Save The Last Dance Original Soundtrack

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The rap song, (Bonafide), was performed by X-2-C as the third track leading into the soundtrack of Save the Last Dance. Starring Julia Stiles as Sara Johnson and Sean Patrick Thomas as Derek Reynolds, this couple from Chicago work together to train Julia’s character for a dance audition at Juilliard School. While performing, Derek's ex-girlfriend Nikki interrupts them and begins dancing with Derek, making Sara retreat to the bar. Derek arrives at a crucial point in Sara's performance to offer her encouragement and moral support. Sean Patrick Thomas also became the recipient of the 2001 Young Hollywood Awards for Standout Performance – Male.

She moves to the South Side to live with her estranged father Roy, a jazz musician who plays the trumpet at nightclubs. Derek meets up with Malakai and does his best to dissuade him from carrying out the attack, but Malakai refuses. Seventeen-year-old Sara Johnson, a promising ballet dancer in suburban Chicago, hopes to be admitted to Juilliard School and implores her mother to attend the audition. On the UK Dance Singles Chart, Breathe and Stop was a number one hit and it was a number twelve hit on its UK Singles Chart. Though the film had a 44% decline in earnings the following weekend, it was still enough to keep the film at the top spot for another week.Sara also transfers to a majority-black high school, where she is one of a handful of white students, but quickly befriends Chenille Reynolds, a teenage single mother who is having relationship problems with her ex-boyfriend Kenny. In the movie, when Julia Stiles dances as Sara Johnson, the soul and emotion Athena Cage puts into the song, (All or Nothing), seemed to sum up the desired mood the scene in the movie had portrayed.

It features contributions from Angela Ammons, Audrey Martells, Blaqout, Fatman Scoop, Jesse Powell, J. It was a top forty hit among the nations of the Netherlands and the UK, as well as on the urban charts belonging to Australia. From Montell Jordan’s fourth studio album, (Get It On Tonite) was the lead single that is also featured on the Save the Last Dance Soundtrack. Having achieved his dream of being accepted into Georgetown, Derek convinces Sara to follow her dreams of Juilliard; they eventually begin a romantic relationship.

Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.

It was also featured on the Save the Last Dance Soundtrack and was noted for using auto-tune in its music style long before it became popularized in the music industry. As for the Shining Through remix, although it did not appear on any music charts at all, but served its purpose as a solid dance song number. Charles Taylor of Salon wrote, "for all its dumb clichés it offers the basic appeal of teen movies: the pleasure of watching kids be kids, acting as they do among themselves instead of how parents and teachers expect them to act. It was also one of the tracks featured on the soundtrack to Save the Last Dance, but not on all versions of it.On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 53% approval rating based on 100 reviews, with an average score of 5.

Entertaining enough to listen to, it never stuck out as a favorite among the fans of the movie, nor the soundtrack. The film stars Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas as a teenage interracial couple in Chicago who work together to help Stiles' character train for a Juilliard School dance audition.He puts so much authority in his performance, he makes this controversial romance seem like the best thing that could happen to anyone. From there, Sara Johnson meets Derek Reynolds, and the on-screen chemistry of teenage romance blossoms as these two characters contend with bouncing back from a series of adversities, only to become something greater. The song was based on the 1966 song by the Maytals, Bam Bam, as well as inspired by some of Angela Lansbury’s television series, titled Murder, She Wrote.