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The song was recorded as a duet by Meat Loaf and Marion Raven for the 2006 album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, produced by Desmond Child. Raven had been working on her solo album with Child, and was chosen because the timbre of her voice starkly contrasts to Meat Loaf's. [ 106 ]
The filmmakers deliberately aimed to give their film a 1980s look and feel, reminiscent of releases by Amblin Entertainment during that era. [4] Keen described Meat Loaf as "generous and professional" throughout the shoot; [4] Meat Loaf and co-star Rick Howland boosted the morale of cast and crew by breaking into musical numbers between takes. [4]
The site's critical consensus reads, "As visually sumptuous as it is narratively spartan, Terrence Malick's Song to Song echoes elements of the writer-director's recent work—for better and for worse." [3] On Metacritic the film holds a rating of 55 out of 100, based on 34 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [33]
It is set during the French Revolution and is written as a letter from an exiled French nobleman who recounts what he has seen in France. The story focuses on a fictional noblewoman, Blanche de la Force, who sympathises with the martyrs of Compiègne—a group of Carmelite nuns—as they are brought to the scaffold by the revolutionaries.
The song opens with a guitar played to sound like a revving motorcycle. Roy Bittan's piano begins to play along with the guitars and drums. The vocals begin at the 1:50 point. The opening vocals are accompanied by piano and backing vocals. The song then becomes much louder as the band, predominantly piano, plays the main melody for twenty seconds.
Nathan Rabin reviewed the film favorably for its DVD release, writing, "Rudolph's predilection for the lush glamour of classic films might make him an odd director for a Meat Loaf vehicle, but 1980's Roadie (just released on a no-frills DVD) is a marriage made in heaven rather than the shotgun wedding it initially appears to be".
The song "Sweet Thursday" from California singer/songwriter Matt Costa's 2006 release Songs We Sing is an allusion to the work. The song also incorporates aspects of other Steinbeck works including Tortilla Flat (1935) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939). British supergroup Sweet Thursday (band) named themselves after the novel.
A concept album, Songs from Whistle Down the Wind, was released in 1998 in advance of the show's West End premiere. It features 12 of the songs from the show performed by various popular recording artists and West End theatre stars who have collaborated with Lloyd Webber and Steinman over the years.