Sing Street filmmakers afraid to call it a musical
It's the latest from Once and Begin Again filmmaker John Carney and it follows in that vein by being chock full of music, with the cast enthusiastically singing entire songs on camera, creating music videos and the film even breaking out into a full on fantasy dance sequence at one point. And yet, the people involved don't want to call it a musical.
"Well we don’t call them musicals because that’s a dirty word!" Laughs the filmmaker during an interview ahead of the release of Sing Street in Dublin. It's a fact that there has been a decline interest in the word 'musical' even while the genre is actually in rude health, mostly thanks to animated efforts. But Carney agrees that the name fits: "But they are musicals. To me a musical is a film who’s plot is driven by the use of full songs in their entirety."
