分かったから早く聴かせてくれネタですが、 LA Timesのブログに “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”の話題があり。
Beckのことが結構書いてあったよ。原作者のO’Malleyの発言を抜粋。(つっこみ歓迎)
“We(原作者のBryan Lee O’Malleyと監督のEdgar Wright) wanted them to sound like a garage band,” O’Malley said. “We wanted them to sound rough and really distorted. There’s this band called Times New Viking who had just released an album, and I was like, ‘These guys are perfect.'”
“Edgar wasn’t completely taken with them,” O’Malley continued. “So we start down with Beck, and the first thing he said was, ‘I think they should sound like Times New Viking.’ So Beck totally understood what we were going for. Edgar and I just kind of looked at each other.”
(おもいっきり)意訳すると、
「俺たちゃ(O’Malleyと監督のEdgar)Times New Vikingみたいな感じがいいと思ってた。で、Beckと仕事をスタートした時、Beckがまず最初に「Times New Vikingみたいな感じがかもね」って言ったんだ。Beckはよく分かってたんだ、俺たちゃ顔を見合わせたぜ。へへ」
Times New Viking “Born Again Revisited”
“Beck writes a dozen songs in one day,” O’Malley said. “So that’s what [Beck and Godrich] did. They wrote about 21 songs, and we picked the ones we liked. That whole thing was done in one day.”
In the film, the songs are performed in part by the cast, with Weber on lead vocals and Cera singing back-up. It hasn’t been announced whether the Beck-sung versions would be released, but Cera and O’Malley each hinted that it was a more-than-likely possibility.
…日本では「あのBeckメンバーにあえる!」という謎なCMがあったり(しかも武道館とZepp Osakaでだぜふざけんな)、渋谷HMV×BECKコラボイベントが決定したりと、Beckファンにとっては理解しがたいキャンペーンの情報がとびかってます。
B E C K という聖なる文字列を乱用され、困惑しております。(控えめに言って)
とりあえず渋谷駅前のどでかい看板をはずせ! 渋谷はBeck Hansenの街だぞ!