Having trouble reconciling your love for '80s pop music with your passion for hard rock? Have no fear. Not Another Teen Movie to the rescue.
The parody of the teen-flick genre opens Dec. 4 and is accompanied by a soundtrack that looks too good to be true. If Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams" gave you nightmares back in 1995, get ready to lose some sleep once more; this time Manson covers "Tainted Love," which was a top 10 hit for Soft Cell in 1982.
In addition to "Tainted Love," the soundtrack will feature Goldfinger covering Nena's "99 Red Balloons," Saliva's take on the Pretenders' "Message of Love," Mest reworking Modern English's "I Melt With You," Muse taking on the Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want," Good Charlotte playing Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's "If You Leave" and Phantom Planet covering Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby."
Depeche Mode's "But Not Tonight" is covered by Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland and "Never Let Me Down Again" is played by the Smashing Pumpkins. New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" is reworked by Stabbing Westward, and Orgy's version of "Blue Monday" is included as well.
Not Another Teen Movie was directed by Joel Gallen and stars Jaime Pressly, Chyler Leigh and Eric Jungmann. The video for Manson's "Tainted Love" will air on Nov. 19 and the soundtrack to Not Another Teen Movie is scheduled for a Dec. 4 release.
A bit of Marilyn Manson trivia: Manson was approached to score the Hughes brothers' film From Hell, but the deal never went though due to "creative differences" with the production team. A remix of Manson's "Nobodies" is featured in From Hell.
And in other "creative differences" news, guitarist Wes Borland's remix of "Break Stuff," which was supposed to have appeared on Limp Bizkit's remix album New Old Songs, has been cut from the album, due Dec. 4. DJ Lethal, who remixed several songs for the album, said that Borland's remix was "the most drastic" reinterpretation of any Limp Bizkit track that was in consideration for the album. In early October, DJ Lethal called Borland's version of "Break Stuff" one of the album's highlights. Then, in mid-October, Borland left the band, and although the split was touted by the band's management as "amicable," the absence of the remix does not give that impression.
Limp Bizkit is currently searching for a new guitarist and will audition fans to replace Borland and Borland is working with his new band, Eat the Day.
Eat the Day features the same lineup as Borland's last project, Big Dumb Face. Fans who did not like Big Dumb Face's goofy approach to music might be more appreciative of Eat the Day, which according to Borland's spokesperson is a much more serious endeavor. The album is expected in the middle of next year and Eat the Day is expected to tour to support the album before beginning work on the next Big Dumb Face album. Goatslayer, a Borland side project for the past 10 years, will also work on new material next year.
First Trent Reznor announced that the live Nine Inch Nails album would be released on Dec. 4. The he pushed it back to Jan. 22. And now NIN fans have more to wait for, as Reznor announced this week that he's been kicking around ideas for a follow-up to 1999's The Fragile. Reznor will officially begin work on the album after he puts finishing touches on the live album.
"I just kind ofstripped some things down and got back to the core of what I might have started getting away from. But at he moment, it's pretty primitive, stripped-down, minimalist brutal music that's interesting to me," Reznor said. However, while Reznor said that he hopes to have something out by the summer, he followed up with, "Notice I didn't say the year in there." It looks like NIN fans will have to keep waiting - as usual.
