Gwen Stefani, Jeff Tweedy Lead Amazon’s ‘Fun’ Soundtrack

Gwen Stefani, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent and Sharon Van Etten have all contributed unique tracks to the Amazon MGM vacation film Oh. What. Fun., which can premiere Dec. 3. An accompanying soundtrack is out the identical day from Sony Music Masterworks.

Directed by Michael Showalter, Oh. What. Fun. stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a household matriarch by chance separated from her household throughout the holidays. The solid contains Felicity Jones, Chloë Grace Moretz, Denis Leary, Dominic Sessa, Danielle Brooks, Devery Jacobs, Havana Rose Liu, Maude Apatow, Jason Schwartzman, Eva Longoria and Joan Chen.

Following Stefani’s “Shake the Snow Globe,” which got here out final week, the following music from the venture is Van Etten’s tackle the Pretenders’ 1983 single “2000 Miles,” which many years later nonetheless typically re-enters the U.Ok. charts across the vacation season.

“I connected deeply with the underlying narrative from the mother’s perspective in this film,” says Van Etten. “As a mother myself, I resonated with the constant seeking of perfection and the expectations that holidays inherently bring. It reignited the compassion I hold for my mother and mothers everywhere who aspire to provide a place for their families to feel loved, appreciated, needed and relevant.” As for her Pretenders cowl, she says, “I tried to honor Chrissie Hynde’s version by collaborating with my band, the Attachment Theory. I hope if the Pretenders hear it, they feel our appreciation and love for Chrissie, the band and this song.”

Also featured on the soundtrack is Tweedy’s cowl of the Band’s “Christmas Must Be Tonight,” of which he says, “the Band pulled off the impossible. They wrote a Christmas song that’s joyful and appropriate for the occasion while being strange, emotional and poetic. Who else would call baby Jesus ‘the little stranger?’ To me, this song gets at what this season is about, at its best: the light. ‘Mary carried the light.’ How are we making ourselves a light to each other? How do I bring light into my life? I start with a song like this.”

Elsewhere, St. Vincent takes on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” Fleet Foxes cowl the late Elliott Smith’s “Angel in the Snow” and the chook and the bee recast 10cc’s “The Things We Do for Love.”

“My favorite Christmas songs have an underlying sense of melancholy mixed in with the warmth of their familiarity,” St. Vincent’s Annie Clark opines. “Sung by a person who is presumably alone, ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’ is a prime example: ’Next year all our troubles will be out of sight’… the holiday season and its festivities are a temporary refuge, a reprieve after a shitty year. Hopefully the year to come will be better.”

Here is the soundtrack for Oh. What. Fun.:

“Shake the Snow Globe” by Gwen Stefani
“The Things We Do for Love” by the chook and the bee
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” by St. Vincent
“2000 Miles” by Sharon Van Etten
“Angel in the Snow” by Fleet Foxes
“Step Into Christmas” by Uwade
“Silent Night” by The Wang Family
“Hot Cocoa” by Gwen Stefani
“Snowqueen of Texas” by Weyes Blood
“Christmas Eve Can Kill You” by Andy Shauf and Madi Diaz
“It’s My Life” by the chook and the bee
“Christmas Must Be Tonight” by Jeff Tweedy
“Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” by Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of)
“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” by The Wang Family
“The 12 Days of Christmas” by Dominic Sessa