Twenty One Pilots carried out ‘The Line’, their music taken from the season 2 soundtrack of ‘Arcane: League Of Legends’, reside on the 2024 Recreation 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 ‘Bear 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 search out out about how ‘The Line’, got here collectively.
“Initially, I’m only a fan” she mentioned. “What occurs with Arcane is that we will get despatched some animatics or tough storyboards and there shall be a temp observe connected to it. I gained’t say what the temp observe was, but it surely was a music that instantly made me assume that Tyler Joseph has to write down this. The second was designed for this band. We’ve got nice relationships with managers and labels, and we knew that Tyler was a fan of the present and that they wished to do one thing with us. We went to their supervisor, Chris Woltman, and I simply mentioned, ‘Look, we’ve got the right scene for him. Would he contemplate doing it?’ He by no means actually writes for anything, however he loves the present so that they wished to see it and we despatched it over. Actually three days after he bought the scene, we bought the music again. In loads of the instances, with ‘Arcane’, we’ve got 4 or 5 artists attempt one thing and check out a totally totally different vitality. However when that one got here in it was like, ‘Okay, effectively, that’s it’.”
“We had been capable of work actually carefully with them to create this second. The visuals took form over the subsequent a number of months. I believe it’s one of the best factor when the artist loves the IP. He’ll inform his personal story about it, however he has his personal funding in what the music 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 one in all 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 realize nothing about it, it’s nonetheless an amazing pop music 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 do this effectively, and Tyler’s positively one in all them.”
Learn our full interview with Maria plus Royal & The Serpent, Mako, ZAND and extra inside our new ‘Arcane’ particular version journal. That includes beautiful paintings from the sequence, it explores the music behind the present and the function it performs within the storytelling.
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