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Florence + the Machine singer Florence Welch has revealed
that she was inspired by the Evil Queenwhile writing her song 'Breath of Life'
for the Snow White and the Huntsman soundtrack. Digital Spy reports that the
singer viewed several scenes from the forthcoming fantasy film and found
herself drawn to Charlize Theron's Queen Ravenna when sitting down to come up
with the track. "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," Welch explained to MTV News.
"There are these amazing scenes where she's kind of picking out birds'
hearts and eating them. [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." Florence went on to say that the experience
of actually recording the song in the studio was an especially memorable one.
"We went in and demoed the track, these big, clattering drums, huge bass
sounds and everything was very intense... and then we sent that to the guys in
LA who composed it. And it was amazing to see the music we played being turned
into this amazing orchestral thing," she recalled. "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... 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."
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