Watch: Florence and The Machine premiered Breath of Life clip from Snow White movie
Two weeks before the adventure movie "Snow White and the Huntsman" premieres in the cinemas worldwide June 1st, Florence and the Machine have debuted the clip in support of their single soundtrack "Breath of Life" which features several scenes from the movie itself. Images with Kristen Stewart as Snow White, Chris Hemsworth as the Huntsman and Charlize Theron as Queen Ravenna, are flashed in between footage of Florence Welch's studio session.
Featuring intense melodies with "big, clattering drums," the song was recorded at the famed Abbey Road with a big number of choir members. Instead of looking up to the protagonist Snow White, Florence took inspiration from the Evil Queen. <I>"It was amazing to see the music we played being turned into this amazing orchestral thing," the Florence and the Machine frontwoman gushed to MTV News during an interview on Monday 14. "You feel in a bit of a way like you're kind of making it up as you go along, and then when you see it done, laid out before you in such a beautiful, orchestral fashion, it's really incredible. And then we all went into Abbey Road and it was one of the best days of my life," she continued. "I love choirs and I love choral music, and there was a 60-piece choir singing the vocal parts that I had written. When the baritones came in, I nearly wept, it was so emotional."
"The Queen is just this incredible character; so hungry for life but so dead inside. She's sort of eternal, but inside there's nothing. She's kind of like charcoal or something," she also said.
The lead singer was particularly fond of a scene where the Queen was "kind of picking out birds' hearts and eating them." The lead singer gushed, "[She has] this thirst for youth and for life, but for what kind of life? This darkness, but she's so beautiful, so it's this kind of juxtaposition between beauty and, ultimately, death."
Video premiere: Florence and the Machine "Breath Of Life" – 'Snow White and The Huntsman' Soundtrack
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