SONGS FROM SPARKLE 2012 MOVIE
SONGS FROM SPARKLE 2012 DOWNLOAD

The official music video for 'Celebrate' was filmed on May 30, 2012. Whitney Houston's other track, 'His Eye is On the Sparrow', debuted only one day after the premiere of 'Celebrate'.

SONGS FROM SPARKLE 2012 DOWNLOAD

The song premiered on On Air with Ryan Seacrest on and was made available for digital download on iTunes on June 5. The soundtrack's first official lead single is the last song recorded by Whitney Houston before she died on February 11, 2012, a duet with R&B/pop singer and American Idol winner Jordin Sparks on a song called 'Celebrate'. The film's soundtrack includes new recordings of four songs from the original film's soundtrack as well as new original music by Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston and Cee Lo Green. The album was released through Sony Music Entertainment's RCA Records on July 31, 2012. Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the 2012 Sony/TriStar Pictures film Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name.

SONGS FROM SPARKLE 2012 MOVIE

While Huston’s death was an undeniable tragedy, that doesn’t make this movie any less pedestrian, and while I’ll happily enjoy the singer’s music far into the foreseeable future, here’s hoping I don’t have to think about this film or her involvement in it ever again. What I will say is that while her performance as a bitter mother desperately trying to keep her daughters from repeating her own mistakes isn’t an embarrassment, I also can’t say she makes a particularly memorable impression. Sparkle will be talked about more because of Huston than it will for anything else, her recent death unquestionably going to be the center of any conversation that ends up happening about the film. Potential to emotionally resonate vanish into this sonically maddening ether with Volume is pushed way past 11 to an ear-shattering decibel that amplifies theįilm’s maudlin mediocrity, and even the one or two quiet moments with the Pulling restraint or subtlety as far as the bigger picture is concerned. Including Sparks, delivering their lines with conviction. No one gives a bad performance, all of the actors, Listened, which is unfortunate because the pieces for a reasonably entertaining

Did anyone at all think to themselves that less in the case of Sparkle’s triumphant moment might be more? Were there conversations that going over the top with a lot of unnecessary theatrics might call attention away from the innate power of the moment and instead bring back memories of Sparks beating out Blake Lewis for the long-running reality television show’s 2007 crown? I bring up “American Idol” for a reason, not because Jordan Sparks was the sixth season winner (making comparisons to Academy Award-winning season four also-ran Jennifer Hudson practically inevitable), but because of the way the final concert is shot, executed and staged. Having no apparent meaning, events leading to a foregone conclusion that’s as In the end time, circumstance, character and continuity Slapping the viewer across the face when a subtle caress would have been a heck TheĪkils present this story with a turgid dogmatism that’s close to insulting, continually All of this is present none of it is interesting. The heartbreak and bitter aftertaste ofĭreams left unfulfilled. Much all of this story a billion times before. Themselves into their respective characters’ self-destructive pursuits withĬonviction, making their tragedy to come at least somewhat compelling by their Is acted with passion by Ejogo and Epps, their scenes delivered with anĮlectricity of purpose the majority of the picture sadly lacks. A subplot involving Sister and Satin, while trite and unoriginal, Left me feeling bruised, battered and bludgeoned, and the glorious soundtrackĪside there was hardly a single part of it I ended up enjoying. Of show-stopping musical moments, this is still a nearly two-hour mess that Slog of clichés, facile melodrama and missed opportunities. Mess, the film going the Dreamgirls meets A Star is Born routeīut never in a way that feels fresh or imaginative. Dramatically and structurally, this remake is a Sounds that make the body enthusiastically move and groove even while sitting quietly Musically this was a wise idea, their film filled with pulsating rhythms and In time, setting their story right in the middle of the Motown explosion. (“The Game”) have transported their version of Sparkle even further back ( Jumping the Broom) and his screenwriter wife Mara Brock Akil Musical starring Irene Cara and Philip Michael Thomas, director Salim Akil Stardom before they even achieve liftoff. The potential to bring down the group and destroy Sparkle’s dreams of musical Struthers ( Mike Epps), their abusively destructive relationship having

But Sister has also engendered the affections of comedian Satin Young women catching the eye of a Columbia Records executive ( CurtisĪrmstrong). Quickly the trio’s star is on the rise, the

All three ladies to form a group with Sister as the lead and Sparkle

Songs from sparkle 2012