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Moulin Rouge: Music
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Moulin Rouge is sensory stimulation at its best. Don't be surprised if your bottom starts bopping along to the music and you find yourself cheering throughout the film. It may be the wildest ride you take this summer. And you won't even have to think about the price of gas.
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Transcribed in 1896 from Lautrec's 1891 full size, tallposter designed to publicize the famous Moulin Rouge in Montmartre, a poplular place for music, shows, and dancing. The original poster charted a bold new direction in posters and was very popular in Paris. In this scene, thepopular dancer La Goulue (the glutton) performs the can-can with her limber partner Valentin Le Desosse (the boneless).This image waspublished in the monthly series Les Affiches Illustrees, a collection of small format poster images for collectors. This series was published in 1896 by Imprimerie Chaixand printed by ImprimerieEugene Verneau in Paris. Edition Size is 1,025. Many of these have not survived ingood condition; many have not survived at all.
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In 2001, Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, and Pink were chosen to remake Labelle's 1975 single "Lady Marmalade" for the film Moulin Rouge! and its soundtrack. The single Missy Elliott produced hit number one on the Hot 100 for five weeks and reached number one in eleven other countries, and it earned all four performers a Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals." Aguilera's appearance in the music video was compared to that of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider.[27] The video won two MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year in 2001, where Aguilera accepted the award saying, "I guess the big hair paid off."[28]
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