Da sieh‘ mal an – The Nationals Matt Berninger und Indie-Singer/Songwriterin Phoebe Bridgers haben sich für ein Duett zusammengetan. Das Ergebnis, „Walking On A String“, ist Teil der neuen Netflix-Komödie „Zwischen zwei Farnen: Der Film“ und entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit Berningers Frau Carin Besser (sie schrieb ja bereits an vielen Songs des aktuellen The National-Albums „I Am Easy To Find“ mit), Mike Brewer (Brewer & Shipley) sowie The Walkmens Walter Martin und Matt Barrick an der Gitarre und den Drums.
Laut einer Pressemitteilung gab Regisseur Scott Aukerman Berninger freie Hand, um für seinen Film, der um Hauptakteur Zach Galifianakis herum der mittlerweile auch bereits eine Dekade zurückliegenden Kult-Internet-Sketch-Talk-Show „Between Two Ferns“ ein abendfüllendes Format spendiert, einen Song zu schreiben und aufzunehmen – egal mit wem, egal wie. Einzige Voraussetzung: der Song sollte in einer Barszene aufgeführt werden können.
Matt Berninger meint über „Walking On A String“ sowie dessen Entstehungsprozess in einem Interview mit dem US-„Rolling Stone“: “[Director] Scott Aukerman called and told me he and Zach had an important scene in a honky-tonk bar in middle America. They needed a band and a song and said I could do whatever I wanted. My wife Carin and I wrote the lyrics really quickly and I called Tony Berg to produce. I didn’t realize he was in the studio with Phoebe at the time but she graciously let me crash her sessions and that’s when we had the idea to turn it into a duet.”
“It’s a song about how our problems and anxieties can build up and feel like a tangled inescapable web. Sometimes all it takes is a friend with some perspective and patience to help us see our way out of our own messes. It’s also just a love song between a spider and a moth.”
Entstanden sind sowohl der Song als auch das dazugehörige Musikvideo (welches wiederum an die Doku-Ästhetik von „Between Two Ferns“ andockt und somit eine Art Making Of darstellt) innerhalb von zwei Tagen in den legendären Sound City-Studios in Los Angeles. Phoebe Bridgers dazu: “It’s also where Boygenius [ihr gemeinsames Band-Projekt mit den befreundeten Singer/Songwriterinnen Julien Baker und Lucy Dacus] recorded, so I’m very comfortable there, even with an entirely new band. The rest of the time Matt was trying to corral everyone to steal the couch on which Kurt Cobain wrote ‘Lithium.’”
Mit der Zusammenarbeit mit dem ähnlich umtriebigen The National-Frontmann ging für die 25-jährige Indierock-Senkrechtstarterin ein lange gehegter Wunsch in Erfüllung: “He’s been a hero of mine since I was a teenager, but it’s easy to forget when hanging out with him. He treats everyone around him as a peer. I wouldn’t have been so comfortable co-producing without him.”
Leider durfte Phoebe Bridgers das pfirsichfarbene Cowboyoutfit, das sie im Film trug, nicht behalten: “I fucking wish. I do, however, have the belt ‚cuz it’s mine – you can’t even see it in the movie. When I was ten years old, I won a mutton-busting competition at the rodeo and they gave me a buckle with a sheep on it. I finally had a reason to wear it.”
"The things you've said are hanging in the middle of my mind tonight I can't turn 'em off I try to worry for your soul but I forget to all the time I'm in a twisted web and I can't pull my head from it I think about you walking on a string It always brings me back here Into the garden by the hand You've always had me walking on a string I knew that I was dead before you touched my lonesome skin You're never running out of ways to worm your way back in I hang my head and feel the oxygen drain I think about you walking on a string And it always brings me back here Into the garden by the hand Anyone who knows what love is will understand You've always had me walking on a string In a web, I can't escape it You'll always worm your way back in To my lonesome soul and take it You've always had me walking on a string In a web, I can't escape it You'll always worm your way back in To my lonesome soul and take it You've always had me walking on a string"
Rock and Roll.
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