While there’s no pre-Oscar activity more cliché or pointless – besides pretending that they actually matter – than complaining about where the Academy missed the boat and got something wrong, please allow me a moment to complain about where the Academy missed the boat and got something wrong in 2010: the failure to nominate Karen O. and the Kids’ “All is Love” for Best Song…
Where’s the justice? This awards season T Bone Burnett and Karen O have gained plenty of praise for their musical scores for Crazy Heart and Where The Wild Things Are. Now that January is here, Oscar nominations will be out in less than a month, and we’ll surely see their names on the ballot, right? Wrong!
The Oscars just released a statement revealing which songs are nominated for the golden statue. As usual, the list is very lengthy in correlation to the many films released this year. What we find pleasing about this year’s list is the amount of indie artists who are nominated.
We all knew Karen O got her Grammy nod for her work on Where the Wild Things Are when Miley Cyrus got booted, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ front lady has also been nominated for an Oscar. Other notable mentions include Jack White‘s “Fly Farm Blues” from It Might Get Loud, Lykke Li‘s “Possibility” from New Moon, and Jarvis Cocker‘s “Petey’s Song” from Fantastic Mr. Fox. Check the entire list out below!
Miley Cyrus may be on top of the world right now but she can’t always have everything. When the Grammy nominations were revealed, Cyrus received a nod for her song “The Climb” which was released as a single for the Hannah Montana film. However, it was recently revoked when the panel discovered the song was not originally written for the film.
So who’s next in line for the Grammy nomination? Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ Karen O for her work on Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack, and we can’t help but gloat a little bit. It’s about time the indie world has another prevalent presence at the Grammys. The winning speech from The Swell Season‘s Marketa Irgolva at the Oscars two years ago warmed out little indie hearts, and we’re hoping Karen O and The Kids will be able to do the same for the Grammys.
The opening weekend for Where The Wild Things Are was this past weekend and we’ve heard that reactions are everything from crying like a baby to feeling like the movie has been over-hyped. Turning a classic children’s story into a feature film is a lot of responsibility to take on underneath all the pressure from the critics.
Music and film go hand in hand and tunes from a general library just doesn’t cut it these days. Both film and television have been promoting new artists and in return musicians have been earning royalties from commercials. So naturally, musicians have taken advantage of scoring films within the last few years. With that said, we want to know one thing: When you went and saw Where The Wild Things Are this weekend, did the music of Karen O and the Kids do it for you? Did the music belong? Was it distracting or was it enhancing? Vote below to let us know!
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Where The Wild Things Are will be hitting theaters on October 16th, but we can’t wait that long!
The classic children’s book is incredibly exciting for us because 1) We know it’s going to be awesome with screenwriter, Dave Eggers and director Spike Jonze, 2) The trailers have been amazing and 3) Karen O and The Kids composed the entire soundtrack.
If you can barely contain your excitement like us, then you’ll be foaming-at-the-mouth happy to see what we have for you after the jump…
Today on MySpace Music Karen O and the Kids Digital debut their single “All is Love” from the soundtrack of the upcoming Spike Jonze film, Where the Wild Things Are. The single features Karen O and an untrained children’s choir! Go to the official MySpace page to stream the Where the Wild Things Are digital single in its entirety for free.
The highly anticipated movie, Where The Wild Things Are, doesn’t come out until October 16th, but we DO get to hear the soundtrack a little bit earlier than the film’s release. We also just got word that the first single from the compilation is Karen O‘s “All Is Love.” (Take a look at the artwork above!) The track is available starting August 25th. That’s soon!
Today is an especially good day for fans of Karen O, Dave Eggers, and Spike Jonze. Read all about it after the jump!
The newest film from Spike Jonze, an adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, will feature Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Arcade Fire on its soundtrack. The story is about a boy who creates a forest inhabited by many large imaginary monsters, which is to be the background for compositions from Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Arcade Fire’s track Wake Up.
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox also worked on the score with Karen O, who mentioned “bizarre instruments” in the composition. Jonze co-wrote the screenplay with author Dave Eggers and the cast include Forest Whitaker, Paul Dano, Catherine Keener and James Gandolfini.
