Wednesday, November 5, 2008

I Caught Myself - Twilight Soundtrack


As some of you may know, the Twilight Soundtrack was released yesterday, so I went ahead and bought the album off iTunes (you get 3 bonus tracks, how exciting!). It's pretty good and I really like a lot of the songs...but...it sets a tone that seems off from the kind of tone I got while reading the book. Now, I'm not one of those morons that think you can make a movie in the EXACT image of the book. If you are going to be one of those people, you are going to be disappointed a lot of time. Film isn't literature. And vice versa. You can write one page of a script that can cover 20 pages of a novel. It's not about what you have time to put into the movie or what important parts you end up excluding or lines that don't match perfectly, it's about how you create the movie to honor the book's central themes, characters and events. As long as we all go into the theater hoping for a great film that centers on some of our most favorite literary characters, we will most likely walk out with smiles on our faces and feeling perfectly content with life (that is, if Hardwick doesn't screw it up). That's all I'm asking for and that's all I'm going in hoping for.

Still...Stephenie Meyer created a playlist to follow every one of her Twilight novels. Those playlists gave us an even greater feeling for each book. Music is a HUGE part of the Twilight series, both inside the story of Bella and Edward and outside their universe (aka: our universe). Some of the songs on the album fit perfectly, ie: see Paramore songs. Others, however, give it a faster paced tone that I don't relate to the book. Bella's Lullaby in particular seems off to me. But then again, if Hardwick had created a movie that moved as slow as the first book, no one would go see it besides hardcore Twilight fans, and though we are legion...we are not enough to break the box office, I think. So, we'll just have to wait and see how the music fits with the film and if the faster pace movie can win our hearts akin to the slow paced romantic novel. Though the soundtrack threw me a little, I still have all confidence that the film will earn the position on the pedestal where I have put it.


Below is "I Caught Myself" by Paramore, their second song on the album. It's one of the great ones. I'm really starting to like this band. Let me know how you like it. Enjoy!





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I Caught Myself
By: Paramore

Down to you,
You're pushing and pulling me down to you.
But I don't know what I,
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself.
I'm saying something that I should have never thought.
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself.
From saying something that I should have never thought of you.

You're pushing and pulling me down to you,
But I don't know what I want,
No I don't know what I want.

You got it, you got it,
Some kind of magic.
Hypnotic, hypnotic,
You're leaving me breathless.
I hate this, I hate this,
You're not the one I believe in.
With God as my witness.

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself,
I'm saying something that I should have never thought.
Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself,
From saying something that I should have never thought of you.

You're pushing and pulling me down to you.
But I don't know what I want.
No I don't know what I want.

Don't know what I want.
But I know it's not you.
Keep pushing and pulling me down,
But I know in my heart it's not you.

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