When the new Great Gatsby movie was announced I was both excited and nervous.  Excited because I loved the book and had read it many times, but nervous because I was worried that a movie made about the 1920’s would not be made well in 2013.  I was worried that today’s technology and influence would consume the story in its entirety.  One thing that I was worried about in particular was the music because I enjoyed the music that came out of the 1920’s so much that I felt anything other type or era of music would have been misplaced.  I admit that I was wrong in my very biased hypothesis.  When the movie came out and I went to see it I almost flipped out with anger when I started to hear hip-hop during some of the scenes even though I enjoy hip-hop, but then I started to listen closely to the songs and I noticed that a lot of what was sung had very much the same style and intent as the music that actually used backed then.  The only difference was that the music did have a new-age flare added to it.  The song with Andre 3000 and Beyoncé showed me that even though the music is not from the same era that it can still be used because of people’s interpretation of it.  People don’t have to listen to the same style of music to receive the same information or emotional intent because music in general is interpreted a thousand different ways when given to a thousand different people.  The end result is that the music of the new Great Gatsby thoroughly produced the feelings for each scene.  The music matched the information and emotional settings that were given.  I realized at the end that it does not matter whether I hear a famous early 1900’s musician over Jay Z or Kanye West when discussing something set in the early 1900’s as long as the music gets the message across.