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Nothing's gonna stop us now....song at the end

posted 11 years ago by PandaBear8
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Was this song written specifically for the movie? Anyone else think it's one of the greatest songs ever? I can remember in 1987 that I loved the song, and now in 2014 it still moves me.

[–] bob191919 11 years ago

I can't answer your question but I think it's a great song too. The wikipedia entry does not specify. Fun fact though. According to the Wiki, the song was featured in a UK commercial last year and as a result, ended up at #39 in the UK charts in Sept of 2013. I find it remarkable that an old mushy 80's song would get that kind of love in the year 2013.

[–] marvelass 11 years ago

Yes, the song was specifically written for Mannequin. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been nominated for the Best Song Oscar. The Academy rules stipulate that only songs that are "original and written specifically for the motion picture" are eligible to win. For example, "I Will Always Love You" achieved great popularity when Whitney Houston covered it for The Bodyguard in 1992, but it was deemed ineligible for an Oscar because Dolly Parton had previously written (and recorded) it for one of her early albums in the '70s. This is also why, when stage musicals are turned into movies, they almost always write an extra song in hopes that it will get nominated, since none of the songs from the stage version are eligible because they weren't written specifically for the film.

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[–] bob191919 11 years ago

Interesting. Thanks marvelass!

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[–] SenoritaTorres 11 years ago

I absolutely adore this song, it's one of my favourites. A classic.

[–] giamatt02 10 years ago

I live in Philly and in 1987 the Flyers went to the Stanley Cup Finals. They made a highlight video of their playoff run using this song and I remember, I would watch it over and over! I think I actually knew the song from that video before I saw it in Mannequin at the time.

[–] hollee23-1 10 years ago

i had it played at my wedding reception. :)

[–] oywp7022 10 years ago

great idea

[–] greenbudgie 10 years ago

It was good to hear that. It sewed the film up nicely. It made me stay through the entire closing credits. Something that I don't normally do.

[–] caltek1 10 years ago

I can totally relate to that (staying thru the closing credits just to hear the song).

One other note, this is the song that makes me wish that I could play the drums and
the guitar - that guitar solo in the middle gets my blood boiling every single time
I hear it.

[–] persen1 8 years ago

Albert Hammond and Diane Warren might have written it for the movie, but Hammond's girlfriend Claudia was also a huge inspiration help for the song.
Hammond explained in a 1992 BBC Radio interview:

"I had lived with my girlfriend Claudia for seven years. I had finally gotten divorced from my other marriage and was thinking of writing a song for me to sing and make a demo for our wedding, so I combined the two. What we thought of, what I said to Diane was, 'it's almost like they've stopped me from marrying this woman for seven years, and they haven't succeeded. They're not gonna stop me doing it.' That's when suddenly Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now came up."

[–] Stratego (31081) 6 years ago

The song's great, the movie is horrible.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

that song makes the movie...