Notes & Personnel Info |  | Producers include: Rob Fusari, The Co-Stars, Alex Gifford, Guy Roche, Pete Craigie. | | Suppose you had the responsibility for assembling music for a motion picture, and you were told that the film was a comedy set among high school students competing in a cheerleading contest, with a largely white squad pitted against a largely black one? Your approach would be obvious, wouldn't it? You would divide the tracks up between contemporary teen pop and contemporary R&B, and you would look for songs that borrowed from cheerleading chants, right? If so, you probably would come up with something that sounded a lot like Bring It On's "music from the motion picture" album. (Actually, one track, 3LW's "'Til I Say So," is not from the film.) Among the teen pop entries, the most prominent is B*witched's cover of the Toni Basil hit "Mickey," which recreates its cheerleader sound, while the obvious emphasis track among the R&B songs is Blaque's "As If," presented in two versions, one of them featuring Joey Fatone Jr. Ideally, these songs will march up their respective charts, to be followed by selections from such less well-known peers as Sygnature ("2 Can Play") and sister2sister ("What's a Girl to Do"). That may occur, but the actual music supervisor of Bring It On never went beyond the obvious (and the available), and little of the album is distinguishable from current trends. The exception is Daphne & Celeste's "U.G.L.Y.," a cheerleader anthem derived from the kind of outrageous put-downs Bo Diddley used to put in his songs, which has a real spark and could be a novelty hit that could go down in high school history. ~ William Ruhlmann | | Suppose you had the responsibility for assembling music for a motion picture, and you were told that the film was a comedy set among high school students competing in a cheerleading contest, with a largely white squad pitted against a largely black one? Your approach would be obvious, wouldn't it? You would divide the tracks up between contemporary teen pop and contemporary R&B, and you would look for songs that borrowed from cheerleading chants, right? If so, you probably would come up with something that sounded a lot like Bring It On's "music from the motion picture" album. (Actually, one track, 3LW's "'Til I Say So," is not from the film.) Among the teen pop entries, the most prominent is B*witched's cover of the Toni Basil hit "Mickey," which recreates its cheerleader sound, while the obvious emphasis track among the R&B songs is Blaque's "As If," presented in two versions, one of them featuring Joey Fatone Jr. ~ William Ruhlmann | | Bubblegum pop, new original flavor. BRING IT ON is the perfect complement to a movie about cheerleading. There are two versions here of "As If" by Blaque, one opening and one closing the soundtrack--the former features Joey Fatone, Jr. B'Witched performs one of the mandatory cheerleading selections, the immortal Toni Basil's "Mickey." The other is the ultimate putdown "U.G.L.Y.," performed here by the movie's two main cheerleaders, Daphne and Celeste. | | With laser beam accuracy in pinpointing the psyche of the 21st century American teenage girl, BRING IT ON is chock full of upbeat, cheer routine-inspiring tunes. Who knew you could do a triple somersault to the Jungle Brothers? |
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