The Love Actually soundtrack is a feast for the ears, from Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" that makes you cry for Emma Thompson to The Beach Boys ’s “God Only Knows” makes you believe, if only for a moment, that the airport really is a beautiful place. place.
But when I revisit the film's beautiful "Glasgow Love Theme" on Spotify, there's one song from the soundtrack that always escapes me: "Too Lost in You" by the Sugababes.
Did I miss something? I could never pinpoint where the British girl group's song was played in the movie until I searched online and discovered that the song didn't exist in the movie. At least, not in the version I know of.
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Alas, this is not the Christmas version of the Mandela Effect. The reason I never heard "So Lost in You" in my many rewatches of Love Actually is because I've only seen the American cut of the movie.
If this is you, then you're used to the work party scenes in Kelly Clarkson's The Trouble with Love, in which Harry (Alan Rickman) meets his employee Mia (Heck Makaki) dances while his wife Karen (Emma Thompson) watches anxiously from a distance.
But it turns out that in the British version of the movie, it was the "Sugababes" song that played.
So why is every version of the song different? Right Music founder Kirsten Lane, who served as a musical consultant on Love Actually , remembers international cuts as a way to reach audiences on both coasts of the United States.
"At the time, sugar babies were very popular in the UK and Kelly Clarkson was very popular in the US," she said. "I think it would be more suitable for local audiences if different versions had different tracks."
Lane explains that it's not often that music changes a scene in such a radical way. Thankfully, in the case of Love Actually , both tracks work very well. But Lane noted that it does give the prompt a "different feel."
The scene becomes darker
Watching the scene with a different song also unlocks a new layer of meaning. Clarkson's "The Trouble with Love" describes the attraction of romance and how, despite its tumultuous ups and downs, you can't escape it.
And "So Lost in You" revolves around that all-consuming emotion, but it's slightly more sinister - specifically illustrating Harry and Mia's romance with anxious lyrics like "I can't help myself/I can't break the spell" and "You whisper to me/I Trembling” inside. "
While many fans are used to the American version, the British version's use of "Too Lost in You" deserves a big thumbs up. The song, written by Diane Warren, aligns with Harry's choice to give in to lust and hurt his family in the process.
Surprise after the end credits...
"Love Actually" is a bit like the cast of "Avengers: Endgame" - it has a lot of big British names in its cast. Just like a Marvel movie, when the credits roll, you'll want to stick around.
In the American version, you can hear "Too Lost in You" in the last minute of the credits, and the same applies to Clarkson's song in the British version. So, these songs weren't completely omitted.
