Muse is back on board the Twilight train! Even though the British rock band told us in April that they would not be contributing a track to the upcoming Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack, news of the album’s first single has been revealed — and it’s a new tune from the band called Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever). (Perhaps even Muse is unable to resist the hormonal pull of Edward Cullen’s topaz eyes . . .)
A post on Twilight author Stephenie Meyer’s official website confirmed the news that Meyer’s “very favourite band” will be featured as the first single for the soundtrack.
For the original Twilight soundtrack, Muse contributed the bombastic Supermassive Black Hole. For the indie-heavy New Moon compilation, they offered the whimsical glam-rocker, I Belong to You. But when we spoke with the band’s Dominic Howard earlier this year, he told us they had pulled their contribution from the Eclipse soundtrack.
“Nah, it’s gone,” Howard said, before adding, “Oh, it’s nothing to do with Stephenie, she’s totally cool. It’s the people in the movie business, completely outside of the writers and the creative types, the non-creative types, I suppose, are the people who are quite hard to deal with in Hollywood, so it didn’t work out.”
When asked about the then-untitled song, Howard told us, “It was a love song, so it’s a personal song, and it wasn’t really (anything) to do with the films. But it was sounding good . . . I mean, it was great. We worked on it in Australia, we were ready to record, we were going to do some recording with Butch Vig, so we might still do it. I’m sure the song will definitely come to life for real at some point, but I think for this film, it’s not going to happen.”
Luckily for Twi-hards (and music fans), the tune is once again destined to be scoring a gushy scene between Bella and her undead true love. Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) hits radio May 17, and the Eclipse soundtrack will be released June 8.
