Spike Jonze Says Arcade Fire's "Supersymmetry" Was Originally Made for His Film Her

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Arcade Fire's score for Her, Spike Jonze's new movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson, has a connection to Arcade Fire's new album Reflektor. IndieWire reports that "Supersymmetry" was originally written specifically for Her, not for Reflektor. A different version of the song appears in the film's closing credits.

In an interview with Hitfix, Jonze explained: ""The [band] was working on [Reflektor] as they were working on this. Win and I started talking about the score about two years ago, and then it kinda seemed like the record sort of informed the soundtrack and the soundtrack informed the record a little bit, and there's like a song on [Reflektor]—the last one, 'Supersymmetry'—that he wrote for the movie, but then it sort of became something else. It's actually the last song in the end credits."

Jonze discussed the strategy of the collaboration: "What Win and I started talking about in the beginning was just that we wanted the soundtrack to have this electricity to it, a current to it, but not to be electronic and not to...use synthesizers at all. For it not to feel synthetic, but to feel like hand-made, but still have an electricity to it, and also just to sort of play this sort of romance and love story and longing of [Phoenix's character] Theodore."

Her receives a limited release on December 18 in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto and receives a wide release on January 10. Listen to "The Moon Song" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O, also from the Her soundtrack:

Karen O: "The Moon Song" on SoundCloud.

Watch a trailer for the film:

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