
" 'La La Land' Composer Justin Hurwitz Details the Film's Songwriting Process".
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On the seventh season of Singer, Liu Huan and its guest singer Tia Ray covered this song on the Finals Rush Hour on April 5, 2019. On Operación Triunfo 2017, Amaia Romero and Alfred García covered this song on the Gala 3 on 13 November 2017. Singers Eile Monty and Black Gryph0n covered this song and released it on YouTube. Qian Zhenghao covered this song on the Chinese idol survival show Idol Producer. South Korean singer Hwasa from Mamamoo covered this song and released it on YouTube. Gavin James covered this song and released it as a single. Anton du Beke and Connie Fisher covered this song on Anton's debut album From the Top. Sheridan Smith covered this song on her debut album Sheridan. On The X Factor UK, Lloyd Macey covered this song on the first Live Show on 28 October 2017. On The Voice UK, Shane McCormack covered this song on the second Knockout Show on 24 March 2018. On The Voice of Greece, Stefanos Vezirgianopoulos & Kiriaki Sahinidou covered this song on the third Battle episode of the show on 14 November 2018. I guess it has some jazz inflections, because it’s something Sebastian plays on the piano. I was thinking about that idea a little bit and just trying to compose a melody that I thought was shapely and beautiful. You have these great moments and then you have these less great moments in life and in Los Angeles and we see it happen in the story.
And it kind of goes back-and-forth between cadencing in major and cadencing in minor, because I think that’s kind of what the song is about. I would say the tone is hopeful, but melancholy at the same time. I was just composing it from an emotional place and thinking about the tone. It's so funny that that and "Audition" are the two songs that people seem to be responding to the most, at least so far, because they had similar processes in the sense that they had probably the least amount of fussing at the piano demo stage. started at the piano with me just working on demos for Damien, sending him ideas until something really sparked. Justin Hurwitz, the composer of the song, discussed the writing of the song: Later in the film, it is reprised by Sebastian and Mia (Stone) during a montage of him getting ready to tour with Keith's ( John Legend) band, as well as Mia quitting her job at a coffee shop and renting out a theater for her one-woman play.
In the film, the song is first sung by Gosling alone as the character of Sebastian as he sings and dances on the Hermosa Beach Pier.