alt.soundtrack: “Ghost” featuring 50 Cent, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore

One of the things that thrills me as someone that makes music is the power of music to completely change our emotional reactions to a visual story. Over brunch one day, I was having a conversation about “alternative soundtracks” - what would happen to iconic moments of cinema with a musical intervention. It amazes me how the power of a soundtrack - any soundtrack - can command the emotional tone of visual moment. Thanks to the late Patrick Swayze, Demi, Fiddy, and especially the Righteous Brothers, who even though absent from the video, kind of made this opportunity possible.