And perhaps the finest performance in any version of A Star Is Born: Marta Heflin in the 1976 film. 27 April, 2019 by Britt Stephens. All rights reserved. Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez shines in her totally delightful Netflix comedy Someone Great, written and directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. (Flashback) Just after Jenny and Nate break up. She wants to interview Kris Kristoffersen, so she breaks into his mansion and hides topless in his swimming pool. She’s in the proud tradition of Shelley Duvall in Annie Hall, as the reporter who raves about Dylan and the Maharishi (“it’s transplendent!”) and tells Woody Allen, “Sex with you is a really Kafkaesque experience.” She’s up there with Patrick Fugit in Cameron Crowe’s evergreen Almost Famous. For one thing, it whisked oldies by Lorde and Lizzo (from like, 2017) to the top of the streaming charts. In Netflix's "Someone Great," Jenny knows what songs are trendy — and that includes all the songs in the movie's unforgettable soundtrack. (I’m already hoping there’s a karaoke scene in the sequel.) It’s a chan, If you’re obsessed with K-pop group BLACKPINK’s new Netflix documentary, Blackpink: Light Up The Sky, it’s likely not just because of its addictive s, There Are 17 Absolutely Terrifying Movies On Amazon Prime Right Now, 13 Documentaries To Watch Before The 2020 Election, There Are So Many Scary Movies On Hulu Right Now, 16 Truly Terrifying Documentaries & Where To Find Them. Some of Jessie Reyez's most popular songs include 'DOPE,' which was featured in the Someone Great soundtrack, and 'Great One,' featured in the Someone Great soundtrack. But there’s a catch: she has to move to our office in San Francisco. How else can you explain Lorde's "Supercut". The movie’s full of comic cameos: Rosario Dawson, Jaboukie Young-White, Questlove as the Neon Classic DJ, Michelle Buteau as a stranger who joins Gina for an after-hours subway crying fit. Jessie Reyez performs a LIVE ACOUSTIC VERSION of this in her late night television debut. It feels fresh partly because it gets the emotional details of music fandom so right. The whole vibe is extremely Modern Girls: the lost 1986 mega-cheddar masterpiece starring Daphne Zuniga, Cynthia Gibbs and Virginia Madsen raging all night in L.A., ending with Depeche Mode’s “But Not Tonight” — the perfect use of a perfect song. Or John Travolta in the Eighties classic Perfect — he proves he’s a serious journalist by wearing a tie over a flannel shirt and jeans to interview aerobics guru Jamie Lee Curtis. Congratulations, Gina Rodriguez — you are now one of the coolest fictional Rolling Stone music journalists in movie history. (Present) Jenny looks for Nate in the club; they look at each other across the crowd. Somehow this episode is presented as part of Kris’ downward spiral, rather than “an all-time aspirational peak of Seventies writerly heroism.” It’s a long and noble Hollywood legacy. Should I by Phoebe Ryan Lyrics. It finds clever ways to crush your soul with Mitski or Phoebe Bridgers tunes. Amara decides to focus on her career and work with Young Hollywood. Bedroom scene after Christian and Ana return from the beach to the boat (Fair Lady) by jetski. 'Lovecraft Country' Creator Misha Green on Bold Storytelling and the Season Finale, ‘Lovecraft Country’ Creator Misha Green on Bold Storytelling and the Season Finale, Watch Miley Cyrus Cover Cranberries’ ‘Zombie’ for Save Our Stages Festival. Gina stars as a New York music critic who gets her dream job writing for Rolling Stone. Copyright 2020 Tunefind LLC. Some of Jessie Reyez's most popular songs include 'DOPE,' which was featured in the, Fifty Shades Freed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Refreshing, to say the least. In everybody’s favorite scene, she gets ambushed by Selena’s “Dreaming of You” in the corner store and has no choice but to sing into her string-cheese microphone. Her boyfriend LaKeith Stanfield dumps her. It’s tragically relatable. 66.4K 19. Coming out of commercial break, montage into everyone preparing to leave for the Be The Match fundraiser. Someone Great is packed with fantastic songs by everyone from Big Freedia to Ryn Weaver, and for these friends, every messy moment of their lives has a soundtrack. Gina Rodriguez takes her place in the pantheon of Rolling Stone writers in the movies — she might be a mess and a half, but that probably just makes her a more accurate depiction. Some of Jessie Reyez's most popular songs include 'DOPE,' which was featured in the Someone Great soundtrack, and 'Great One,' featured in the Someone Great soundtrack. Transition montage back to Crazy Horse, strippers onstage, Jenn, Pauly texting. Every Trendy Song On Netflix Someone Great Soundtrack, With the new film The Trial of the Chicago 7, writer and director Aaron Sorkin tells many of us might not know about at all — but a select group remember, This story contains spoilers for The Trial of the Chicago 7, available to stream on Netflix October 16. When Barbra Streisand catches them in bed together, she responds by deciding to interview Barbara about it, so she just turns on her trusty tape recorder. At the house, Jenny cries to Snooki and Deena. Everyone prepares for bed and Georgia and Sam cuddle on the sofa. Their idea of a good time is arguing about the Postal Service in bars. We see the couple’s fourth-anniversary playlist, with familiar classics (Otis Redding, J. Dilla) but also left-field picks like Sam Cooke’s 1957 ballad “I’ll Come Running to You.” On her wall, Gina has posters of amazing punk bands like Downtown Boys and LVL UP. Sign up for our newsletter. Lorde’s “Supercut” gets used brilliantly in a heart-puncturing sequence where Gina relives moments from her broken relationship. 'Someone Great' stars Gina Rodriguez in the lead role of Rolling Stone music writer Jenny. Someone Great dropped on Netflix this weekend, with basically zero advance fanfare, and hit a nerve. (It works!) Ahead is the full soundtrack to Netflix's newest break-up rom-com — as well as some more suggestions that would be totally Jenny-approved. In This Article: gina rodriguez, Lizzo, Lorde, Netflix. (Founder and publisher Jann S. Wenner makes his acting debut as fictional RS editor Mark Roth.). Can you even imagine being that cool? Someone Great dropped on Netflix this weekend, with basically zero advance fanfare, and hit a nerve. Who among us, right? © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Don’t sign any leases, Gina.) Even Greater. Like all magazine writers in movies, Gina has her own apartment the size of McCarren Park, except hers has a kitchen shrine to David Bowie circa Young Americans. Jessie Reyez Biography Jessica Reyez (born June 12, 1991) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. (Nobody told her it closed in 1977, when the magazine moved to NYC? Recap of all the performances of Michael Dameski and The Lab. As Wise declares after one of their dressing-up montages, gazing into the mirror, “I am deeply obsessed with us right now!”. Who immediately seduces him, because 1985. In addition to everything else Someone Great is — a break-up comedy, a killer soundtrack, a girls-together-outrageously romp — it’s a movie about music fans, people who live their lives and suffer and fuck up and bond and grieve while obsessing over their favorite songs. 251,700 songs76,600 artists100,800 episodes, movies and games, The Internet’s best source for music from TV and movies since 2005. We want to hear from you! Music by Jessie Reyez has been featured in the Black Is King soundtrack and All Rise soundtrack. Great One by Jessie Reyez Lyrics. A moment in a bodega where you hear a Selena ballad on the radio and get triggered into a humiliating meltdown, singing along so weepily you can never show your face there again? ‘Fargo’ Recap: Rules Are Made to Be Broken, Ice Cube Tries to Explain What in the Hell He Was Thinking, Mariah Carey’s Diva Lit Masterpiece: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Not Knowing Her, ‘Kid A’ at 20: Why Radiohead’s Futuristic Masterpiece Sounds Right on Time, Emmys 2020: The PandEmmys, Even Better Than the Real Thing. Nobody in the movie feels neurotic about this, or makes speeches worrying whether there’s something weird in caring about music too much. Coco and Kurt talk after their Wednesday "meeting". Want more Rolling Stone? Send us a tip using our anonymous form. But Someone Great definitely lives up to it. 17K 20. Jessie performs in the club; Jenny sees Nate. Someone Great Soundtrack Someone Great Is Great, but the Soundtrack? ‘Lovecraft Country’ Finale Recap: Spells and Prayers and Potions, Oh My! Song previews courtesy of Apple Music, iTunes and Spotify. Her BFFs DeWanda Wise (from She’s Gotta Have It) and Brittany Snow decide they must console their girl with one last all-night rampage through the city, crashing an A-list bash called the Neon Classic. There’s a melancholy sex scene to Mitski’s “Your Best American Girl,” which has never sounded sadder. One of the gals hooks up with a sketchy publicist dude for VIP wristbands, telling him, “That was not GA intercourse!” RuPaul has a scene-stealing moment as the ladies’ drug dealer/therapist. Most of the action in The Trial of the Chicago 7, At the end of the new Disney+ movie Clouds, real home movie footage of Zach Sobiech and his friends and family plays through the credits.