Me Before You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various Artists
The romance that unfolds in Me Before You is timeless, but the film’s soundtrack grounds the action in the mid-’10s with profoundly tender songs from the era’s pop elite. The Erich Lee remix of X Ambassadors’ searching “Unsteady” balances the lyrics’ vulnerability with dramatic string flourishes; Imagine Dragons’ “Not Today” places Dan Reynolds’ wail amid a piano-tinged dreamscape. On quiet storm-evoking “Till the End,” a besotted Jessie Ware holds nothing back.