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Taylor Swift on songwriting process for 'The Hunger Games'

Although country-pop songstress Taylor Swift didn't win the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, she explained that the songwriting process was "interesting".

Swift was nominated in the category for her collaboration on 'Safe & Sound' with The Civil Wars for 'The Hunger Games', but lost out to Adele with 'Skyfall' and told Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet that it was a challenge to write for a movie soundtrack:

"It was interesting, because Lionsgate came to us and said, ‘We want you to write from Katniss’ point of view, we want you to completely understand her and come from where she’s coming from.’"

"My cowriters, The Civil Wars and T Bone Burnett, were amazing. We had this idea that we wanted the song to be about the empathy that goes into this film and the undertones of sympathy and human compassion that go along with such an incredible film with all this action and fighting in it. We wanted to highlight the fact that there’s a lot of heart beneath that." Watch Swift talk about the nominated song here:

 

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