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Twilight of course is based on a best selling novel, is going to take bazillions of dollars, the trailer was watched 3.1 million times on MySpace in the space of 5 days (MySpace being Zion for vampire loving teenage girls), and according to Kristen Stewart, who plays the lead, “people dream about this book”. These people do not soundtrack their dreams with Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and Cat Stevens (more’s the pity), so you can’t really argue with Muse and Paramore being on the Twilight soundtrack. It’s a no-brainer. Personally I’d pay to see the vampire film soundtracked by Cat Stevens, but I’m a guy in my mid-to-late twenties and I have no desire to be felt up by a teenage vampire, pretty boy or otherwise.

The Twilight soundtrack is an emo album. Emo riffs, a thematic landscape evoking tragic love, loss, angst – a kind of melancholic passionate adolescent love and lust. Linkin Park are on there. So if you’re wearing bright summer colours and sipping on an ice tea, this isn’t the album for you. It’s about getting out the bad stuff. A couple of tracks, it must be said, surpass the general tone – Iron & Wine are an interesting jangly modern folk outfit and their inclusion is, I think, a welcome note of variance from the emo riffs. Still, My Parents Don’t Understand Me And Vampires Are Good At Kissing should be the album title.