Listen to Arcade Fire's New "Hunger Games" Track
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Canada’s best export—the Arcade Fire—premiered their musical contribution to the upcoming dystopian sci-fi film The Hunger Games this morning. Based on a hot-selling young adult book series, the movie is about 24 kids who are sent into an arena of sorts and forced to fight until one person remains. (Yeah, it’s awesome.)
Régine Chassagne sings the haunting tune, which comes across like an eerie nursery rhyme sung over martial drumming. Arcade Fire definitely isn’t pandering to a crossover audience with this elegiac tune.
“Abraham’s Daughter” will play over the end credits, but it sounds like Win Butler put a lot of thought into writing the song for the film's audience. “I tried to put myself in the headspace of how excited I’d be if this film was coming out when I was 15,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
He also explains the Biblical bend of the track's title. “There’s something in the story of Abraham and Isaac that I think resonates with the themes in the film, like sacrificing children," Butler said. "So we made a weird, alternate-universe version of that, where it’s as if Abraham had a daughter."
Listen to it below while it's on YouTube or over at EW and tell us what you think.
46m
Listen and Learn
45m
Drinking Games
24m
Drinking Games
1h 34m
Game Face
21m
Power Games
20m
Game On!
56s
Track Challenge: G-Thing
44m
Fire Hot Fitness
2m
Game Face - Trailer
23m
NYC Winter Games
1m
More Rapid-Fire Questions
22m
Fire On The Floor
24m
Video Games-Rated MA
21m
New York, New York
1m
The Cast Answers Rapid-Fire Questions
20m
New Beginnings
45m
New Blood
56s
New Generation
44m
New Cage King
1h 39m
A New High
21m
New Boss of Bounce
22m
New Girl In Town
2m
A New High - Trailer
1m
The New York City Hustle
22m
New York Skate Of Mind
43s
The Cadets and Their Spankin New Toys
6m
LGBTQIA Community, What Is The New Norm?
20m
Out With The Old, In With The New
45m
Maid To Order
Filmmakers To Watch
46m
Two to Tango
1h 43m
Toe to Toe
20m
Right To Twerk
23m
License to Breed
1h 16m
Care to Laugh
21m
Welcome To Hollywood
46s
The DCI Struggles of Starting A New Summer
20m
Who Came To Win?
2m
Toe to Toe - Trailer
1h 21m
Sea to Shining Sea
20m
Welcome to The 212
1h 21m
Go Back to China
22m
Hail To The King
46m
Welcome to the Jungle
2m
Care to Laugh - Trailer
45m
Down to the Wire
4m
G Fella Delivers More Grilling Tips and Talks New Music
41m
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Rock
41m
Taylor Swift: Dare to Dream
20m
That Farm To Table Ish
20m
Time To Take 'Em Down
20m
How To Be A Disruptor
2m
Sea to Shining Sea - Trailer
56m
George Michael: Easy to Pretend
1m
Go Back to China - Trailer
3m
The Exclusive Premiere of Big Freedia's New Music Video, "BigFoot"
2m
Got to Be in it To Win it: America's Obsession with the Lottery
1m
New York Rapper G Fella Pens Anthem for Playoff Knicks: G-Thing
1m
How to Make DaniLeigh's Pastelón
44s
How to Make Ally Brooke's Enchiladas
20m
That Back To The Future Ish
6m
Comedians React to SHOCKING US Laws!
We Need To Talk About America
1h 39m
The Legend of Baron To'a
8m
Women's Rights & Strengths Coming To Light
6m
King Keraun Attempts to Fly Board
20m
It's Hard To Raise Yourself These Days
21m
Suck It Up and Go to Mars
6m
King Keraun Goes "Back to the Future"
5m
Immigrants Are Starting To Take A Stand!
1m
What Not To Ask A Trans Woman
1m
The Legend of Baron To'a - Trailer
41m
Wearing Your Shower Curtain to the Club
6m
King Keraun Attempts to Become A Ventriloquist
14m
Where Is It Illegal To Eat Frogs?!
49s
How to make Dave East's Steak and Eggs
2m
Can Devon and Crystal Come to Some Resolution?
1m
What To Expect On Clash of the Corps
1m
Marissa Challenges Her Mom To A $50 Bet
1m
We're Here to Help: LGBTQIA+ Resources & Charities
6m
Where Is It ILLEGAL to Send Unwanted Pizzas?
20m
Mom Wants Me to Find a Tinder Match
7m
Is It Illegal To Trip A Horse Up?
6m
King Keraun Attempts to Become An "Archery Master"
1m
We Need To Talk About America - S2 Trailer
6m
Comedians React to Unbelievably Strange Laws in the US
1m
Casey Brings Her Hosting Skills To iCandy Nightclub
2m
Jesus Trejo Gets People to Revel their Deepest Confessions
2m
Yesenia Gives Financial Advice To Mia | Clash of The Corps
9m
Peder Cho Transforms Basic Cargo Shorts to a Bucket Hat
9m
Chapter 3 Goes From Tagging Graffiti to An Artist & Producer
1m
Clash of The Corps Is Putting DCI Stereotypes To Rest
2m
G Fella and Suits Back to Their Roots: G-Thing
6m
King Keraun Attempts to Become An "Archery Master" YouTube
1m
How to Make A$AP Ferg's Homemade Cookie Apple Pie
2m
Who Will be Cut from Team Freedia to Save Finances?
17m
Lena Waithe On Making What She Wants To See (Extended Cut)
8m
King Keraun Learns To Make Bread From Scratch From A Baker
1m
Dancin' On Air Producer Once Told Madonna to Clean Her Mess
2m
