The soundtrack to “Deadpool and Wolverine” is out, and it’s a chart hit on iTunes.
But the jukebox collection hit songs is lacking the biggest song in the movie: Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.” The song is a major piece of the movie. In their junket interviews, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman talked all about how they persuaded Madonna to let them use it. Reynolds even said that Madonna gave them notes on how to use it. (Ridiculous but whatever.)
Now it turns out Madge said no to using “Like A Prayer” on the soundtrack album which includes Nsync, Aretha Franklin, The
Goo Goo Dolls, and Huey Lewis and the News. The movie is so meta they even included “The Greatest” by Jackman from his “The Greatest Showman” album.
It seems that this fall Madonna will release her own 35th anniversary edition of the “Like a Prayer” album and didn’t want “D&W” to take away from that. She may have made a mistake since the movie will introduce the song to a new generation that might have bought the anniversary album as well.
So much for Madonna cooperating! And she even brought her twin adopted daughters to the premiere this week! Well, at least she agreed to the song being in the movie. Hopefully, songwriter Patrick Leonard gets something out of that! But he missed a nice royalty on the soundtrack.
The track isn’t even included on Spotify, although “D&W” fans have made playlists and included “Like a Prayer” from other sources.
