Jennifer Lawrence hates her singing voice, but it made her even more popular among her fans. Photo by http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lFXkPNhXv9k/0.jpg
The popular movie The Hunger Games, starring Jennifer Lawrence, released the movie soundtrack in December. Lawrence’s track debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, according to TIME.
Junior Olivia Sorresso said she enjoyed “the soul of the songs.”
Within the first week, the song sold over 200,000 copies. The song has also hit the charts in the United Kingdom and Australia. Senior Jennifer Kaziska said she enjoyed the song “The Hanging Tree” because “the song was sung so intensely and with passion.”
The song was written by Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins, The Lumineers’ Jeremiah Fraites and Wesley Schultz. It had originally showed up in Collins’ novel Mockingjay.
The song is about a secret meeting at a tree where a man was once hung and becomes a rallying cry for rebels against the oppressive Capitol, along with the three finger salute.
While on the Letterman Show in support of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay-Part 1, Lawrence told David Letterman that she dreaded having to sing “The Hanging Tree” for the scene, saying she would much rather have Lorde, who had already written a song for the Hunger Games album, sing the song and she could lip sync.
She told Letterman, “I do not like singing in front of other people. It’s, like, my biggest fear. I cried on set that day.” The filmmakers decided against her, so she was forced to sing the song. Just as she said to Letterman, she recorded her song, but she cried because she hated the sound of her voice. She refuses to watch that part of the movie or listen to the song on the radio.
A remix came out shortly after the song was released by the artist Nezzo. While the original song is somber and melancholy, his version is energetic, taking influence from electro and French house.
Sorresso said that she does not like the remix because “it takes away the meaning and beauty of the song.”