If you want your movie’s soundtrack to sound good, maybe you should get a 17-year old to curate it. Lorde, the teenager from New Zealand who ruled the charts this year with her debut album Pure Heroine, celebrated its one year anniversary yesterday with a special treat for all of the Hunger Games fans out there. The pop star, who’s been recruited to curate The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 soundtrack, released the first single from the film and it’s one you’ll probably be playing on repeat very soon.
The track is called “Yellow Flicker Beat” and it employs the same pulsating beats and catchy hooks that made the singer’s previous chart-toppers like “Royals” and “Team” so popular. This isn’t the first time the Kiwi import has lent her voice to a Hunger Games film — she covered Tears For Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for the Catching Fire soundtrack — but this is her first pass at writing a song specifically for the series. The artist took to her Tumblr page to thank her fans and announce the release of her new song:
It’s my first offering from what I hope will be a soundtrack you love. It’s my attempt at getting inside her head, Katniss’. I hope you like it.
The soundtrack also marks the first time Lorde has ever tackled such a daunting project and she told Billboard earlier this year that being given free rein by the studio was a bit mind blowing at first:
It’s really been my baby, which is awesome. It’s so rewarding, but it blows my mind that this massive studio has just handed the reigns over to a 17-year-old. I’ve literally been doing it by myself, contacting every artist, sorting everything out… there are some people on there that you’re going to be super surprised by. You’ll be like, what? I haven’t heard form them in ages… but in a great way.
