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the music that tells you how to feel before the scene has decided.
means a recorded collection of music that accompanies and amplifies a film, show, game, or moment in life.
from from the physical strip running along film reels that carried the audio, literally a track of sound printed beside the picture; the term migrated from the celluloid to the songs themselves once studios started selling the music separately.
jaws effecttwo notes made an entire generation fear oceans
vinyl comebacksoundtrack sales often outlive the movie itself
temp trackseditors cut scenes to placeholder songs never released
silence countsno soundtrack is still a deliberate choice
for instance
purple rain — prince, 1984, album and film sold each other
guardians of the galaxy — awesome mix vol. 1 outsold the film's own hype, 2014
stranger things — synth score revived 80s gear sales decades later