Andrew McMahon Talks Twilight & Working With Stephenie
May 6th, 2009 | By Krystal | Category: Featured Articles, Movie News
Blast has a new interview with Andrew McMahon, lead singer of Jack’s Mannequinn, who discusses what it was like to work with Stephenie Meyer!
BLAST: Tell me a little bit about working with Stephenie Meyer on the making of the “The Resolution” music video.
“AM: It was one of these things where I had a friend of mine who had notified me, this is probably months before I got involved with Stephenie, that Stephenie was a fan of Jack’s Mannequin and that she had made reference to Jack’s either on her website or in the thank you’s in one of her books as being an inspiration for a character or whatever, we were on a play list or something like that. I heard this and at that point didn’t really know much about “Twilight” and while it was obviously a huge phenomenon throughout the country and probably the world and what-not, I don’t think it had quite broken the surface yet. As the months wore on, obviously I was sort of realizing how big a deal this whole thing was and about the same time we were searching for video treatments for “The Resolution” and frankly hadn’t really found one that we clicked with. It was sort of a frustrating process and I was trying to kind of sort it out and we started talking; myself and the label, we started talking about, “Is there anything we could do that would be different and cool and clever that might invigorate this process, and maybe it isn’t just going to video treatments, maybe we reach out to the musicians from another band we like or we reach out to film directors or actors or other people we know?,” that sort of thing. In that conversation, I was like, “Well you know, this woman who writes these books that have sold millions of copies is a purported fan of Jack’s Mannequin. Maybe we could reach out to her. She’s an author, I’m sure she could come up with something cool.” And then of course, it was sort of a pipe dream, I guess, in a sense. I mean I wasn’t really thinking of it on the grander scale of how huge she really was. Sure enough, we reached out, and she was like, “Sure, that sounds great,” and she sent in three treatments and we loved one of them and she ended up coming out and co-directing the video for us.”
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Do it mean this song would be in New Moon Soundtrack???
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i think swim by jacks mannequin would be a better fit than the resolution
it fits perfectly with the cliff diving scene and is such a beautiful song
all the lyrics fit completely first verse is like edward urging her to fight and then later bella realising than even though she doesnt have anything to fight for she wont give up
i love it 😀
should totally be on the soundtrack
I like that song
damn! he looks like in pain or something i really didnt like it =S
hi lol!