A Little Mood Music

People Magazine
April 19, 1999

His hit "Wicked Game" set the sultry mood for 1990's Wild at Heart, and now another Chris Isaak song, "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing," is generating heat on the trailer of the late Stanley Kubrik's psychosexual(is that really a word?) thriller Eyes Wide Shut. "I don't think it hurts to have Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman making love to your music," says Isaak, 42, who will perform on An All-Star Tribute To Johnny Cash, airing April 18 on TNT. The crooner, whose song was originally featured on his 1995 album Forever Blue, was quick to give his blessing to the filmmakers. "I said,'I just have one question: When you're using my music, is there nudity or violence?'" he recalls. "They said yes to both. And I said,'Okay, we're a go!"

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