This newest movie version of The Great Gatsby had to do something to stand out from the other 5 Great Gatsby movies. Why? Because all the other Great Gatsby movies were absolutely terrible. The Great Gatsby is known as the great American novel that can not be made into a great movie. All versions of the Great Gatsby, while some may have done well in the box office, have been labeled as horrible movies. So director Baz Luhrumann decided to try something different with his adaption with GG. He has already turned Romeo and Juliet into a contemporary film in a modern time. So what Baz did with GG was he kept the setting of the film in 1922, but he decided to blend the jazz music of 1922 with contemporary upbeat rap/hip hop music to create a unique musical score for the film. Baz brought in huge names in the music industry such as Jay Z, Beyonce, Will.I.AM, and many more. The rap music blended into the jazz gives the film an old feeling of the 1920's but it also adds a new hip cool feeling to the film to keep it feeling exciting, just as jazz music was new and exciting in the 20's. The unexpected music added something different to the film which hopefully made it different enough from the other films so that it is not bad. I think the music definitely fit in with the mood of the movie in the fact that it was new and exciting, the song "Bang Bang" fit in perfectly with the party scene to give it an exciting cool kinda weird feel to it. All in all I would say that the new music certainly didn't hurt the movie.