Twenty One Pilots carried out ‘The Line’, their track taken from the season 2 soundtrack of ‘Arcane: League Of Legends’, stay on the 2024 Sport Awards final evening (December 12).
The efficiency was a part of a particular ‘Arcane’ medley on the present which additionally featured Royal & The Serpent with their observe ‘Wasteland’ and d4vd who ran by their observe ‘Keep in mind Me’. Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun then took to the stage for the debut efficiency of ‘The Line’, accompanied by an orchestra as footage from the present performed out on a video backdrop.
Watch video of the medley beneath:
We lately caught up with Riot Video games’ International Head Of Music & Occasions Maria Egan to seek out out about how ‘The Line’, got here collectively.
“Initially, I’m only a fan” she stated. “What occurs with Arcane is that we will get despatched some animatics or tough storyboards and there might be a temp observe hooked up to it. I received’t say what the temp observe was, however it was a track that instantly made me assume that Tyler Joseph has to write down this. The second was designed for this band. We have now nice relationships with managers and labels, and we knew that Tyler was a fan of the present and that they needed to do one thing with us. We went to their supervisor, Chris Woltman, and I simply stated, ‘Look, we have now the proper scene for him. Would he think about doing it?’ He by no means actually writes for anything, however he loves the present so that they needed to see it and we despatched it over. Actually three days after he received the scene, we received the track again. In numerous the circumstances, with ‘Arcane’, we have now 4 or 5 artists strive one thing and take a look at a totally totally different power. However when that one got here in it was like, ‘Okay, effectively, that’s it’.”
“We had been capable of work actually intently with them to create this second. The visuals took form over the subsequent a number of months. I believe it’s the most effective factor when the artist loves the IP. He’ll inform his personal story about it, however he has his personal funding in what the track means to him. However he actually loves the present so he was so into being a part of the world and attempting to inform the story. He’s an distinctive songwriter, and he’s at all times been certainly one of my favorite writers, lyrically. Once we’re attempting to do issues with the story, you need nice lyricists. You need nice storytellers that may take these narratives and inform the story. I imply, Dan Reynolds is nice at this too, the place ‘Enemy’ tells the story of ‘Arcane’ but when you recognize nothing about it, it’s nonetheless an amazing pop track that anyone can relate to, and I believe is without doubt one of the causes it was such an enormous hit. That’s a really masterful ability; to take particular tales and make them common. There’s a handful of writers at any given time on the planet that try this effectively, and Tyler’s positively certainly one of them.”
Learn our full interview with Maria plus Royal & The Serpent, Mako, ZAND and extra inside our new ‘Arcane’ particular version journal. That includes gorgeous paintings from the collection, it explores the music behind the present and the function it performs within the storytelling.
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