Goofs for
Music and Lyrics (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: The video for Pop Goes My Heart is given a year of 1984, but the top keyboard being played was the Roland D-50, which did not come out until 1987.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alex and Sophie are recording the second take of the song they wrote, Alex starts the computer playing and recording, but when it cuts to a shot from behind them towards the computer, the track is not even playing, let alone recording.
  
  
• Continuity: Watch the ring on Alex Fletcher's hand. It changes between the middle and ring finger multiple times in the movie.
  
  

• Continuity: When Alex and Sophie are having breakfast, Alex has a muffin. When you see him talking to Sophie facing her, you see his muffin. It goes from eaten out of to untouched repeatedly during the scene.
  
  
• Continuity: During some of the scenes in Alex's apartment, there is a bag of Doritos on the coffee table, as they cut back and forth to the table, it appears and disappears randomly.
  
  
• Continuity: When Sophie and Alex are having dinner at her sister's house, Alex is served a very large pile of mashed potatoes. In the next shot, the potatoes are gone. In the shot after that, they're back.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the videoclip featuring Alex Fletcher in "Pop goes my heart" an automated infusion pump system is visible. These kind of intravenous drug administration systems weren't yet available in 1984.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alex and Sophie are talking in the "Weight Not" clinic office, the box of files in front of Sophie disappears in one shot.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Sophie is babysitting they show her playing Dance Dance Revolution (1998) (VG). When they show the screen there are no arrows traveling up the screen, yet she is still dancing. When you are playing there are arrows traveling up the screen indicating which part of the beat pad you have to step on.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alex and Cora are singing, Cora's hair changes positions during shots.
  
  
• Continuity: At the show, Sophie's necklaces changes positions from place to place.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene when Sophie and Alex are having a bite to eat in a café, Sophie's glass of coffee varies throughout the scene. First it's almost full, then the amount of coffee goes down, and then it goes back up. It varies from shot to shot.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the beginning of the movie, while visiting Alex Fletcher's apartment, Chris Riley sets a can of Diet Coke on the table clearly displaying the name. Later the can is turned and the label can no longer be read.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alex and Sophie are at breakfast, Sophie's cup changes positions several times between shots. Many times, she will lift the cup to take a drink, then in the next shot the cup is back on the table.
  
  
• Continuity: During the coffee house scene where Sophie tells Alex about the book, her hands change positions between shots, from both hands on the table, to her lap and back, depending on whether the shot is facing Sophie or Alex.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene at the City Bakery, both cups change positions many times (Just look at the logos on them) and so do the positions of the characters' hands.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Sophie and the lady with Chris at the restaurant change clothes to make Sophie look better for Sloan. The Lady is about 6" taller than Sophie but both sets of clothing fit them both perfectly.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: There is a scene where Alex and Sophie are walking to the coffee shop. The camera is traveling behind Sophie and Alex but you can clearly see that the audio is not synchronized with the movement of Alex' lips.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the scene where Sophie and Alex are in the café and he sings "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day..." When it cuts to the camera viewing Sophie, you can see that his lips are not synced with his vocals.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Sophie and Alex are celebrating their success after delivering their demo to Cora on the helicopter pad, Sophie is laughing and jumping up and down when the camera is focused on her, but she is completely still when the camera is focused on Alex. This happens throughout their conversation as the camera's focus changes.
  
  
• Continuity: Early on in the movie when Chris is visiting at Alex's house, it shows them starting to sit down on the couch. The camera changes angles and they are up again, starting to sit down.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Another instrument anachronism: In the video for ‘Pop Goes My Heart’, the bassist is shown playing a Steinberger Synapse series bass guitar. While aesthetically somewhat similar to Steinberger models in the 1980s, the Synapse line wasn't released until the 2000s. (Also of note: he's playing a right-handed bass left-handed, but this is somewhat common considering that many models of guitar are and have been unavailable left-handed.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Alex is in the music shop sitting at the piano trying to convince Sophie she can be a lyricist, there is an obvious gawker walking by.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Alex and Sophie are in the piano store, and he is trying to convince her to become his lyricist, as he is playing a piano, the camera reveals the inside of the piano, the piano's hammers are not moving even though music can be heard coming from the instrument.
  
  
• Continuity: When Alex and Sophie are walking by the bookstore, you can see Sophie's hair looks like her hair color is growing out half-way down her head. Scenes after that show her hair is fully one color.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bakery scene, Alex's muffin switches from being on a plate to being on the table several times.
  
  
• Continuity: After Alex leaves the stage his agent says, "You've gotta do the encore". Alex raises the towel to his face. Alex says "Do I really have to?' and lowers a bottle of water, instead of the towel.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Cora is speaking with Alex in the recording studio control room, she is wearing a shirt that says RAMONES (her hair is covering the S). When Cora and Alex are singing in the recording studio, her shirt says JOHNNY and has a different logo on it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Alex and Cora are singing 'Way Back Into Love' at the concert, there is a shot of Chris and his daughter in the audience, and they turn to look at each other and smile. The video of this clip has been 'reversed' (it is playing backwards); you can tell by watching the people clapping behind them, and the daughter's hair as she turns her head.
  
  
• Continuity: Right when Sophie rearranges the furniture on Alex's apartment, when he says "much better" Sophie smiles at him in a very pleased way and keeps smiling but as the scene goes on the shot changes showing her so concentrated writing, which she was not doing nothing of that at all.
  
  
• Continuity: Alex and Sophie are walking down the street where Sophie sees Sloan Cates' book. Walking on the sidewalk, Sophie looks to her right then hides as if she had seen Sloan Cates on her right, but when she comes out of hiding, the book is on the sidewalk she is on, just a few steps in front of her.
  
  

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