the hunger games are iconic & changed pop music | a video essay 

What was your favorite Hunger Games soundtrack cut?!

safe and sound is in my opinion, the best song from the soundtracks. it captures katniss' relationship with prim and rue so well. and can't catch me now is so lucy, olivia rodrigo killed it.

Lorde really was the architect of an ERA. She deserves way more credit like woah

I manifested folklore by making safe and sound my personality when I was 12

I can see Ethel Cain being in a hunger games soundtrack because her sound fits in the hunger games universe.

My soundtrack rank : 1. Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars 2. Can’t Catch Me Now - Olivia Rodrigo 3. Atlas - Coldplay 4. Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde Honorable mentions (these are non lead soundtrack but amazing songs too that fits the movie so well): 1. The Hanging Tree - James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence 2. Nothing You Can Take From Me - Rachel Zegler, The Covey Band 3. Kingdom Come - The Civil Wars 4. Pure As The Driven Snow - Rachel Zegler 5. Silhouettes - Of Monsters and Men 6. Elastic Heart - Sia feat. The Weeknd 7. Everybody Wants to Rule The World - Lorde

Not knowing if lucy gray lived or not literally kills me like PLEASE SUZANNE (Also lorde shouldve been on the soundtrack but shes hibernating so...)

Olivia Rodrigo is really following Taylor Swift's steps Good for her

This video is so real. No film soundtrack will ever come close to these. So many amazing songs on all 3 albums. Abraham’s Daughter, Safe & Sound, Come Away To The Water, Dark Days, Rules, Kingdom Come, Atlas, Mirror, Silhouettes, Who We Are, Kingdom, Scream My Name, Yellow Flicker Beat ALL SO GOOD!

I LOVE TS’s songs for the soundtracks. Eyes Open and Safe and Sound in my eyes, tell very similar stories from different povs. Eyes Open is abt how everyone wanted to see her fail, and how she wanted to prove them all wrong, but ended up leading into Safe and Sound, as she wanted to prove to herself, that she could protect Rue, but failed, and again, wanted to prove to herself that she could protect Rue, and she couldn’t. Which leads back into Eyes Open and wanting to prove everyone wrong, and she couldn’t, so now she has to prove it to herself, instead of the people, on Eyes Open.

u need to do this about Twilight like those soundtracks were so fucking good 😭😭 the muse song and the breaking dawn soundtrack was so good 😭

The Hanging Tree is beautiful, the best song and then Safe and Sound.

My favorites are Safe & Sound, Who We Are and Everybody Wants To Rule The World (just captured the tone so well), Dead Air and Scream My Name (I think it’s definitely underrated by the fans)

thank you for mentioning Charli's contribution to MJ pt.1's soundtrack because I suddenly remembered again how she just watched HG in 2020 then a fan commenting how she literally got a song on the soundtrack

Growing up in the early 2010s I never really understood the hype for movies, like my 10 year ood brain was WAY TOO YOUNG TOO SEE these types of movies. Now I’ve grown up I formed an attactment to the story even though I haven’t read the books and I only watched Mocking Jay part 1 in like 2014 but the MUSIC really did it for me. OKAY BUT I just wanna laugh how Charli just watsed a at a Miley Cyrus concert then wrote that Masterpiece ugh QUEEN!

Eyes Open is still my number 1 of all of Taylor’s discography (also cuz I’m a huge THG fan lol) but it’s incredible what this series has brought us and the amazing and talented songwriters it attracted. THG is tied with Twilight for best soundtrack tho cuz it’s iconic with songs like Roslyn by Bon Iver and Heavy in you arms by Florence+the machine. Thank you for this great video!

So when are we gonna admit lorde did it the best

the mockingjay pt 1 soundtrack curated by lorde to this day is my all time favorite movie soundtrack. sooooo many underrated songs on that album. Yellow Flicker Beat, All My Love, and the charli and tove lo songs are incredible. Lorde's cover of Ladder Song is what got me into Bright Eyes. All the Lorde songs of course are great. This album definitely deserves more praise. I know Kanye is a bad person, but hes still my favorite artist musically and you can definitely hear his influence as he is Lordes favorite artist as well. Alot of these tracks are giving Yeezus industrial sound.

I love Abraham's daughter so much. The ambiguity of what is happening, the music and the lyrics are so good.

Okay but full tea I would love a mini series that follows the life of Tigris that encapsulates her childhood being the older cousin of Snow. It’s implied that she had to sell her body in order to financially sustain her and her family that leads to her finding out about the second rebellion and siding with the rebels. I’d love it to be filmed to a similar style of The Crown where you slowly see her develop the feline features.

TBOSAS soundtrack really is taking it for 2 runner up! Rachel Zegler is doing her thing there and The Garden is beautiful.

Kind of sad you didn’t talk about silhouettes by of monsters and men for catching fire. I thought it did a really good job of portraying Snow and Katniss’ relationship leading into the next film.

Why the hell did I just found out safe and sound was a hunger games sound track 😂

Safe and Sound but I really liked "Can't Catch Me now" from "A ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" uh I also loved hanging Tree.

Very interesting video essay! I haven't listened fully to Pure Heroine, but my brain usually connects Yellow Flicker Beat to Team. In that sense, I think that Team would've fit nicely into the series too.

Omg I have been looking for a vid that covers the hunger games' soundtracks, thanks for doing this!

There is anew one coming out about Haymitch Abernathy in his games called sunrise on the reaping

Great video! I adore the Hunger Games. The soundtracks are superb! Suzanne Collins was inspired by Survivor as well, and I’m a super fan of the show. Also, check out the T-bone Burnett produced record “wrecking ball” by Emmy Lou Harris. It totally fits the vibe.

Omg so glad someone made this video bc this all needed to be said on how the soundtracks are phenomenal! Great video. Safe and Sound definitely added to my love of the series when the first film came out, and I then became a huuuge fan. One song you didn't touch on is Just A Game by Birdy from first soundtrack, I love how it captures Peeta and Katniss' pretending to be in love in the Games to survive and the conflict Katniss has if she should consider Peeta romantically, but not being able to afford thinking about that since survival is the priority.

Also what other movie series do you want me to cover?!

Kingdom is my favorite song on any of the soundtracks but it’s also one of my favorite Charli songs. I wish she would make more music like that but I don’t think that’s the direction she wants to go in 🤧

My favorite song of all time is Scream my name by Tove Lo.that she wrote for the mockingjay part 1 ,.she is one of my favorite music writers

The twilight soundtrack walked so the hunger games soundtrack could run

To Ve Lo? Hahah iconic meme

Hey hey- just saying hi and great video. These soundtracks really did the thing. RU-vidr Naomi Cannibal predicted/ hoped good soundtracks would come back with a vengeance and when I watched her say that I was just saying how I miss the how they R&B renaissance and the Disney renaissance of the 90s overlapped in such a beautiful way that I wish would happen in its own way now. Anywho, Safe &Sound has a special place for me but as a fellow songwriter can’t catch me now has really drawn me in as of late, also the one she sings about her boyfriend. I’d be cool if you did several YA movie soundtracks because a lot of the time they surpassed the movie in quality in cases that weren’t the Hunger Games. I know it ain’t YA but 50 shades def had that conundrum but a few futuristic/space love triangle YAS had that issue too. Also Barbie for obvious reasons. Maybe even Frozen b/c I stand in my dislike of their quality but will not deny the infectiousness of the soundtrack. Def the first Miles Morales Spiderman or any of the Tobey Spiderman soundtracks because PERFECT MARRIAGES! The Gatsby soundtrack who’s anachronistic songs I didn’t enjoy while watching but definitely on their own. I think that’s already a lot… if I think of anymore I’ll be back. Off to finally watch your Troye Sivan vid 😁✌🏾

That Taylor Swift picture in thumbnail 😭😭

guts reheated leftover ijbol

So like... when is the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy video happening?

Jennifer Lawrence should sing more

Can u please make a video talking about Melanie Martinez portals!!!

The only movie of this genre I ever liked was catching fire

I'm so disappointed the Ballad of blah blah and blah didn't have a killer soundrack with killer music. Can't catch me now by olivia is meh