Direkt från Emily :)Yes ... It’s official. Our song “All Yours”, co-written with the legendary film composer Howard Shore and performed by Metric, is going to be featured in the movie Eclipse, the next installment in theworldwide phenomenon known as the Twilight saga.
I've always wanted to write music for film, but I never expected to start withsomething on this scale, so you can imagine how surprised I was when outof nowhere I got a phone call from Howard Shore, who I’d never met oreven spoken with before. Most people know him as the man who wrote theacclaimed score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I grew up onShore's earlier works-- his score for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch incollaboration with jazz great Ornette Coleman still stands as one of themost ambitious & unusual scores out there.
To my amazement, Howard was calling to ask me to work with him on his latest project:scoring the next Twilight movie, Eclipse. He wanted Jimmy & I towrite the theme song for the pivotal last scene in the movie,integrating the music from his existing score into a composition thatwould express the emotional ending of the film. Seriously?!?! The lyrics would have to be in the voice of the maincharacter Bella, and we had to stay within the confines of harmonic andmelodic themes Howard had in mind for the last scene.
We've had songs from our albums licensed for use in movies & tv shows before,but composing for a score was completely different. Every day as thesong progressed--from sitting at the piano with Jimmy in NYC recordingacoustic versions and reading the script (see photo below), to workingat Howard's studio upstate, to tracking vocals at our own studio Giantin Toronto, to mixing at Electric Lady with Howard on the line fromAbbey Road in London-- every step of the way we did our best to fulfillHoward’s vision of the film's last moments.
Still, everybody knows the movie business is insanely competitive, and for things likethis, it’s never a sure thing until the movie is done and the picture islocked...B
ut as of today, it's happening. Our song, “All Yours”, is in the movie and will be the lead off track from thesoundtrack, to be released on June 8th.
I don't have to tell you what an honor it was to be hand picked by Howard to do this work. We aremassively grateful for the opportunity & hope you all enjoyMetric's first ever film composition.
Now, back to reality...
xo emily
Be Safe/ronjiisss
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