Great Gatsby Soundtrack

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The first song I picked was for the party at Gatsby's house for chapter 1-3.I picked a new song for this because it’s a party you need very lively music. In G-Eazy’s song “Me, Myself and I”, He talks about how he’s at a party but he just wants to be alone with one person. I think this would be good for the party scene because he is throwing the parties of the hope that one day Daisy will show up. A line from the the song is “It changes now that I'm famous. Everyone knows how this lifestyle is dangerous”This would foreshadow, that people only came to the parties because they wanted to leach off of him.“They all take the money for granted but don't want to work for it, now tell me isn’t funny” . A line from Jordan
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The song is “Everybody Loves My Baby” that was written by Jack Palmer. “Everybody loves my baby but my baby don't love nobody, but me nobody but me”. I think it would fit maybe even the tea scene because this his how Gatsby saw his and Daisy’s relationship. Along with the scene where Gatsby Tells Daisy to tell Tom that she never loved him. He had it in his head that he was the only one she had ever loved, whiched she confessed not to be true. I believe this song would be good for the soundtrack because it was made in the 1920’s. The last song I chose was a song was a song by Billie Holiday called “God Bless The Child”. This song would play just loud enough in the background you hear it. “Besides the owl-eyed man, Nick, and Gatsby's dad, no one comes to the funeral. Is it the rain? Or is the heartless, selfish crowd who was happy to come to the feast but won't come to the funeral?” This ties in very well with one of the song lyrics that goes “Money, you've got lots of friends They're crowding around your door, but when you're gone and spending ends, they don't come no more.” It almost explains in perfectly. It conveys the mood of everyone who went to the parties even lived in his house and maybe even the women he thought was the love of his life, thought he was great because of his amount of money. Once he was dead it cannot be spent on the parties they all loved going

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