{"id":14420,"date":"2012-02-17T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=14420"},"modified":"2012-02-19T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T17:50:58","slug":"84th-academy-awards-music-original-song-muppets-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2012\/02\/17\/84th-academy-awards-music-original-song-muppets-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"84th Academy Awards: Original Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14389\" title=\"84th Academy Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Oscars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only two contenders up for original song this year, and both are from family movies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAN OR MUPPET from THE MUPPETS (Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This song was used as the official music video for the film and was performed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Segel\">Jason Segel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/muppet.wikia.com\/wiki\/Walter\">Walter the muppet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5iN0QNT6Uk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Muppets Original Soundtrack available on Walt Disney Records and more information is on their official site.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicnotes.com\/sheetmusic\/mtdFPE.asp?ppn=MN0098919\">download the sheet music<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/culture\/2012\/feb\/05\/jason-segel-muppets-film-comedy\">read an Observer profile on Jason Segel here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REAL IN RIO from RIO (Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown \/ Lyric by Siedah Garrett)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the film, this song is divided in two parts: the first is played in the opening sequence and the second is sung in the penultimate \u00a0scene of the film. (On <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_(film)#Soundtrack\">the soundtrack<\/a>, the song is complete).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZ81_Q0lYAM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, they don&#8217;t seem to have made the full track officially available, so I&#8217;ve included the promotional 2 minute clip that the studio released on YouTube back in the Spring.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rio-themovie.com\/\">official website for Rio is here<\/a> and you can <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/wIm45W\">download the score from the iTunes store here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song\">Explore past winners of Best Original Song at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contenders for Best Original Song include Man or Muppet and Real in Rio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,621],"tags":[1976,927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}