Earlier this year, it was revealed that pop star Pink would have two songs associated with the upcoming film “Alice Through the Looking Glass.” The first tune, a cover of Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 hit “White Rabbit,” was teased in a featurette from Disney that debuted in February. Now, Pink’s original track for the flick, “Just Like Fire,” has been officially released.
The brand new single was co-written by Pink, Max Martin, Shellback and Oscar Holter and produced by the latter three. While the song is already available to buy online via digital retailers from RCA Records/Walt Disney Records, it will hit radio Monday. Expect its official music video, directed by Dave Meyers, to premiere in early May.
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“Just Like Fire” marks the first time Pink has written an original tune for a live-action feature film. Pink, 36, watched an early screening of “Alice Through the Looking Glass” with her 4-year-old daughter Willow to help inspire her to write the track. “I think of little girls like her when I’m doing something like this because I want it to be fun,” Pink said. “I think of that spirit Willow has, where she’s totally uninhibited and wants to dance around naked, and that’s how I go into the song.”
The tune will appear in the film and also be featured on its soundtrack, which contains a score from Danny Elfman.
This is the Grammy winner’s first single in three years - although she did record a new theme song last summer for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” called “Today’s the Day.”
“Alice Through the Looking Glass” is the follow-up to the 2010 blockbuster “Alice in Wonderland,” both live-action versions of the classic tales written by Lewis Carroll. Starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Sacha Baron Cohen as Time, the James Bobin-directed 3-D fantasy-adventure hits theaters May 27.
