It was the 20th anniversary of ThePrincessDiaries on Thursday! See how the soundtrack helped make the movie sing.
Based on the YA novels by Meg Cabot, Disney's follows socially awkward San Francisco teen Mia Thermopolis as she discovers she's the princess of a European country called Genovia — and its heir apparent. What ensues is chaos as she tries to manage normal life — high school politics, her friends, romance — with her royal one. For Anne Hathaway, this would be her breakout role and launch her career as a Hollywood A-lister.
It was also important that the soundtrack catered to its audience: teen girls. While songs were meant to be trendy and radio-friendly, tonally, they couldn't be risqué: They had to match the Disney aesthetic and the film's ethos. In concepting the soundtrack, the music had to be"peppy" per Marshall's instructions, recalls Soler.
Two decades later, it's the inspiring pop moments that stand out for Soler. Her favorite musical scene in the film remains Myra's"Miracles Happen ""because it was a song from the ground-up." As Mia goes from the ballroom to a private plane on her way to Genovia, the joyful anthem bursting with sparkling piano follows her and memorably concludes the film. The song was written for the movie and had a long shelf life — in, it was featured in Chinese.
It's also impossible to ignore the impact of Robert Schwartzman -- who played Mia's love interest Michael -- his band Rooney and their single"Blueside" throughout the film. Rooney's brand of California pop-guitar rock surfaced just as The Strokes were finding fame with."'Blueside' is a throwback song," Schwartzman says."It has a '60s British Invasion kind of a sound to it." As a rock revolution was brewing, so was an interest in Rooney.
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