The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Movie - Music

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The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Movie Featurette - Music
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00:04 Very early, I remember being in my backyard and speaking to Suzanne Collins
00:08 when we were talking about the book Ballad.
00:11 And it was in that call that she actually said that there's a huge musical element
00:15 to the story that sort of comes from the old ballads from Scotland and
00:19 England and Ireland.
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00:30 And so we hired a great music producer and songwriter, Dave Cobb.
00:37 And he and Suzanne had long talks about the history and
00:41 the sort of references for each of the songs that she had written.
00:43 >> Suzanne Collins tells me every single detail on the feel and the sound and
00:47 the inspiration for the songs.
00:48 It's gonna be fun to take all this history of maybe British Isles music and
00:52 Southern music and
00:53 mash it all together in this dystopian way in this future.
00:57 And kind of keep it raw and rugged and
00:59 find a sound that isn't a sound that's been had before, you know?
01:02 >> Can't take my past.
01:07 Can't take my history.
01:11 You can take my pa, but his name's a mystery.
01:18 >> So it's casting the right players.
01:21 I'm having this incredible group of people come down and play on it.
01:24 >> The artist that he works with and assembled for these sessions,
01:28 the music he composed, the way that it really fits Suzanne's lyrics.
01:33 Every song, as we would hear the demos, they stay with you.
01:37 They're so specific.
01:39 There's not any two songs that you mix up with the other.
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01:45 >> When I got all of the scratch recordings for the music,
01:48 I just fell in love and was like, we got this part right for sure.
01:52 >> I really admire the songs Dave contributed.
01:55 There's certainly a rural aspect to the District 12 music,
02:01 and I think that's been in there from the very beginning.
02:04 And so to me, it was just consistent extension of what we were stylistically
02:09 trying to achieve.
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02:14 >> In a lot of ways, this is really the first time they've had a singing character
02:18 like this.
02:18 And I think that's gonna be the fun part of the film is discovering the sound of
02:22 Lucy Gray.
02:22 [MUSIC]
02:32 >> Singing for her, and this is where we really got lucky.
02:36 Not only could she do the sort of pre-record in studio versions of these
02:40 songs.
02:40 [MUSIC]
02:50 >> But we also knew that once we had her on set, Rachel really could do it.
03:00 It's just so easy for her.
03:02 So it was just great to be able to go in and do these musical moments with her and
03:07 just know how comfortable she was in that zone.
03:10 [MUSIC]
03:16 >> She and Dave Cobb and the musicians were really able to sort of capture that
03:20 kind of 1920s to 1930s sort of Appalachian quality that we all loved and
03:25 we were all aiming for.
03:27 And I think it's just a great added element to the movie and to the story.
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