Twenty One Pilots carried out ‘The Line’, their tune taken from the season 2 soundtrack of ‘Arcane: League Of Legends’, dwell 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 monitor ‘Wasteland’ and d4vd who ran by way of their monitor ‘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 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 shall be a temp monitor hooked up to it. I received’t say what the temp monitor was, but it surely was a tune that instantly made me assume that Tyler Joseph has to put in writing 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 stated, ‘Look, now we have the proper scene for him. Would he take into account 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 tune again. In a whole lot of the circumstances, with ‘Arcane’, now we have 4 or 5 artists attempt one thing and check out a totally completely different power. However when that one got here in it was like, ‘Okay, nicely, that’s it’.”
“We have been in a position to work actually carefully with them to create this second. The visuals took form over the subsequent a number of months. I feel 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 tune 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 all the time been certainly one 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 a terrific pop tune that anyone can relate to, and I feel is among 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 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 beautiful art work from the sequence, it explores the music behind the present and the function it performs within the storytelling.
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