Savan Kotecha \u2013\u00a0who has writing credits on hits by the likes of Ariana Grande, One Direction and Britney Spears \u2013\u00a0has penned original songs for the film. <\/p>
Given that it revolves around the lead singer of a fictional boy band, getting the music right was always going to be one of the keys to new film The Idea Of You<\/a>.<\/p>\n The movie is adapted from the novel of the same name by Robinne Lee and stars Anne Hathaway as a 40-year-old single mother who unexpectedly falls for 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, who fronts \u201cthe hottest boy band on the planet\u201d August Moon.<\/p>\n It has often been pointed out that Hayes bears a few similarities to Harry Styles \u2013 with some even claiming that the novel started out as fan fiction \u2013 and, according to producer Cathy Schulman, it was a tricky task to create a band that had som things in common with familiar groups but could also stand on their own.<\/p>\n \u201cHow do we capture the energy around One Direction without actually repeating it, or frankly, just being worse than it? That was the big fear,\u201d she explained during an exclusive interview with RadioTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe knew we had to be original enough that we wouldn\u2019t be directly compared. And so, a lot of that pressure fell on, you know, Savan [Kotecha] to create songs that were more modern and more of the moment than One Direction\u2019s moment was, so that we didn\u2019t feel like it was a throwback, and that it could really be happening today.\u201d<\/p>\n The aforementioned Savan Kotecha has songwriting credits on hits by the likes of Ariana Grande, One Direction and Britney Spears to name just three big acts, and so penning new songs for the film was something which must have come very naturally to him.<\/p>\n Read on for a full list of the original songs that feature in The Idea of You.<\/p> You can find the full list of tracks included in the soundtrack album \u2013 which is available to buy on Amazon Prime<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 below:<\/p>\n All songs written by Savan Kotecha except where stated.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Idea of You soundtrack: all the songs in the romcom<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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