The National Contenders For Final Nominees Of Academy Award
Friday, 20 January 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Indie rockers The National have been included in the list of potential final nominees for Best Original Song at the Oscars – and joked that they’d ‘probably end up losing to a Muppets song’.
The band have managed to get themselves in the run-in for an academy award after their song ‘Think You Can Wait’ featured on the soundtrack to American sports-comedy ‘Win Win’, and frontman Matt Berninger has confessed that it would be a ‘blast’ if they could get into the final nominations – but jokingly said that they’d probably lose out to a track from The Muppets.
“I think we’ll probably lose to a Muppets song, but you know, there’s no shame in that,” Berninger told the Rolling Stone. “It was really fun to see our names associated with the Academy Awards in any capacity. If we are in fact nominated that would be a blast, but none of us are crossing our fingers on that. Win Win was just a really fun project to work on. Tom McCarthy asked us to write a song for the end of the film. The whole thing was just a really good experience. So yeah, if it gets any more recognition, that would be just icing.”
He continued on to talk about the band writing new material, for a follow up to 2010’s ‘High Violet’. “We are slowly starting to work on a new record. The two songs that we played live on the radio and at some of our last shows last year are contenders, I guess. We’re just kind of building a bunch of little sketches of ideas, just kind of stocking them up. It’s a long, slow process, and that process has begun. But as far as any sort of idea as to when that process will end, we have no idea. Not for quite some time.”
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