Mixtape is available for streaming on Netflix, set in 1999 and starring Gemma Brooke Allen as 12-year-old Beverly Moody who finds a mixtape made by her late parents titled Love Riot. She hopes to connect to her parents by listening to the songs that meant the most to them.
Allen and other kids her age live in a time where the mixtape has come and gone in pop culture. She received a crash course from her parents about the cultural artifact, gaining a sense of the importance those compact cassettes contained.
Naturally, BackstageOL was curious as to who would be on her mixtape. Bowen suggests Lil Nas X, to which Allen agreed, also adding the likes of Mariah Carey and Glass Animals.
With music playing an integral role in the film, it seemed logical to provide an overview of the music featured in Mixtape. The film also has several original tracks along with songs that go back as far as the 1970s. Listed below is the soundtrack for Mixtape:
- I Love You Always Forever by Donna Lewis
- Smile by Vitamin C
- I Got a Right by Iggy Pop
- When I Hear My Name by The White Stripes
- Getting Nowhere Fast by Girls At Our Best
- Hard Time by Keith Poppin
- Linda Linda by The Blue Hearts
- Surrender by Cheap Trick
- Best I Ever Had by Vertical Horizon
- Teacher’s Pet by The Quick
- I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
- More Than This by Roxy Music
- Free by The Martinis
- My Own Worst Enemy by Lit
- Lesson Learned by Gossip
- Leaving Home by Jebediah
- Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz
- Better Things by The Kinks
- Les and Ray by Le Tigre
- Talk is Cheap by Sandy Gaye
- Never Let You Go by Third Eye Blind
Stream Mixtape on Netflix today. Watch the full interview with BackstageOL here.
Generations Collide in ‘Mixtape’
