Save The Last Dance Original Soundtrack

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She moves to the South Side to live with her estranged father Roy, a jazz musician who plays the trumpet at nightclubs. While performing, Derek's ex-girlfriend Nikki interrupts them and begins dancing with Derek, making Sara retreat to the bar. On the US Billboard Mainstream Top 40, it was a number-four hit and on the US Billboard Hot 100, it peaked at number eleven. Featuring fredro starr and jill scott lucy pearl snoop dogg and qtip x2c kci jojo pnk donell jones kevon edmonds chaka demus pliers ice cube.

In a three-star review, Roger Ebert said that despite the film's clichéd story and romance, "the development is intelligent, the characters are more complicated than we expect, and the ending doesn't tie everything up in a predictable way. A sequel to the film, titled Save the Last Dance 2, was released direct-to-video on October 10, 2006. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills. Soundtracks don’t outperform their accompanying films that often, but in 1998, Def Jam’s Rush Hour soundtrack came close.

Derek takes a reluctant Sara to the Joffrey Ballet and, afterwards, she confides in him about her mother and her dreams. Yet in this case the outline is not the story; the people who inhabit it are," and in this way, " Save the Last Dance triumphantly passes the audition. It features contributions from Angela Ammons, Audrey Martells, Blaqout, Fatman Scoop, Jesse Powell, J. Sean Patrick Thomas also became the recipient of the 2001 Young Hollywood Awards for Standout Performance – Male. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 53% approval rating based on 100 reviews, with an average score of 5.

The rap song, (Bonafide), was performed by X-2-C as the third track leading into the soundtrack of Save the Last Dance. Starring Julia Stiles as Sara Johnson and Sean Patrick Thomas as Derek Reynolds, this couple from Chicago work together to train Julia’s character for a dance audition at Juilliard School. Since then, this song has become certified platinum with the United Kingdom’s British Phonographic Industry (BPI), as well as gold with the USA’s RIAA. In the movie, when Julia Stiles dances as Sara Johnson, the soul and emotion Athena Cage puts into the song, (All or Nothing), seemed to sum up the desired mood the scene in the movie had portrayed.In the video, Gilliam was shown as the female focus in the video, keeping the group’s balance intact. Later, Chenille tells Sara that she did not approve of the fight, but can understand the bitterness since Sara, a white girl, is "stealing" one of the decent black boys at school.

The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help Stiles' character train for a Juilliard School dance audition. We are sure Stiles worked really hard to learn the choreography for this scene and she deserves to be commended for her efforts—especially since the actress had no previous dance experience prior to the film and still did most of the dancing herself. Lucy Pearl, as a supergroup, replaced its former member, Dawn Robinson, with Joi Gilliam, but the lead vocals were performed by Raphael Saadiq.

She also tells Derek that Sara did not want to dump him, but Chenille's words hurt her to the point of feeling forced to. Save The Last Dance went both gold and platinum on January 29, 2001, and was certified 2x multi-platinum on May 20, 2002. That figure makes the fine arts school harder to get into than Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. It was also featured on the Save the Last Dance Soundtrack and was noted for using auto-tune in its music style long before it became popularized in the music industry. Sara also transfers to a majority-black high school, where she is one of a handful of white students, but quickly befriends Chenille Reynolds, a teenage single mother who is having relationship problems with her ex-boyfriend Kenny.