your ears are wrecking, your hearing damage [you wish you felt better]

[intertribal]

I haven't read much in the way of Twilight (like a few excerpts), but I own the soundtrack to both movies because they are pretty freaking awesome IMO.  "Eyes on Fire" by Blue Foundation is one of my favorites from the first (which I never would have ever found otherwise), and off the second, "Hearing Damage" by Thom Yorke.  Keep in mind almost all these songs are used sloppily in the movies, because the movies are like way out of its league compared to the soundtracks.  But see, that's my issue with the whole Twilight movie franchise.  Elements of it - cinematography, music choice, setting - seem to belong in a way better movie.  And then you see Pattinson and you remember they're albino Fortune 500 vampires and you're like, "oh, man."

Then of course there's the classic Twilight song, "Decode" by Paramore.  I'm a sucker for the pop song that tries to be epic (I like Shiny Toy Guns for similar reasons), so naturally I'm a big fan of "Decode."  My favorite part is near the end where she's all, "I think you know!" and the electric guitar goes "rarr, rarr, rarr, rarr"... yeah, I can't narrate music.   But it's basically like this dramatic musical telenovela bitch slap, and it's great. 

So I was trying to listen to the lyrics, and I convinced myself that this song was a bad choice for Twilight, because it's actually about a couple that is having serious problems.  There's "How did we get here?/  I used to know you so well," there's "Not gonna ever own what's mine when you're always taking sides/ But you won't take away my pride, no not this time."  My favorite, though, was: "But you think that I can't see what kind of man that you are/ if you're a man at all."  It's like, ohhhhh, burn.  And I wanted it for my OTP.

Then I looked it up and it turned out Paramore's Hayley Williams wrote it for Twilight.  So "if you're a man at all" literally implies that he's a vampire.  

Sigh.  And that's what I get for listening to the Twilight soundtrack, badam-ching.

P.S.  Saw Splice the other night.  It's definitely an uncomfortable movie, with a rather uncomfortable (perhaps problematic?) narrative arc as well, but I don't think it's going to poison the wells of society or anything.  I think I'm going to come down somewhere in the middle on this one.  Well-made, but didn't know where to go with the premise (and hey, don't I know how that goes!).  Still, some interesting things to say about sexuality and parenting. 

Comments

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I love both soundtracks as well, and even liked the sequence in New Moon where the "Hearing Damage" was played (though in the words of my friend who went to see it with me "half the acting talent in the franchise died of a heart attack during that song")

Also, a what you said regarding Splice. Yeah, uncomfortable, definitely problematic, but not... deserving of all the hate it seems to be getting.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Ha! I wasn't much a fan of that sequence, but I guess at least they weren't talking...

I can see how Splice turned people off - it puts a lot of stuff on screen that seems taboo. I think it's a shame that when taboo things are put up on screen the backlash seems almost automatic, regardless of the context the movie puts these scenes in. I think that may contribute to that feeling I get when I watch a lot of movies - that I've seen it all before. That I can predict what's going to happen, because there's limits nobody crosses and there's stances that everybody's supposed to take. Sorry, rambling.

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

Re: Splice, I haven't seen it myself, but any movie with Sarah Polley, well, you've got to be prepared for the ick factor. She's an actress who certainly likes to push the envelope. Probably all of those days in Avonlea, and now she's got to make up for lost time.

If she's in it you are in for it. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I love Sarah Polley. I haven't seen too many of her movies - one I didn't end up really liking, No Such Thing - but I love, love, love The Sweet Hereafter (and she can sing!), and I thought she was awesome in Dawn of the Dead.

Never even heard of Avonlea, which I guess is a good thing.

[wendigomountain.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen No Such Thing, but the cover art alone was enough to put me off. The Sweet Hereafter was excellent, though a total mindfuck. She was in one called "the Secret Life of Words" which was very good.

Avonlea was the continuing saga(?) of Avonlea, after Anne of Green Gables. It was a Canadian show that played for like 56 seasons. It's entertaining, but it's like Sarah Polley is a completely different actress now.