Decoding the music of 'Suicide Squad'

The much-anticipated anti-hero flick 'Suicide Squad', which releases this week, has managed to create quite the buzz for a number of reasons.

A still from 'Suicide Squad'

The cast that includes names like Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto who will be portraying some of our favourite comic book villains on screen, the story line, but also for some very interesting music choices, songs that seem playful, fun and very sassy, much like the movie.

We noticed a few classic songs that the movie will feature and decided to decode the epic soundtrack.

The Comic Con teaser featured a cover of the song ‘I started a joke’ by the Bee Gees which released in 1968, which still seems a bit misplaced considering the theme of the movie.

The second trailer featured a disco version of (Panic at the Disco’s cover) Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody which could debatably be the greatest rock song in the world. While the poetic song may seem strange for a movie with a theme like this, it surprisingly fit in perfectly with the frenzied mood of the trailer.

Another trailer raised the bar by combining two classic songs, a cover of ‘You don’t own me’ by Lesley Gore and The Ballroom Blitz. If this was merely a marketing strategy, it’s an incredibly smart one since the soundtrack seems to be very pivotal to the goings on in the movie.