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
3m
Hunger and Flow: PnB Rock
56s
Track Challenge: G-Thing
24m
Drinking Games
1h 34m
Game Face
20m
Game On!
21m
Power Games
44m
Fire Hot Fitness
45m
Drinking Games
1h 38m
Game On
1m
More Rapid-Fire Questions
23m
NYC Winter Games
22m
Fire On The Floor
1h 22m
Keepers of the Game
24m
Video Games-Rated MA
21m
New York, New York
1m
The Cast Answers Rapid-Fire Questions
20m
New Beginnings
45m
New Blood
41m
New Horizons
56s
New Generation
23m
SqueezeIt, Game Boy, Vine, Hannah Montana
44m
New Cage King
1h 39m
A New High
44m
New York City
21m
New Boss of Bounce
21m
Ol' Kitty, New Tricks
22m
New Girl In Town
1m
The New York City Hustle
22m
New York Skate Of Mind
42m
To Shave, or Not to Shave
43s
The Cadets and Their Spankin New Toys
6m
LGBTQIA Community, What Is The New Norm?
23m
Friendster, New Coke, Total Request Live, Betamax
20m
Out With The Old, In With The New
46s
The DCI Struggles of Starting A New Summer
1m
Big Freedia Hits New York City's Pride Parade
Filmmakers To Watch
20m
Back to Business
45m
Maid To Order
1h 16m
Care to Laugh
23m
License to Breed
21m
Welcome To Hollywood
46m
Two to Tango
20m
Right To Twerk
46m
Addicted to Love
1h 43m
Toe to Toe
1h 23m
Kayak to Klemtu
1m
Letter to Myself: Azul
1m
Letter To Myself: Kain
2m
Letter To Myself: T
2m
Letter To Myself: Juan
20m
Who Came To Win?
1m
Letter To Myself: Fran
1m
Letter To Myself: Prism
1m
Letter To Myself: Ronnie
41m
Whitney: Born to Sing
45m
Down to the Wire
1h 21m
Go Back to China
22m
Hail To The King
46m
Welcome to the Jungle
1h 21m
Sea to Shining Sea
20m
Welcome to The 212
4m
G Fella Delivers More Grilling Tips and Talks New Music
1m
Letter To Myself: LaDon
3m
The Exclusive Premiere of Big Freedia's New Music Video, "BigFoot"
56m
George Michael: Easy to Pretend
41m
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Rock
20m
Time To Take 'Em Down
20m
How To Be A Disruptor
20m
That Farm To Table Ish
2m
Got to Be in it To Win it: America's Obsession with the Lottery
10m
Jade Novah Does ASMR with Foam Beads, Talks Beyoncé Impersonations & New Music
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
6m
King Keraun Attempts to Fly Board
8m
Women's Rights & Strengths Coming To Light
20m
The Best Is Yet To Come
20m
That Back To The Future Ish
We Need To Talk About America
6m
Comedians React to SHOCKING US Laws!
1h 39m
The Legend of Baron To'a
5m
Maggie Lindemann Does ASMR with Foam Beads, Talks "Pretty Girl" & Her New EP
16m
Jessenia Does A Self Cleansing ASMR, Talks Life After Tyra Banks Show & New EP
21m
Suck It Up and Go to Mars
20m
It's Hard To Raise Yourself These Days
6m
King Keraun Goes "Back to the Future"
5m
Immigrants Are Starting To Take A Stand!
14m
Where Is It Illegal To Eat Frogs?!
6m
King Keraun Attempts to Become A Ventriloquist
1m
What Not To Ask A Trans Woman
41m
Wearing Your Shower Curtain to the Club
3m
Jessenia Does A Self Cleansing ASMR, Talks Life After Tyra Banks Show & New EP
3m
How To Tie A Tie With Too Short
41m
The Dolly Parton Story: From Rags to Rhinestones
2m
Can Devon and Crystal Come to Some Resolution?
49s
How to make Dave East's Steak and Eggs
1m
What To Expect On Clash of the Corps
6m
