After recently lending her talents to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Where the Wild Things Are, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O is now teaming up with Disney. The artist has recorded a new song for Tim Burton’s upcoming black & white stop-motion animation Frankenweenie titled Strange Love. It’s now available to stream and it’s a playful, beautiful cut that will hopefully counter some of the darker elements Burton is used to. Check out the song, tracklist and artwork below from Prefix Mag, along with a quote from Karen O via Rolling Stone.
“Tim [Burton] wanted an unconventional unconditional love song. My music inspiration came out of the same era of B movie fright film references sprinkled throughout the film. I went in the direction of exotica and calypso stylistically because it’s quirky, good vibes music of that era and when you throw in a...
“Tim [Burton] wanted an unconventional unconditional love song. My music inspiration came out of the same era of B movie fright film references sprinkled throughout the film. I went in the direction of exotica and calypso stylistically because it’s quirky, good vibes music of that era and when you throw in a...
- 8/20/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Unplug your earholes, it’s Frankenweenie Unleashed! Mark your calendars for the September 25th, 2012 release of this fourteen-song soundtrack to Tim Burton’s black and white stop-motion feature film, Frankenweenie that hits theaters on October 5, 2012 just in time for a spookacular Halloween season.
According to THR, the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, Karen O, Robert Smith, Winona Ryder (who also stars as the voice of Elsa in the film,) Kimbra, Passion Pit, and Neon Trees have contributed songs to Burton’s homage to classic horror films. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Karen O wrote a song called “Strange Love” for Frankenweenie that will play at the closing credits that answers Burton’s request for “an unconventional, unconditional love song:”
“There’s a magic and nostalgia in this film that reminded me of being raised on Tim Burton’s catalog. I was thinking, ‘Oh yeah, this man shaped my...
According to THR, the likes of Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman, Karen O, Robert Smith, Winona Ryder (who also stars as the voice of Elsa in the film,) Kimbra, Passion Pit, and Neon Trees have contributed songs to Burton’s homage to classic horror films. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Karen O wrote a song called “Strange Love” for Frankenweenie that will play at the closing credits that answers Burton’s request for “an unconventional, unconditional love song:”
“There’s a magic and nostalgia in this film that reminded me of being raised on Tim Burton’s catalog. I was thinking, ‘Oh yeah, this man shaped my...
- 8/14/2012
- by Lillian 'zenbitch' Standefer
- ScifiMafia
While DreamWorks released the first official look at Daniel Day-Lewis in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln earlier this week, I'm told a trailer is still a ways off. So, as we inch closer to the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, the awards season is only beginning to rev its engines, which is why updates are few and far between for the time being. Yet, there have been a couple of news bits to share, the first being the announcement Robert Zemeckis' new film Flight will have its world premiere when it serves as the closing night film at the New York Film Festival on October 14. The film stars Denzel Washington as an airline pilot who miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, but after doing so questions concerning who's at fault begin to percolate. I've seen some including Flight in their Best Picture predictions as a potential contender and...
- 8/10/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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