When the trailer for Spike Jonze’s “Where The Wild Things” broke yesterday we wrote, “You’ll note that this version of the Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” sounds a little different from the album version on 2004’s Funeral. Exclusively written for the trailer? [ed. we’re finding out; we think half so].
So we wrote Merge records to find out (literally 30 seconds after the trailer came out). They agreed with us and said it sounded like the first half was acoustic and different from the original, to which we replied, “yes, good, we’re not just crazy, we thought so too.” They went to check from management… but then instead of getting back to us, they got back to MTV News instead. Such is life.
Press for the Arcade Fire told MTV that the version of “Wake Up” featured in the trailer was “a new version, re-recorded specifically for the film.” See? We were right (although we still think it’s only the first half of the trailer where the song is different, but whatever). But we couldn’t confirm it first. Ah, well. As you were.
Though wait, “written in the film.” Will we hear the Arcade Fire outside of the trailer and within “Where The Wild Things Are” movie itself? That info is not clear yet. We’ll have to wait and see.