The time has come to sing! Or to see the movie Sing. Either way, really, as this new animated comedy from the creators of Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets is all about a musical competition between anthropomorphic animals who are all looking to turn their lives around.
Sing features a large cast of recognizable names (Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, etc.) singing a large number of recognizable songs (“Shake It Off,” “Faith,” “Call Me Maybe,” etc.) but tying it all together is an original score by composer Joby Talbot (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), whose work has already been honored with an Annie Award nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature.
Sing doesn’t premiere in theaters until December 21, and the soundtrack doesn’t come out until tomorrow, December 9, but we wanted to debut these two tracks anyway. It’s a Crave exclusive, a preview of Sing, and we hope you enjoy them!
The Winds of Change:
Rosita’s Invention:
From the Press Release:
Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (McConaughey), a dapper koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal—some might even say delusional—optimist who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now faced with the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.
Five lead contestants emerge: Mike (MacFarlane), a mouse who croons as smoothly as he cons; Meena (Kelly), a timid teenage elephant with an enormous case of stage fright; Rosita (Witherspoon), an overtaxed mother run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets; Johnny (Egerton), a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family’s felonies; and Ash (Johansson), a punk-rock porcupine struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo.
Each arrives under Buster’s marquee believing that this is their shot to change the course of their life. And as Buster coaches each of his contestants closer and closer to the grand finale, he starts to learn that maybe the theater isn’t the only thing that is in need of saving.
