“I don’t know why she picked who she picked [to join in the recording of the soundtrack],” Spike Jonze, director of “Where The Wild Things,” says of Karen O’s musical collaborative choices for the film in this behind-the-scenes clip. “But it was a definitely a specific casting select.”
In case your memory is short, O’s musical collaborators on the soundtrack (who she dubbed collectively as Karen O & The Kids) which she wrote and orchestrated (though there is a separate score for the film as well done by Carter Burwell) is an eclectic mass of indie rockers — members of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, Jonze’s brother, producer Squeak-E Clean, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Folk Implosion collaborator Imaad Wasif and Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dead Weather, Dean Fertita (member of Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Liars’ guitarist Aaron Hemphill, the Bird and the Bee’s Greg Kurstin, Services’ Tristan Bechet, and Gris Gris’s Oscar Michel, plus a an untrained children’s choir.
“I wanted to round up a bunch of musicians that I felt had really good musical intuition and really felt the music,” she says. The Wild Things soundtrack is out now, you can hear it all right here. The movie comes out October 16.