One Direction Songwriter Savan Kotecha Gave ‘The Idea Of You’ Songs That Boy Band Touch – Sound & Screen Film

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In The Idea of You, Anne Hathaway plays Solene, a single mother who has a romance with singer Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine).

Hayes is a member of the fictional boy band August Moon and performs their songs in the film. Songwriter Savan Kotecha, who also wrote “What Makes You Beautiful” for One Direction and “One More Night” for Maroon 5, wrote August Moon songs like he would any real-life recording artist. “We really wanted it to feel real,” Kotecha said during a panel conversation at Deadline’s Sound & Screen music showcase on Friday. “In the movie, you would have to believe that this band is real.

In creating the songs, I didn’t want to write movie songs. I wanted these songs to be competitive.” It worked. The soundtrack album for the Amazon MGM Studios film has had more than 100 million downloads, and Kotecha revealed that some in the music industry assumed August Moon was real. “Funny enough, some of the songs started getting radio play,” Kotecha said. “Radio stations were like, ‘We need the band.

Where’s the band?” August Moon did live again. After the release of The Idea of You, the cast recorded one more song that Kotecha wrote. “There’s a song called “So Cold” that came out after the movie that we recorded for August Moon,” Kotecha said. “It’s an August Moon song.