Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack POLL

I don't think "Please Mr. Kennedy" is supposed to be intentionally terrible. Sure, played for laughs but if they were going for intentionally terrible, they wouldn't have had JT on the track. Very thin line that the Coens are treading, I know, but they did it.

I mean, it might be terrible to someone like Llewyn in the movie or even considered terrible at the time but to the audience in 2013, I don't think the song is meant to be aesthetically displeasing.

It's not terrible. It's catchy. There's money in it.

The countdown breakdown toward the end is legitimately exciting.

Clearly you all would do a better job of running a Chicago folk club in 1962 than I would.

It's a cute song, and I'll be generous and say you'd only have to tell about a third of the multiplex audience what this Mr Kennedy and outer space have to do with 1961.

if they were going for intentionally terrible, they wouldn't have had JT on the track

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Rewatching, I think his final cry of his "Grandma Moses" heckle is the key to LD's character: "I HATE FOLK MUSIC!" He wants out the whole week the film chronicles, but he has to leave bloody and battered (while the new boy king plays).

The making-of on the DVD is mostly about the music, but some interesting production design etc (they built the big green bathroom Goodman ODs in cuz they couldn't find anything satisfactory).

oh i guess that shd go in the ILE thread