While the song’s menacing opening chords certainly evoke the right atmosphere of dread, any Twi-hards old enough to remember the song’s cheesy 1982 video would probably snicker at the three black vinyl-clad dancers spanking their own bottoms and the ballerina bride dancing amid the exploding appliances of a thoroughly modern kitchen. While it’s true that Meyer’s personal site has featured playlists for each book, her tastes–at least sometimes–skew a little more mainstream than the indie- and unsigned artist-heavy roster Patsavas selected for the four Twilight movies.įor instance, Meyer selected Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” to start book one of Breaking Dawn. This is especially challenging at a time when young people don’t just avoid buying music, they actively seek to get it free. When it comes to the Twilight saga soundtracks (which are released by Patsavas’ own label, Chop Shop, along with Atlantic Records), she’s also doing her part to prop up the record industry, one teenager’s allowance at a time. Aside from knowing just the right track to select for a given scene, Patsavas is the kind of free-ranging cultural curator a magazine like Vogue asks to select a Halloween playlist. She’s also become an important tastemaker as music critics, radio, MTV, and other traditional outlets for promoting music have declined in prominence. Patsavas, who got her start as a music supervisor for television on shows like Roswell, Grey’s Anatomy, The O.C., Chuck, and Mad Men, has become the go-to collaborator for showrunners and directors who want to reach beyond the predictable and make distinctive statements with their music choices. Much of the success of the soundtracks rests on the shoulders of Alex Patsavas, the series’ music supervisor and producer of all four Twilight soundtracks.
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