What Men Want

Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson and Tracy Morgan, and Directed by Adam Shankman (A Walk To Remember, Hairspray).

Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson and Tracy Morgan, and Directed by Adam Shankman (A Walk To Remember, Hairspray).

The album features score by EMMY®-nominated Composer Brian Tyler, known for his scores to Crazy Rich Asians, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Criminal, Furious 7, and so much more.

Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is a successful sports agent who’s constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world… until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts! With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest (Aldis Hodge) to the test. WHAT MEN WANT is the latest comedy from director Adam Shankman (HAIRSPRAY) and producers Will Packer and James Lopez (GIRLS TRIP), co-starring Tracy Morgan, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Josh Brener, Tamala Jones, Phoebe Robinson, Max Greenfield, Jason Jones, Brian Bosworth, Chris Witaske and Erykah Badu.

See the movie trailer below!

Paramount Pictures presents What Men Want, in theaters February 8

More info at: Official movie website

Lakeshore Records is set to release What Men Want—Music From the Motion Picture digitally February 8, 2019. The original score was composed by Brian Tyler (Crazy Rich Asians).

Lakeshore Records is set to release What Men Want—Music From the Motion Picture digitally February 8, 2019. The original score was composed by Brian Tyler (Crazy Rich Asians).

Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is a successful sports agent who’s constantly boxed out by her male colleagues. When Ali is passed up for a well-deserved promotion, she questions what else she needs to do to succeed in a man’s world... until she gains the ability to hear men’s thoughts! With her newfound power, Ali looks to outsmart her colleagues as she races to sign the next basketball superstar, but the lengths she has to go to will put her relationship with her best friends and a potential new love interest (Aldis Hodge) to the test.

WHAT MEN WANT is the latest comedy from director Adam Shankman (Hairspray) and producers Will Packer and James Lopez (Girls Trip), co-starring Tracy Morgan, Richard Roundtree, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Josh Brener, Tamala Jones, Phoebe Robinson, Max Greenfield, Jason Jones, Brian Bosworth, Chris Witaske and Erykah Badu.

Says Tyler: “When director Adam Shankman and I first spoke about the score for WHAT MEN WANT we quickly realized that how Taraji P. Henson played the character of Ali Davis was the key to the entire score -- vulnerable yet confident, smart, hilarious, sexy, flawed, gifted, and yearning for something more. The drive her character has was something we felt could be embodied by the drums. The other components of the score would be the emotional old school jazz trio themes and the throwback R&B / funk music. The emotional themes for the movie are bittersweet - old school jazz upright bass, piano, and saxophone. The music, like the characters, is at times energetic, quirky, powerful, swanky, and full of attitude. What a joy it was to work on this film with the wonderful and incredibly talented Adam Shankman!”

Says Shankman: “I am trying to find words that express my intense gratitude to the incredible Brian Tyler but I can’t find one big enough or with enough syllables to get there. He is as resourceful as he is musically magical, and I thank God and Paramount Music every day for bringing him into my life. Brian wasn’t just WHAT MEN WANT wanted....it was what it needed.”

BRIAN TYLER is a composer and conductor of over 70 films and was named Film Composer of the Year at the 2014 Cue Awards. Tyler composed blockbuster hits Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7, Iron Man 3, and Thor: The Dark World and recently Crazy Rich Asians featuring a big band jazz and romantic string score that was voted to the 2019 Oscar shortlist for Best Original Score. He recently composed the theme for Formula 1 which airs during the global broadcast of every race. Tyler often conducts the London Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and the Hollywood Studio Symphony for his projects. In addition, he scored Eagle Eye for producer Steven Spielberg, The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, and the recent Fate of the Furious which had the biggest global box office opening of all time. He was nominated for a 2014 BAFTA Award and was inducted into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2010. His films have grossed $12 billion worldwide making him the 9th highest grossing film composer of all-time.

Upcoming projects are DC Comic’s Swamp Thing for James Wan, and Justin Baldoni’s heartfelt romance about a couple with cystic fibrosis Five Feet Apart.

Tyler began scoring features shortly after completing his master's degree from Harvard University and receiving a bachelor's degree from UCLA. In 2003, after composing the score for The Hunted for Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin, Tyler wrote the score for the turn-of-the-century drama The Greatest Game Ever Played starring Shia LaBeouf in 2005. He also scored The Expendables films and Rambo, directed by Sylvester Stallone, Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone (which won the Soundtrackfest Award Best TV Score of 2018), the 2017 hit Power Rangers co-composed One Strange Rock with pop artist Zedd for director Paul Thomas Anderson. Tyler also wrote the score for the 2015 feature film Truth starring Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes and Robert Redford as Dan Rather.

A multi-instrumentalist and orchestral conductor, Tyler is skilled in playing piano, guitar, drums, bass, cello, world percussion, guitarviol, charango and bouzouki, amongst others. He showcased this range of expertise for the retro heist film Now You See Me and its sequel. Tyler has also been conducting symphonic concerts of his film music around the globe including multiple concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London at Royal Festival Hall, Poland at the Tauron Arena, and at the historic Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles with the Chinese National Orchestra. Along with scoring the 2014 Michael Bay-produced film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tyler wrote and produced the movie’s theme song Shell Shocked under his electronic music alter-ego Madsonik. The song features multiplatinum-selling artist Wiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla $ign, and Kill the Noise. The song was certified gold by RIAA. He also collaborated with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello on the hit song Divebomb.

His score for Bill Paxton’s Frailty won him a World Soundtrack Award in 2002, as well as The World Soundtrack Award as Best New Film Composer of the Year. Additionally, Tyler has received 26 BMI Music Awards, five ASCAP Music Awards, three Emmy Award nominations, and won 12 Goldspirit Awards, including Composer of the Year. Tyler’s soundtracks are mainstays on the charts, with his work for Children of Dune reaching No. 4 on Amazon Music’s album charts while Avengers: Age of Ultron, Furious 7, Thor: The Dark World, Iron Man 3, and Fast Five all hitting No. 1 on the iTunes soundtrack charts.

In addition to his resume of films, Tyler arranged and conducted the film logo music for Universal Pictures. He also composed the music for the Marvel Studios logo in 2014. Tyler created the new theme music for the NFL on ESPN in 2014 as well as composing the theme for the U.S. Open Championships now airing annually on FOX. For television, his credits include the series Scorpion, Magnum PI, and Hawaii Five-0. He has received Emmy nominations for Last Call, Sleepy Hollow, and Transformers: Prime.

More info at: SoundWorks Collection