Here are two things you never thought you'd find in the same sentence: Repo! The Genetic Opera and Oscar.
But the Paris Hilton-featuring stinker could end up being an Academy Award winner come February now that three songs from the Rocky Horror-emulating musical have ended up on the list of Best Original Song contenders.
"Chromaggia," "Chase the Morning" and "Zydrate Anatomy" have a lot of competition ahead of them, though, including 11 tunes from High School Musical 3: Senior Year, the Miley Cyrus-sung "I Thought I Lost You" from Bolt (meaning Cyrus might actually have a reason to show up at the Oscars this year), "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" from Hamlet 2 and Jack White and Alicia Keys' "Another Way to Die" from Quantum of Solace.
Then again, no James Bond theme has ever won the top prize, and movie musicals tend to get the shaft once big-name artists have filed their contributions to the rest of the year's soundtracks.
Among the Grammy-reminiscent names in the bunch are Peter Gabriel's "Down to Earth" for Best Animated Feature frontrunner WALL-E, Will.i.am's "The Traveling Song" from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Beyoncé's "Once in a Lifetime" from Cadillac Records and Norah Jones' "The Story" from her acting debut, My Blueberry Nights.
For all you tastemakers out there: Robyn Hitchcock, whose "Up to Our Nex" is on the Rachel Getting Married soundtrack, also made the list, as did Jenny Lewis' "Barking at the Moon" from Bolt, Jamie Cullum's title song from Gran Torino and the Charlie Kaufman-penned "Little Person," sung by Deanna Storey, from Synecdoche, New York.
There is also a tried-and-true Oscar winner in the mix: Bruce Springsteen, who won in 1994 for "Streets of Philadelphia," is in the initial running thanks to his title song from The Wrestler.
In all, 49 songs made the first cut, with pieces from Slumdog Millionaire, Wanted, Nights in Rodanthe, The Women, Australia, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Role Models and Yes Man also giving their respective films a shot at some Oscar love.
Nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards will be announced Jan. 22, and the honors will be handed out Feb. 22 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.