DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE WANT ‘NEW MOON’ STARS IN ‘EQUINOX’ VIDEO
In a new interview with Deathcab For Cutie, who are confirmed to be on the New Moon movie soundtrack (read more about this here), the band talks about how having been to Forks helped them pen their song for the soundtrack, how the opportunity came about for them to end up on the soundtrack, how they’d like to have New Moon stars like Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson in the music video for the song, and more:
Harmer knows a thing or two about Forks (for the record, he says it’s “very nice” there), and he used that knowledge to help his Death Cab mates pen “Meet Me on the Equinox.” The song will debut on MTV.com on Sunday, September 13, the day of the MTV Video Music Awards. It’s a song the band would’ve been endlessly proud of even if it didn’t get picked to be the lead single from the “New Moon” soundtrack (which hits stores October 20).“We wanted to record a song that we loved and we would use on an album or anywhere and submit it to this process, and if they passed on it — if they were like, ‘Hey, you know what? This isn’t quite right for us, thanks a lot for trying’ — we’d still have a song out that we’d be proud of, that we could put somewhere else. For us, it was a no-lose situation,” Harmer explained. “What was most important for us was to get the material right first … and it tied into these films, especially ‘New Moon,’ because if you strip away all the vampirism and the werewolves and the Northwest and everything, basically, the ‘Twilight’ series is just a big romance novel. It’s a big story about love, and that’s a major theme for us.”
And as luck would have it, the tune did get picked, which means Death Cab are now gearing up to shoot a video for the song (they’ll film it later this week in Toronto). And though details about the clip are still slim, Harmer seems to be onto something with his idea — one that will no doubt endear him even further to “Twilight” fans.
“The safe route would be to go with the straight performance video, like that Paramore video. But I don’t think we’re going to be outside in the woods … you know, been there, done that. I don’t think we’re going to try to cut a narrative in where we’re all dressed up like vampires running around with fake teeth in,” he laughed. “I’m of the mind-set that the more Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner you can throw in the video, the more popular the video is going to be. Nobody wants to look at us, so we’ll probably be standing in the shadows.”
Check out the full article from MTV here.
Are you eager to hear Death Cab’s song for the New Moon soundtrack? What do you think about their idea for the music video? Would you prefer they have some of the New Moon stars in it or would you prefer they take the route that Paramore did for their “Decode” video?
