When the list of tracks on the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 soundtrack was revealed last month, we were acutely aware of two things: 1.) Muse were nowhere to be found for the first time in the vamp franchise’s music history, and 2.) just as the sun is peaking out on the cover art, things had gotten slightly more poppy with the inclusion of Bruno Mars and Christina Perri.
Pop chart mainstay Mars’ “It Will Rain” was given the plum opportunity of being selected the first single off the Breaking Dawn soundtrack. The Grammy winner’s angsty love song anchors tracks by lesser-known (by the mainstream, at least) artists such as Mia Mammoth, Sleeping At Last and The Features. (And to think, the Edward/Bella/Jacob triangle could have possibly been even more bright if only Sia’s contribution hadn’t been axed.)
Reflecting back on the very first Twilight soundtrack, from 2008, it was peppered with dark and gloomy jams by Muse, of course, as well as artists like MUTEMATH, Paramore, Black Ghosts and Linkin Park.
But by last year’s Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight saga, the music landscape in general had become decidedly more pop-leaning since ’08, and Cee Lo Green and Florence + The Machine (not to mention Sia) crept onto the tie-in soundtrack.
The full album of music from Breaking Dawn – Part 1 will be released on November 8, while the film itself hits theaters in November 18. Are you pleased with the new direction the soundtracks seem to be veering in?
No matter how many talented people they throw into the soundtrack of the movie….the movie is doomed to be another epic fail. Yeah…it will make a bunch of money ….. and fans will most likely rave that it’s the most amazing thing ever made in Cinema history……. and it will most likely win every MTV movie award it is nominated for….but none of that can hide the fact that the entire franchise has been EXTREMELY poorly done. Anyone with half of a brain should be able to tell by the trailer alone that this movie will be hilariously bad.
It scares me that so many people find these movies entertaining and engaging despite the horrific acting, the cheesy and tacky script, and the fact that Bella is the most whiny and unlikeable character ever written in literature. Has talent completely died in Hollywood?
I was looking forward to the soundtrack more than the actually movie and really wouldn’t have excepted Bruno Mars as the lead single or even on the album at all. I’m a fan of his, but hoped the album would be more like the first Twilight soundtrack. I wish Sia was on it and when I heard somebody from the film would been on the soundtrack, I think everybody was hoping it was Robert Pattinson and not Mia Maestro (no offence to her). Hopefully the rest of the songs will be more alternative/rock and not too pop/soul like Bruno Mars.
Why is there no MUSE on the Breaking Dawn Soundtrack list?
There has been a MUSE song for each movie.
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The New Moon’s soundtrack is better than Breaking Dawn. It is not surprising because the movie was also better
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