The new single appears on the Glitter & Doom soundtrack
The new Indigo Girls single “What We Wanna Be” is available via PS Classics, marking the folk duo’s first new song in four years. Indigo Girls, composed of the Grammy Award–winning duo Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, wrote the song specifically for the end credits of the upcoming film musical Glitter & Doom, which – through 25 iconic Indigo Girls songs – charts the romance between aspiring circus performer Glitter (Filipino star Alex Diaz) and struggling musician Doom (UK newcomer Alan Cammish). The full soundtrack will be available in digital and streaming formats on Friday, March 8th.
Indigo Girls is one of the most successful folk duos in history. They have recorded 16 studio albums (seven gold, four platinum, one double platinum), sold over 15 million records, and built a dedicated, enduring following. Their 35-year career began in clubs around their native Atlanta, GA, before taking off with their eponymous major label debut which sold over two million units under the power of songs “Closer to Fine” and “Kid Fears.” They are co-founders of Honor the Earth, a non-profit dedicated to the survival of sustainable Native communities, Indigenous environmental justice, and green energy solutions.
The film musical Glitter & Doom, directed by Tom Gustafson and written by Cory Krueckeberg, opens on March 8th at New York’s Quad Cinema and Los Angeles’ Landmark Theaters Sunset through Music Box Films, with a national rollout one week later. As SPEAKproductions, Krueckeberg and Gustafson have made seven films, which have won more than 60 awards while playing over 250 film festivals around the world. Their debut feature, the musical fantasy Were the World Mine – the team’s first soundtrack collaboration with PS Classics – was chosen as a “Critic’s Pick” by The New York Times, who called it “movie musical magic.”
The full soundtrack to the musical – produced by Chamuel, the finalist from NBC’s The Voice known as the Reverb Junkie – includes bold reimaginings of such Indigo Girls classics as “Closer to Fine,” “Power of Two” and “Get Out the Map,” a dance remix of “Galileo” by Ruby Rose – plus the new original, “What We Wanna Be.” In addition to vocals by Diaz, Cammish and Chamuel, it also features star supporting turns by Ming-Na Wen, Missi Pyle, Lea DeLaria, Tig Notaro, Kate Pierson of the B-52’s, Peppermint, Broadway’s Beth Malone, and Indigo Girls themselves.
