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Karen O premieres Tim Burton film soundtrack
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 August 2012
‘Strange Love’, the “unconventional unconditional love song” Karen O has composed for Tim Burton’s new animated film ‘Frankenweenie Unleashed’, is now available to preview online. The track will play over the end credits of the movie, which premieres on 17 Oct, just in time for Halloween. Its original soundtrack, which also features Passion Pit, Grouplove, Robert Smith, ‘Frankenweenie’ voiceover artiste Winona Ryder and a duet by Grace Potter and The Flaming Lips, is released on 25 Sep.
Interviewed by Rolling Stone about her part in it, O said: “There’s a magic and nostalgia in this film that reminded me of being raised on Tim Burton’s catalogue. I was thinking: ‘Oh yeah, this man shaped my artistic sensibility over the past 20 years alongside thousands of other impressionable offbeat youths’. Tim wanted an unconventional unconditional love song”.
She added: “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 Theremin solo, it’s a marriage made in heaven. I remember ‘Beetlejuice’ introducing me to the genius of Harry Belafonte’s calypso record, so I wanted to give a nod to that, too”.
Hear all that in ‘Strange Love’ here.
