I love ya, James Taylor, Randy Newman, Melissa Etheridge, but this music sucks.Music from political films win Oscars (Reuters)
Music from politically themed films scored top Oscars on Sunday, while the winners used their moment of glory to push issues ranging from global warming to gay marriage.
Melissa Etheridge's global warming anthem, "I Need to Wake Up," took home the gold at the 79th annual Academy Awards for best original song, beating out three separate nominations in that category from "Dreamgirls," as well as Randy Newman's "Our Town" from the animated film, "Cars." Hers was the second big victory of the night for "An Inconvenient Truth," the big-screen adaptation of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's slide-show lecture on the perils of global warming, which won a documentary feature Oscar. After thanking various people involved in making the film, and, "my incredible wife, Tammy," and her four children, Etheridge -- one of the country's best known lesbians -- thanked Gore. - complete article
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