Charli XCX releases 'Wuthering Heights' album
The British singer says working on her 'Wuthering Heights' album helped her "escape into something new".
The 12-track album Charli XCX created for the 'Wuthering Heights' movie is finally out.
The album debuted alongside the film on Friday, February 13. 'Wuthering Heights' is an adaptation of Emily Brontë's gothic novel of the same name.
The movie, directed by Emerald Fennell, stars 'Barbie' actress Margot Robbie and 'Frankenstein' star Jacob Elordi.
Charli XCX recorded an entire album of original songs for the film, including 'Chains of Love', 'Wall of Sound' and 'House' featuring John Cale'.
The British singer co-wrote all the tracks on the album. "This world allowed me to escape into something new, immerse myself in a story that was not my own," Charli wrote on Instagram.
"I hope when you hear it, it takes you there too.
She also thanked Fennell for trusting her to make songs for her adaptation of one of the greatest love stories of all time.
"I couldn’t have made this album without Finn Keane, Sky Ferreira, Joe Keery, Justin Raisen and of course John Cale. Thank you for your contributions to this album, for your words, your writing, your playing, your production. Collaborating with all of you was a dream come true. Elegant and brutal."
'Wuthering Heights' Reviews
The 'Wuthering Heights' movie is premiering in cinemas in South Africa and across the world just in time for Valentine's Day, February 14.
The film has been met with some backlash. Fans of the book say it strays too far away from Brontë's classic. Some also pointed out that Elordi looks nothing like Heathcliff, who is described as a dark-skinned gypsy.
Robbie's casting also raised eyebrows as Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw is a teenager in the book, while the Australian actress is 35.
Others complained about the movie's overly sexualised marketing, which they say romanticises Cathy and Heathcliff's dark romance.
Fennell has made it clear that she has created her own version of 'Wuthering Heights', which is why it has been described as a loose adaptation.
"When I realised I was going to try and attempt to adapt this Gargaguan book, I felt that the thing that I knew is, I wanted to make something that felt like my own personal emotional response to something, because I sort of knew that I wouldn't be able to exactly recreate this thing that she'd made," she said on the 'Ask Penguin' podcast.
Despite the criticism, early reviews of the movie are positive, and critics expect a massive opening weekend at the box office.
"Sooooo the Emily Bronte girlies like me are gonna eat up #WutheringHeightsMovie with a spoon. The changes Fennell makes to the text make sense. The mess. is. there. Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie make the characters their own," movie critic Kristen Lopez wrote.
BuzzFeed's Natasha Jokic wrote, 'I watched 'Wuthering Heights' to see if it's *that* shocking (sue me, I loved it)."
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