The Elvis composer explains that Austin Butler recorded every line of each performance in the film, while Presley’s voice was mixed in when needed: 'We used a lot of the breaths, grunts and body movements that are Austin, and we’d switch back to Elvis.”
” is visually captivating, the music experience is immersive. The film needs to be seen, but it demands to be heard.
Though it is primarily Butler’s vocals that audiences will be hearing, the latter half of the film has more of Presley’s voice incorporated. Wheeler clarifies, “Austin performs everything up until 1968 where he is in black leather. Everything after that was Elvis, and that was partly to do with the fidelity of the stems — the stereo recordings sourced from mixes of multiple individual tracks, such as drums, vocals and bass — in this case, we were using vocal stems.
With the classics, Wheeler notes “Can’t Help Falling in Love” became a theme to represent the relationship between Elvis and Priscilla . Musgraves’ version was stripped back to piano and vocals, which is heard as the couple kiss. By the end, it’s used again during an emotional storytelling point.
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