Karen O has teamed up with Lara Croft by writing a song for the latest Tomb Raider game.
I Shall Rise will feature in Rise of the Tomb Raider, and according to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer it was a perfect collaboration. “You know how Gloria Gaynor has her I Will Survive? I always wanted to do my version of that and this was it,” the frontwoman told Rolling Stone.
She added: “I think they wanted to bring on the melodrama. They wanted something emotional with a dramatic build. It’s kind of the theme of Lara’s creation myth, the moment that defines her becoming an icon. It was really juicy stuff for me. I’m really into making melodramatic songs.”
O has previously won acclaim for her work outside of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and last year her track Moon Song, which featured in Spike Jonze’s Her, won an Oscar nomination for best original song. Before that she wrote the soundtrack for Where the Wild Things Are.
The singer also talked about Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who are currently on hiatus. Last month, O gave birth to her first child and says that her focus has been on that. She said: “I’m in this massive transition where I just brought a life into the world. It’s redefined my concept of myself. I kind of got reduced to rubble in the process of it. I feel like I can relate to a heroine who is up against all kinds of physical and emotional adversity. I have this new perspective on women and motherhood.” She said it was unlikely the band would reform in the near future, although didn’t rule the possibility out further along the line.
