The four Oompa Loompa songs follow, and each one is performed by Elfman singing all the parts. It's supposed to be annoying - that's the point of it, and if you didn't know that in context, you'd just think this song was a horrible way to start the album. The album opens with the aforementioned "Wonka's Welcome Song", an earworm-children's jingle that actually appears in the film as performed by an automated puppet show, which subsequently breaks down and catches on fire. But when heard in the context of the film, and the lyrics (which were adapted from Dahl's poems, with the exceptions of "Wonka's Welcome Song"), the songs suddenly work - exceptionally well.
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Will it work for everyone? Certainly not - on first listen, the songs are disturbingly weird, and even a bit off-putting. The songs (and yes, dear reader, there are five of them), range through a variety of styles - but all retain that vintage Oingo Boingo edge that made Elfman such a success in the first place. The score that he wrote for the film is a fantastical return to the Edward Scissorhands style of film scoring, mixed with a touch of his current "modern" sound, and a dash of To Die For. Even knowing that this was not a remake of the beloved Gene Wilder Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but rather a new adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel, Elfman said that it wouldn't make a difference: "Tim and I will be crucified." But now, having seen the film and heard the soundtrack, I cannot really say that I would agree with that sentiment, and Elfman was just being cautious, with good reason.
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About a year ago, when Danny Elfman attended a BMI-sponsored "Coffee Talk" event at the Los Angeles Film Festival, he gave a little insight into his current project: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.