In The Thought of You, Anne Hathaway performs Solene, a single mom who has a romance with singer Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). Hayes is a member of the fictional boy band August Moon and performs their songs within the movie. Songwriter Savan Kotecha, who additionally wrote “What Makes You Lovely” for One Route and “One Extra Night time” for Maroon 5, wrote August Moon songs like he would any real-life recording artist.
“We actually wished it to really feel actual,” Kotecha mentioned throughout a panel dialog at Deadline’s Sound & Display music showcase on Friday. “Within the film, you would need to consider that this band is actual. In creating the songs, I didn’t wish to write film songs. I wished these songs to be aggressive.”
It labored. The soundtrack album for the Amazon MGM Studios movie has had greater than 100 million downloads, and Kotecha revealed that some within the music business assumed August Moon was actual.
“Humorous sufficient, a number of the songs began getting radio play,” Kotecha mentioned. “Radio stations have been like, ‘We want the band. The place’s the band?”
August Moon did dwell once more. After the discharge of The Thought of You, the forged recorded another track that Kotecha wrote.
“There’s a track known as “So Chilly” that got here out after the film that we recorded for August Moon,” Kotecha mentioned. “It’s an August Moon track. That was put on the market for the followers as a result of they have been so nice with this complete marketing campaign and making the band really feel actual.”
Kotecha labored with director Michael Showalter in creating the songs and observing the casting course of. Galitzine stood out among the many different contenders.
“That man may very well be a pop star if he wished to in a day,” Kotecha mentioned. “After I heard Nick’s voice, it was similar to listening to any of the massive artists I labored with. He has a implausible tone. Eric Vetro labored with him, this wonderful vocal coach that simply helped stretch him extra. It was only a useful gizmo to color with.”
Kotecha mentioned “What Makes You Lovely” was impressed by his spouse after they first met. For August Moon, he took inspiration from the story of the movie.
“I really like this love story within the film and I really like that he was keen to attend for her and undergo something for her and quit his desires for her,” Kotecha mentioned. “It was actually their relationship that impressed it.”
Test again Monday for the panel video.
