Watch: Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars in 'Safe and Sound' clip from 'The Hunger Games'
Plus, hear the Decemberists' song and check out the track listing
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It’s a cold, cold world out there, but Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars will be there to protect us. In the video for “Safe & Sound,” from “The Hunger Games,” the threesome vow that “no one can hurt you now,” but it looks like our odds aren’t good.
The video, which has a bleak, winter chill feel to it, even though Swift is dressed in a billowy white summery dress, opens with The Civil Wars’ Joy Mitchell and John Paul White in a cabin with a roaring fire. So they’re fine, but what about Swift, who seems destined to roam the plains with no shelter? Even the trees are barren. She seems slightly bothered, but mainly she’s looking beatific as she walks the land as if she’s the last person left on earth. She does see a deer, but the deer comes to an untoward end.
[More after the jump...]
There’s no movie footage interspersed with the clip, and, in fact, the only obvious reference to the book/movie is when Swift makes her way into another cabin(seemingly not the one with The Civil Wars in it ) and she fleetingly picks up a Mockingjay pin.
In an interview with Swift that aired around MTV’s world premiere today, she said that it was her favorite video that she’s made and it gave her “chills” to watch it. As for if she were in her own version of “Hunger Games,” she thinks “I think I would just be the person who runs and hides,” no hunting or gathering for her. “There are a few ways that Katniss has to kill people, but she does it in an indirect way. That’s something I would try to do.”
After the studio approached Swift about making music for the movie, she read the book in two days and was “immersed” in it. She ended up writing a “death lullaby,” which was very different from what she had expected to pen.
There was plenty of other “Hunger Games” news released today, including the March 20 soundtrack album’s full line up. The Decemberists’ contribution, the driving, urgent “One Engine” also appeared on Hypable today. Swift's video is below the track listing.
1. "Safe & Sound" (feat. The Civil Wars) by Taylor Swift
2. "Eyes Wide Open" by Taylor Swift
3. "Abraham's Daughter" by Arcade Fire
4. "The Ruler & The Killer" by Kid Cudi
5. "Run Daddy Run" (feat. Pistol Annies) by Miranda Lambert
6. "Kingdom Come" by The Civil Wars
7. "One Engine" by The Decemberists
8. "Take The Heartland" by Glen Hansard
9. "Lover Is Childlike" by The Low Anthem
10. "Dark Days" by Punch Brothers
11. "Tomorrow Will Be Kinder" by The Secret Sisters
12. "Just a Game" by Birdy
13. "Oh Come & Sing" by Ella Mae Bowen
14. "Rules" by Jayme Dee
15. "Reaping Day" by Carolina Chocolate Drops
16. "Give Me Something" I'll Remember by Neko Case
17. Video "Safe & Sound" (Bonus Video) by Taylor Swift
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February 14, 2012 at 3:59AM EST Reply to Commenttheres lots of refrences in the video about "the hunger games" its just that a person would have to have read the book and think about the locations where taylor is walking. the berry bushes is the first nod (a big part of the story is about the kinds of berrys that katness can pick and eat. the streamtaylor is singing by (katness spend a lot of time collecting and travelling through the arena in the stream to avoid leveing foot prints so she can't be tracked. plus she fishes from the stream too). the mayors pin in the cabin taylor picks up is the in the mayors daughter gives to katness. the deer turning to ash refrence to when the gamekeepers set katnesses area of the arena ablaze to burn her out of hideing cause all the contestants bunkered down and hid and made the games basicly suck to the audiance cause ntohing was going on no killing no nothing
melinda Awesome. Thank you!
February 14, 2012 at 10:27PM ESTMonty Jack
February 14, 2012 at 12:32PM EST Reply to CommentGreat, a soundtrack crammed with whiny emo rock to appeal to a teen girl fanbase.
sonamyfan23 hgfan2
February 18, 2012 at 9:34PM EST Reply to Commentman i love the books and this song seems like it's for rue and i love this song is dark just like the hunger games.
sonamyfan23 hgfan2
February 18, 2012 at 9:35PM EST Reply to Commentoh yeah ps nice thouch of useing a moking jay pin perfect.