The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 [Original Soundtrack]

1	Rock & Roll / Eric Hutchinson 4:03
2	Together / Michelle Branch 4:07
3	Sunset Man / James Otto 3:31
4	No One's Aware / Jack Savoretti 3:28
5	Warm Whispers / Missy Higgins 3:15
6	Friday Night / Craig David 3:34
7	Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit) / Noisettes 3:00
8	5 Times Out of 100 / Hot Hot Heat 3:02
9	Girls Just Want to Have Fun / Cyndi Lauper 3:56
10	You Are Mine / MUTEMATH 4:46
11	Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You) / Aqualung 3:49

Barnes & Noble

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 soundtrack features music by Cyndi Lauper, Missy Higgins, Craig David, and Hot Hot Heat. Eric Hutchinson's "Rock & Roll" is the first single off the album. Additionally, the soundtrack contains "Together," a previously unreleased, original song by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Michelle Branch.

All Music Guide

Chronologically, the 11 songs on the "music from the motion picture" soundtrack album for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 range from Cyndi Lauper's '80s evergreen "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" to Michelle Branch's newly written end title summing-up "Together" ("We belong together...We'll be strong forever"). Musically, they include James Otto's country effort "Sunset Man" and Craig David's R&B tune "Friday Night." But for the most part, this is a miscellany of mediocre pop music of the early 21st century, presumably the kind of thing one or more of the four late-teen principals in the picture might be expected to have on her iPod. The selection and sequencing seem to owe something to the compilers of the Now That's What I Call Music! series, as the musical styles switch from pop to country to R&B to punk pop and back to pop/rock. But none of this is memorable, and some of it doesn't make sense. Why is Eric Hutchinson's leadoff song called "Rock & Roll" when it's set to a simplified ska beat? While the album isn't quite dismissible as a Warner Bros. Records label sampler designed more to do favors to friends than to assemble music of any quality, it's a close call. William Ruhlmann