A couple of months ago, news came out that Jay-Z was going to executive produce the soundtrack for The Great Gatsby: From there we knew this thing was going to be special.
We couldn’t have been any more right.
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Snippets for nearly every song on the soundtrack has been released. We say almost every song because, unfortunately, a preview of Beyoncé and Andre 3000’s cover of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” hasn’t been released yet. (Wahhhhhh.)
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The soundtrack is pretty diverse, featuring every genre from pop (will.i.am) to rap (Q-Tip) to rock (the Detroit homie Jack White).
That boy Hov got a hell of an ear. Listen to the snippets above.
- 1) “Bang Bang” – Will.i.am
- 2) “A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” – Fergie, Q Tip and GoonRock
- 3) “Young and Beautiful” – Lana Del Rey
- 4) “Love Is the Drug” – Bryan Ferry with the Bryan Ferry Orchestra
- 5) “Over the Love” – Florence and the Machine
- 6) “Where the Wind Blows” – Coco O. of Quadron
- 7) “Crazy in Love” – Emeli Sandé and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra
- 8) “Together” – the xx
- 9) “Hearts a Mess” – Gotye
- 10) “Love Is Blindness” – Jack White
- 11) “Into the Past” – Nero
- 12) “Kill and Run” – Sia
