No More Power Ballads: Rethinking the Wedding Singer Trope

Somebody already made a movie about a charming-fuckup wedding singer who longs to perform his own songs instead of the obligatory covers of '80s hits. It's called The Wedding Singer , and it fucking rules. You might think that one wedding-singer comedy would be enough, especially since that one wedding-singer movie was a huge hit that became a cable staple. You might think that nobody would need another wedding singer comedy, especially since wedding bands are relative rarities these days. ( Someone must hire them, but I haven't been to a wedding reception with a band since my aunt got married in the late '90s.) Nevertheless, the Irish writer and director John Carney's new film Power Ballad dares to revisit that territory and to ask a pressing question: What if a wedding singer wrote a song and somebody stole it?

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