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**Love ** **Actually** 1. [|The Trouble With Love Is] - Kelly Clarkson This song contributes to the movie by introducing the romantic but hard relationship of the lovers. As title goes, this song exemplifies the harshness that the couples are facing. For example, in the scene where Sarah is having trouble with Mark, it shows how the song exemplifies the mood of the film, which is trouble, hesitation, but also romantic. 2. [|Here with me] - Dido This song contributes to the movie by assuring the audience the bond between couples and relationships. For example, this song is played when Juliet is watching the wedding videotape that her husbands' friend, Mark. She realizes that Mark is in love with her, who is his best friend's wife. The song really contributes to the movie by portraying these confusions and contradictions but at the same time with the feeling of love. 3. [|Sweetest Goodbye] - Maroon 5 This song contributes to the movie by setting a strong friendship. The song plays in the background radio when Collin is telling his friend while driving a van that he bought a ticket to United States for the Christmas vacation. His friend, Tony, thinks that it is not a good idea but Collin is assure that he will have some good time in America. The song title "Sweetest Goodbye," tells us that the "sweetness" is meant for the fun that Collin will have and "goodbye" is meant for the time that the two friends will have apart during the vacation. 4. **[|Turn me on]** - Norah Jones This song contributes to the movie by expressing the first love feeling to the audience. This song is played when Sarah and Karl are slow dancing for the first time, which creates romantic setting. This song is perfectly apt for the scene because the song is very slow but the lines are catchy at the same time. 5. **[|Take me as I am]** - Sharissa This song contributes to the movie by showing the audience that one should be taken as themselves. What this means is that one shouldn't want more or less from their lovers because the way they are right now shows most honest side of them. For example, in the movie, Sam wanted Olivia to like her but he was afraid that she will reject her, which shoes how he wanted to show the true side of him. 6. [|Songbird] - Eva Cassidy This song contributes to the movie by expressing the emotions of the two lovers. This song is played when Sarah is about to transform herself to a much more sophisticated women to get intimate with her co-worker. This song truly embraces her feeling because the lyrics are, "I love you, I love you, I love you, " or "For you there'll be no crying, for you the sun will be shining, cause I feel that when I'm with you, It's alright, I know it's right." 7. **[|Wherever You Will Go]** - The Calling This song contributes to the movie by showing that love will follow us anywhere. This song is played when Collin, who came from England, goes to motel with two other American girls. This implies that he was right from the beginning that he will have some fun in America, just as he told his friend Tony, back in England. 8. [|Jump (For my love)] - The Pointer Sisters This song contributes to the movie by breaking the strict portrayal of Prime Minister. Usually Prime Minister is judged as strictly moral and calm. However, in this movie, the Prime Minister is more emotional and impulsive, which indicates that the Christmas season has come and that he is in love, but who can't also express this because of the image of the Prime Minister. This song plays in the radio when Prime Minister is at home, wanting to relax from the harsh day that he had with the President of United States. He dances to the song and shows that he is fine through showing happiness. 9. [|Both Sides Now] - Joni Mitchell This song contributes to the movie by portraying the conflict of a couple. Karen discovers a box in her husband's pocket and assumes that it is the necklace that he was looking around at the department store that evening. However, at Christmas, Karen finds out that the box was Joni Mitchell's CD, including the song Both Sides Now. She realizes that her husband gave the necklace to another girl ans soon feels lonely. This song really emphasizes the mood of the plot where Karen is devastated. 10. [|All You Need Is Love] - Lynden David Hall This song contributes to the movie by portraying the love and happiness that the wedding or Christmas brings. For example, this song is played when Juliet and Peter are getting married in the Church. The choral music singers sing this song with some brass, percussion, piano, clarinet, and other instruments. This song truly illustrates that "love" is all you need to be happy and satisfied, which is the basic theme for the movie. 11. [|God Only Knows] - The Beach Boys This song contributes to the movie by supporting the most touching scene in the movie. This song plays in the last portion of the movie where everyone who were separated during the Christmas finally meets in the airport lounge. In this specific scene, everyone is hugging each other to show love and happiness that they get from each other. The song directly relates these relationships by its lyrics, "God only knows, what I'd be without you," which means that the couple can't be separated. 12.[| I'll See It Through] - Texas This song contributes to the movie when Juliet is with her husband and thinks his best friend hates her when he is actually loving her. This song illustrates the emotion that one is hiding from other, which is the main point of the plot. The lyrics, "You're all I ever wanted, You're all I ever needed, it's you, You're all I've ever wanted, and loving you's the right thing to do, and I'll see it through," perfectly points out the feeling that Mark is feeling towards his best friend's wife. 13. **[|Too Lost In You]** - Sugababes This song contributes to the movie by showing the despair and hardships in loving sometime. As the title shows, "Too lost in you," means when Karen was "too lost in" Harry that she expected too much of him. This song is also very mysterious and eerie, which makes it very emotional while listening to the song and watching the movie. 14. [|Glasgow Love Theme] - Craig Armstrong This song contributes to the movie by setting the basic image of the Christmas atmosphere to the movie. Unlike other songs, this song doesn't have a lyric, which makes the audience to be more emotional by the wind strings, percussion, and other instruments. This song is added to the scenes of the movie where lyrics don't mean anything. For example, 15. [|Christmas Is All Around] - Billy Mack This song contributes to the movie by showing that Christmas is near with the happy, warm feelings. This sons is originated from "Love is all around" and changed the "Love" to "Christmas." It really shows the Christmas atmosphere in the eve of Christmas when Billy Mack is singing this song in the studio. 16. [|All I Want For Christmas Is You] - Olivia Olsen This song contributes to the movie by providing a relationship with the young lovers that come out in the movie. Olivia Olsen and Sam are in love but they don't express it until they are apart from each other. This song makes their bong much tighter by Olivia singing the song and Sam playing drum along with the song. It also contributes to the atmosphere of Christmas that in Christmas, nobody wants to be alone and find true love.
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