Advice: what's a killer track for a makeup artist's reel?

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Help. I need inspiration coming up with a track to accompany a makeup artists reel I am editing. The video is lots of clips of faces and scenes from ads and music videos so the theme would be making people look good...

I was thinking Kraftwerk - The Model. Any other suggestions?

― gonzales, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Madonna -- Dress You Up

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 14 March 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

Soft Pink Truth - "Make Up"

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 14 March 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

"I Need a Face," by the Muffs. Alternately, "Total Eclipse of the Heart," that's good for anything.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Gotan Project, why not everybody else uses it

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

The obvious choice would be an instrumental uptempo standard American house track.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

That would also be the lame choice.

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

which Gotan Project?

― gonzales, Monday, 14 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed - Make Up

*giggles*

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Serious answer: yes, Gotan Project or Air or Royksopp or some other form of smooth downtempo easy-to-like electronics. For something very up-to-date, how about Brazilian Girls? Not the one that goes "pussy pussy pussy marijuana," and not "Don't Stop," which has the potential to actually get "big," but one of the other ones.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

It would also depend on the audience. Is it for someone in NYC or London or Des Moines, etc.

Also Jimmy, thanks I love you too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Seriously though... maybe "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)" by Garbage?

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

*blushes*

xxxpost

― Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (ModJ), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Like I said, that was the just the obvious choice. Also, I'd be careful about something too downtempo. This is commercial afterall.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

There should definitely be a breeziness about it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

Air - Kelly Watch the Stars

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

audience is hollywood production peole - ads, commercials, TV...

― gonzales, Monday, 14 March 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Ah, then something they hear on KCRW.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

no doubt, "magic's in the makeup"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

or for obvious old-timey r&b irony:
benny spellman, "lipstick traces (on a cigarette)"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

For big-on old-style glamour you could put on the original "Whatever Lola Wants", not the Gotan Proj remix, cause ppl would recognize it but somehow it would some even more "authentic"

I was thinkin of "Epoca" or "Santa Maria (Del Buen Ayre)" - they are kinda overused in my opinion though, especially for people who watch Fashion TV!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Vitamin C - I Know What Boys Like

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Girls on Film

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

Vitamin C - I Know What Boys Like

Skip that sickly soma-tinged pabulum and go for the original by the Waitresses.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:29 (twenty years ago)

thank you thank you

what about something more classic sounding like Frnk Sinatra?

― gonzales, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

"you make me feel so young"?

― DI, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

by...

― gonzales, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

frank?

― gonzales, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Leonard Cohen, "Don't Go Home With our Hard-On."

Seriously, I second the Gotan project. It's perfectly inoffensive and vaguely hip; Hollywood typse will pat themselves on the back for recognizing what it is.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Not a very original answer, but I think "Fashion" works nicely. Either that or the "Liquid Sky" soundtrack.

....on second thought, maybe not.

― Adam Bruneau (oliver8bit), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

The Make Up "How Pretty Can U Get"

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Madonna -- Dress You Up

-- Jimmy Mod Has Returned With Spices And Silks (Mod...), March 14th, 2005.

OTM! that was the first song to come into my mind when i saw the thread title.

― latebloomer: damn cheapskate satanists (latebloomer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Rupaul - Supermodel (you better work!)

guh, i can't stop singing this song in my head now

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

Scissor Sisters, "Filthy Gorgeous"

or that one by Bette Midler that goes "I'm beautiful! I'm beautiful! I'm beautiful, dammit!"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

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