There’s two ways you can go with the music of the sardonic Diablo Cody teen-horror comedy made in the vein of “Heathers,” you can make some interesting choices like Ellen Page and Jason Reitman did in “Juno” (yes, indie-rock is mainstream, but the Peaches are still relatively unknown in the scope of things), or you can do a “10 Things I Hate About You” where you include whatever punk-pop flavor of the week (Save Ferris? God the music in that was dreadful).
So far the jury is out on the direction the Karyn Kusama picture will go. We know that that Texas rockers The Sword have been negotiating to have one of their songs in the film and that would be awesome, but then comes news from Absolute Punk that emo, radio-ready alt-punk favorites All Time Low will also be featured in the film (they’re typical, bad credit soundtrack music from terrible teen comdies).
Then again, someone has to write the music for the cheesy and emo-goth anthemic band Soft Shoulder in the film whose Satanic proclivities get characters Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried into the demonic trouble they’re in, in the first place (Adam Brody fronts the Soft Shoulder band in the movie, but we assume he’s not going to be writing the music). Could they be the ones? Might not be a bad guess.
At least that would be more fitting than simply having their banal power-punk in the movie with a straight face. Hopefully the rest of the soundtrack won’t pander to teen comedies cliches as most do, but reports so far don’t sound like the film’s exactly heading in the right direction. But we still hold up hope cause the script was a deliciously fun read.
“Jennifer’s Body” is due in theaters September 18.