: Well, when we saw the movie, the next day, we put in the work. Like, “Okay, we’ve got to find out who’s got the rights to this and figure out if we can get them and make it happen together.” The rightholders [to the movie and the book] were this very, very old studio in Sweden, so we called, and it just so happened that their representative happened to be in Los Angeles that day.
David Hodges and I wrote the song before the movie started because Marc wanted to have it and use it in playback, when Tom did the scen. And also as they started cutting, he wanted to see how it was going cut together. We had to have something in these very specific areas that Mark was looking for…and my co-writer David Hodges sings it in the body of the film.
So really, the conversations that David and I started having were about “Okay, this is a very specific thing, written for a movie going in this very specific place.” It had to be evocative but not right on the nose, and it had to sound like a song that was could have been played in era, in that year. Marc didn’t want something that was just a song that existed. He…didn’t want to…have other people have associations with a particular song.
I thought she was Avril Lavigne 😄😄😄