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Song of the Daty #6,047: ‘One Less Lonely Girl’ – Maisy Stella

I’ll have more to say about My Old Ass when I get to my favorite 2024 movies, but for now I’ll call out one of its most amusing moments — a mushroom-induced hallucination that finds lead character Elliott (Maisy Stella) performing a Justin Bieber song with full choreography.

A previous mushroom trip led to Elliott meeting her older self (played by Aubrey Plaza), and she hopes this one will have the same result. Instead, she ends up fulfilling a childhood fantasy of bestowing a lucky audience member with a rose while singing ‘One Less Lonely Girl.’

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Song of the Day #6,046: ‘Say No Go’ – De La Soul

My next 2024 music selection comes from a movie that stirred up quite a bit of controversy before it was even released. During a contentious election season, some people thought Alex Garland’s Civil War would encourage bad actors to start a real one.

It turns out the film was less about real world tensions and more about the journalists who capture horrifying images of war — to inform the public, but also for the grim fix it provides them.

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Song of the Day #6,045: ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ – Bonnie Tyler

I couldn’t find a clip of my next 2024 movie music moment, but I think it’s worth acknowledging anyway.

Jamie Lee Curtis has taken a lot of crap over the last couple of years, at least in online circles, for openly campaigning for awards. Her efforts earned her a goodwill Oscar win for a decent performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once, and they might land her a nomination in the same category tomorrow morning for her work in The Last Showgirl.

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Song of the Day #6,044: ‘I Wanna Get Next to You’ – Adam Pearson

My next musical moment in a 2004 movie comes from A Different Man, a darkly comic film about Edward (Sebastian Stan), a man with a serious facial deformity who receives a revolutionary treatment that makes him look… like Sebastian Stan.

He assumes a new identity and does his best to enjoy the life he denied his former self, but can’t shake his deep insecurity. The problem is compounded when he meets Oswald (Adam Pearson), a man with an even more severe facial deformity, but a confidence and swagger Edward could never begin to achieve.

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Song of the Day #6,043: ‘Blood on White Satin’ – Skye Riley

Today begins my traditional six-week focus on the previous year’s best movies. In a couple of weeks, I’ll name my personal picks for the top Oscar categories and count down my favorite movies of the year.

But first, I’ll spend two weeks honoring some of my favorite musical moments in the films of 2024. I stayed away from actual musicals, though four of my selections (including today’s) come from movies about musicians.

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