“Jay was one of the first people to identify the aspirational aspect of the film,” said Luhrmann, who met Jay-Z through their mutual friend (and future “Gatsby” star) Leonardo DiCaprio. “History don’t repeat itself,” the rapper observes, “It rhymes.” Other tunes, such as Jay-Z’s hard-edged “100$ Bill,” draw thematic lines between the Great Depression and the Great Recession.
Some of the music works to close the nearly 100-year gap separating the eras, as in a hot jazz-style version of Beyoncé’s “Crazy in Love” and will.i.am’s “Bang Bang,” which juices a familiar bit of Jimmy Johnson stride piano with thumping club beats. The film, opening May 10, features new songs by A-list artists including Andre 3000, Jack White, Florence + the Machine and Jay-Z, the last of whom served as an executive producer on both the movie and its soundtrack album, due out Tuesday. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age account of American ambition to the sleekly seductive sound of 21st century pop. He’s even bolder in “The Great Gatsby,” setting F.
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