History YMMV / MusicAndLyrics

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Alex OnlyInItForTheMoney or has he just become jaded after being chewed up and spit out by the industry?

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60MRkqlJgc "Don't Write Me Off,"]] Alex's first attempt as writing a song entirely on his own. And while, as he admits, they're pretty awkward, the lyrics are completely emotionally honest about his feelings towards Sophie and how sorry he is that he upset her.
-->'''Sophie''': "[[SoProudOfYou That was]] [[ArcWords dinner]]."
** Alex explaining why pop music is so powerful to Sophie:
-->''You can have all the awards in the world, but none of them will make you feel'' as ''good'' as ''fast as [[Music/TheTemptations "I've got sunshine, on a cloudy da-ay..."]]''
** "Way Back Into Love," when taken at face value, is a genuinely sweet song.
** Alex reluctantly agrees to go to dinner at Gary and Rhonda's when Sophie asks him to, as Rhonda is a big fan of his. Then there was him allowing Rhonda to take a picture of herself with him when they first met.
** After disagreements over Cora's hyper-sexualized take on "Way Back Into Love" cause him and Sophie to split up, Alex convinces Cora to record the original version by telling her that doing so will win back Sophie's affection. [[spoiler:And it works!]]
** Cora smiling at [[spoiler:Alex's and Sophie's ConcertKiss in the wings.]]
** Chris and his daughter sharing a smile at Cora's concert at the end.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60MRkqlJgc Don't Write Me Off]]

** [[spoiler:After Cora's Buddhism-inspired version of "Way Back Into Love" causes an argument between Alex and Sophie that results in a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, how does Alex convince Cora to use the original version of the song? By telling her it would win Sophie back. It works, in both cases: Cora uses the original song at the concert and Sophie and Alex get back together. And then, Cora smiles at Alex's and Sophie's ConcertKiss in the wings.]]

%%* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: When it isn't StylisticSuck.
%%* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Love Autopsy!

* HilariousInHindsight: Watching the movie now, knowing about Music/LadyGaga, most of Cora's scenes become this.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: When it isn't StylisticSuck.
* EarWorm: Seeing as this is a movie about pop music, this was bound to happen.
* FaceOfTheBand: Alex is an illustration of what happens to the person on the other side of this trope.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Love Autopsy!

-->''You can have all the awards in the world, but none of them will make you feel'' as ''good'' as ''fast as "I've got sunshine, on a cloudy da-ay..."''

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: When it isn't StylisticSuck.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Love Autopsy!
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60MRkqlJgc Don't Write Me Off]]
** Alex explaining why pop music is so powerful to Sophie:
-->''You can have all the awards in the world, but none of them will make you feel'' as ''good'' as ''fast as "I've got sunshine, on a cloudy da-ay..."''
** "Way Back Into Love," when taken at face value, is a genuinely sweet song.

* HeartwarmingMoments: Alex reluctantly agrees to go to dinner at Gary and Rhonda's when Sophie asks him to, as Rhonda is a big fan of his. Then there was him allowing Rhonda to take a picture of herself with him when they first met.

* TheWoobie: Sophie. Before the events of the film, she was in love with Sloan, her English professor, before he had an affair with her while engaged to someone else (without Sophie's knowledge) and when it went sour, he used her image in a bestseller that become a personal nightmare for her, and robbed her of her self-confidence. When they come face to face, Alex has to do the talking for her. The worst part? [[spoiler:Alex, in his frustration in Sophie refusing to put together a final verse for the song because she feels she can't, says that Sloan was right in what he said about her.]] ''Ouch.'' [[spoiler:He made up for it with his apology in the form of "Don't Write Me Off".]]

* HeartwarmingMoments: [[spoiler:After Cora's Buddhism-inspired version of "Way Back Into Love" causes an argument between Alex and Sophie that results in a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, how does Alex convince Cora to use the original version of the song? By telling her it would win Sophie back. It works, in both cases: Cora uses the original song at the concert and Sophie and Alex get back together.]]

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60MRkqlJgc Don't Write Me Off]]

** Sophie telling Cora that the new intro to A Way Back Into Love is "a complete contradiction" to the vulnerable song because it's so sexual. Compare this to [[MileyCyrus the Wrecking Ball video, which has nudity and hammer licking set to a breakup song.]]

* TheWoobie: Sophie. Before the events of the film, she was in love with Sloan, her English professor, before he used her image in a bestseller that become a personal nightmare for her, and robbed her of her self-confidence. When they come face to face, Alex has to do the talking for her. The worst part? [[spoiler:Alex, in his frustration in Sophie refusing to put together a final verse for the song because she feels she can't, says that Sloan was right in what he said about her.]] ''Ouch.'' [[spoiler:He made up for it with his apology in the form of "Don't Write Me Off".]]

* TheWoobie: Sophie. Before the events of the film, she was in love with Sloan, her English professor, before he used her image in a bestseller that become a personal nightmare for her, and robbed her of her self-confidence. When they come face to face, Alex has to do the talking for her. The worst part? [[spoiler:Alex, in his frustration in Sophie refusing to put together a final verse for the song because she feels she can't, says that Sloan was right in what he said about her.]] ''Ouch.''

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: When it isn't Stylistic Suck.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Unfortunately, Alex is completely right when he tells Sophie point blank that the music business doesn't care how good you are so long as you sell units and fill seats.

* HilariousInHindsight: Watching the movie now, knowing about LadyGaga, most of Cora's scenes become this.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Alex tells Sophie point blank that, no matter how good you are, if you don't sell units or fill seats, the business will see you as a lost cause, and selling out is often a necessary evil. Unfortunately, he's right.

-->''You can have all the awards in the world, but none of them will make you feel'' as ''good'' as ''fast as "I've got sunshine, on a cloudy da-ay..."

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Alex tells Sophie point blank that, no matter how good you are, if you don't sell units or fill seats, the business will see you as a lost cause, and selling out is often a necessary evil. Unfortunately, he's right.
* StylisticSuck: Cora's interpretations of "Way Back Into Love" seems to intentionally invoke this. The rest of Cora's body of work may also qualify, depending on your musical taste. In any case, they're not meant to be taken seriously.