Grammy nominations for songs off the Hunger Games soundtrack

Grammy nominations are out and songs off the Hunger Games soundtrack snagged a couple!

And Taylor Swift tweeted about it:

Watch the Grammys on Feb 10 on CBS to find out who wins!

Rolling Stone: The Hunger Games Companion Album

Very cool article from Rolling Stone about Taylor Swift and the other artists involved with the companion album:

Taylor Swift became famous with diary-entry-like songs about old exes and school bullies. But for her first new tunes since 2010, Swift is telling stories about a fictional character from the future – The Hunger Games' lead character, Katniss Everdeen, played by rising star Jennifer Lawrence in the new blockbuster movie – with a knack for hitting bull's-eyes and spotting poisonous berries. "Slipping into her mind was such a wonderful break," says Swift, who wrote "Safe & Sound" and "Eyes Open" for Hunger Games' T Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack. "It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. It was almost like a vacation to get to write from someone else's perspective."
When Lionsgate tapped Burnett to record new songs for the movie last summer, he corralled a serious lineup of artists: Swift, Arcade Fire, the Decemberists, Miranda Lambert, Maroon 5, Kid Cudi and Neko Case all contribute original music to the film. Arcade Fire's track, "Abraham's Daughter," came together after Win Butler and Régine Chassagne met Burnett in October at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit near San Francisco. "He's a great dude to talk with about music, and that was kind of the driving force," says Butler. "We're kind of taking a break right now, and it was a really fun little project to do with the band."
 

Read the rest of the article HERE!

UPDATED: Arcade Fire's "Abraham's Daughter" EW Exclusive

Check out this EW exclusive!

Hear the Arcade Fire's 'Hunger Games' song, 'Abraham's Daughter' -- EXCLUSIVE

The T Bone Burnett-produced Hunger Games soundtrack — featuring artists ranging from Taylor Swift and the Decemberists to Maroon 5 and Miranda Lambert — doesn’t hit streets until March 20.

But EW has the first full listen to the soundtrack’s lead song, the Arcade Fire’s “Abraham’s Daughter.”

Arcade frontman Win Butler spoke to EW about his inspiration for the song, which will play over the movie’s closing credits: “I tried to put myself in the headspace of how excited I’d be if this film was coming out when I was 15. I still remember hearing Radiohead’s ‘Exit Music (for a Film)’ in [Baz Luhrmann’s] Romeo + Juliet when I was that age.”

“Our whole approach was to get into the world and try to create something that serves the story and the film,” he continued. ”There’s something in the story of Abraham and Isaac that I think resonates with the themes in the film, like sacrificing children. So we made a weird, alternate-universe version of that, where it’s as if Abraham had a daughter — kind of a metaphor for Katniss.”

Listen to the track on EW.com: http://music-mix.ew.com/2012/03/02/hunger-games-arcade-fire-songabrahams-daughter/

source: EW

Edit: Unfortunately, for whatever reasons the track is disabled. But you can listen to it HERE

Arcade Fire and The Decemberists to be on The Hunger Games Soundtrack

With the release of Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars' song Safe & Sound, we've gotten wind of two other artists to be on The Hunger Games soundtrack and we're thrilled!

Movie studio Lionsgate said on Friday that Burnett has joined forces with Swift, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire and The Civil Wars to create original songs for the film, set for release in March 2012. 

"We are thrilled to have such a hauntingly beautiful companion album taking shape," said Joe Drake, co-COO of Lionsgate.

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More details have been released.

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, who won the 2011 Grammy for album of the year, also wrote a song with Burnett entitled "Horn Of Plenty." The Decemberists did their own song, "One Engine," also to appear on The Hunger Games companion album.

Horn of Plenty is most likely in reference to the Cornucopia. One Engine could be a reference to the train ride?

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An unofficial twitter who reports news on Arcade Fire, claims to have spoken with the bands management and learned that the song is actually an instrumental piece written by Win and Regine, and is not a song from the band as a whole.


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