Lorde has released the companion video to her single for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” soundtrack.
The 17-year-old singer used Katniss Everdeen as her main inspiration for “Yellow Flicker Beat”, and took the lead to help create the “Mockingjay Part 1” soundtrack.
Lorde took her Tumblr when she first released “Yellow Flicker Beat” to explain her creative process. The Grammy award-winning artist was thankful for the opportunity to collarborate with artists like Ariana Grande, Charli XCX and Kanye West to create the record.
“We are almost at the end, the point where this soundtrack gets taken away from me and becomes something real,” Lorde wrote. “I’m reminded of this day last year, when pure heroine came out in this country. The feeling of something very solitary that I had worked on spinning around and around further away from me, becoming someone else’s, everyone’s.
“The past year of my life has seen everything around me multiply in size and number - the stamps on my passport, the number of people I have to ask before I ride on the Ferris Wheel after my set at a festival, the decibels that follow me when I walk around in public. The other thing that’s grown is me - my fitness, my mental stamina, my ability to think clearly and make decisions - but most of all, my capacity for love.”
Watch Lorde’s music video for “Yellow Flicker Beat” below. The film starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Natalie Dormer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Elizabeth Banks and Woody Harrelson will be released to theaters on Nov. 21.
