Without spoiling anything super significant, in Diablo Cody’s new script, “Jennifer’s Body,” a wickedly delectable black horror teen comedy, there’s a song and a band in the film that’s intergral to the film in a comedic motif manner.
The band, named Soft Shoulder, are a emo-goth-looking band with a hit song called, “Through The Trees,” that annoys the protagonist (Amanda Seyfried) to no end.
Despite the band’s look, which is all Hot Topic, in the script the song is described as a “cheesy rock anthem.” Adam Brody has already been cast as the lead singer of the band, but clearly some group or artist has to actually write the song.
We’ve never heard it obviously, but considering the lyrics and how many times it shows up in the movie (we swear, ad nauseum to hilarious effect), it kinda reminds us if My Chemical Romance and Nickelback were fused together to write an anthemic song of corny love and healing. The lyrics:
Through the trees, I will find you,
Heal the ruins left inside you,
And the stars will remind you,
We’ll meet again…
Now our question is: has Cody and or the film’s director or producer cast a band to actually write the music and melody around these lyrics? For some reason we keep gravitating back to Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me,” as if it were written by cutters with jeans two-sizes too small and douche-y goth/emo hairdos. We’ll have to wait until 2009, unless the news breaks sooner, but we kinda can’t wait.