Yet these songs are better than Tori Amos' overly theatrical readings of "You Belong to Me" and "Murder He Says," which go beyond amusingly quirky to annoyingly quirky. Seal's "Mona Lisa" and Macy Gray's "Santa Baby" come so close to sounding like the versions popularized by Nat King Cole and Eartha Kitt, respectively, that it almost seems pointless to have recorded the new renditions in the first place. The soundtrack takes the utmost care to sound like an artifact from the early '50s, which is refreshing and frustrating in equal measure.
The soundtrack to Mike Newell's Mona Lisa Smile, a Dead Poets' Society-like film set at a women's college in the '50s, features a wide array of contemporary artists covering standards from that decade.
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