Twenty One Pilots carried out ‘The Line’, their track taken from the season 2 soundtrack of ‘Arcane: League Of Legends’, stay 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 way of 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 under:
We not too long ago caught up with Riot Video games’ World Head Of Music & Occasions Maria Egan to seek out out about how ‘The Line’, got here collectively.
“To begin with, I’m only a fan” she stated. “What occurs with Arcane is that we will get despatched some animatics or tough storyboards and there can be a temp observe connected to it. I gained’t say what the temp observe was, nevertheless 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 right scene for him. Would he contemplate doing it?’ He by no means actually writes for the rest, however he loves the present in order that they needed to see it and we despatched it over. Actually three days after he obtained the scene, we obtained the track again. In a number of the instances, with ‘Arcane’, we have now 4 or 5 artists attempt one thing and take a look at a totally completely different power. However when that one got here in it was like, ‘Okay, nicely, that’s it’.”
“We have been capable of work actually carefully with them to create this second. The visuals took form over the following a number of months. I feel it’s the very 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 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 one in every of my favorite writers, lyrically. After 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 nothing about it, it’s nonetheless an important pop track that anyone can relate to, and I feel is without doubt one of the causes it was such a giant 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 nicely, and Tyler’s positively one in every 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 beautiful art work from the sequence, it explores the music behind the present and the position it performs within the storytelling.
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