Listen To The Arcade Fire’s “Hunger Games” Song

Spoiler alert: it’s a million times better than Taylor Swift’s song on the soundtrack.

The Arcade Fire

Via: nme.com

The band’s frontman, Winn Butler, talked to Entertainment Weekly about inspiration for the song:

“Our whole approach was to get into the world and try to create something that serves the story and the film. 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, apocryphal, alternate-universe version of that, where it’s as if Abraham had a daughter — kind of a metaphor for Katniss.”

The band recorded another song called “Horn Of Plenty” that they envisioned playing inside the Capitol during the games:

We were interested in making music that would be more integral in the movie, just as a mental exercise, and there’s an anthem that runs throughout the books, the national anthem of the fascist Capitol. So as a thought experiment, we tried to write what that might sound like. It’s like the Capitol’s idea of itself, basically. It’s not a pop song or anything, more of an anthem that could be playing at a big sporting event like the Games. So we did a structure for that, and then James Newton Howard made a movie-score version of it that happens in several places in the film.”

Listen to “Abraham’s Daughter” below:

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