Olivia Rodrigo is a songbird with something to say. The “GUTS” singer-songwriter has recorded the featured song in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Lionsgate and Rodrigo revealed Wednesday. “Soooo beyond excited that I got the opportunity to write a song for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” the pop superstar wrote on Instagram. A snippet of the track, titled “Can’t Catch Me Now,” can be heard in a 60-second sneak peek (below) before the full song releases November 3 on Spotify and Apple Music.
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The 17-song Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes album, also featuring the single “The Hanging Tree (Lucy Gray’s version)” performed by star Rachel Zegler, will be available to download or stream on Nov. 17.
“From the very beginning of this franchise, we have been fortunate toattract some of the world’s most talented recording artists whose musichas accentuated and complemented the drama of the films whileunderscoring the emotional weight carried by the characters,” directorFrancis Lawrence said in a statement. “With her highly charged lyricsand urgent voice, Olivia Rodrigo taps into all of that as much as anyartist today. She’s an absolute thrill to work with and we couldn’t bemore excited that her music is a part of the movie.”
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Soundtrack List
Olivia Rodrigo – Can’t Catch Me Now
Rachel Zegler – The Hanging Tree
Flatland Cavalry – Wool
Rachel Zegler – Nothing You Can Take From Me
Sierra Ferrell – The Garden
Rachel Zegler – The Ballad of Lucy Gray Baird
Molly Tuttle – Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Rachel Zegler / James Newton Howard – The Old Therebefore / Singing at Snakes
Bella White – Burn Me Once
The Covey Band – District 12 Stomp
Rachel Zegler, The Covey Band – Nothing You Can Take From Me (Boot-Stompin Version)
Billy Strings – Cabin Song
Rachel Zegler – Lucy Gray (part 1)
Rachel Zegler, The Covey Band – Pure As The Driven Snow
Charles Wesley Godwin – Winter’s Come & Gone
Josie Hope Hall, The Covey Band – Keep On The Sunny Side
Rachel Zegler – Lucy Gray (part 2)
In theaters Nov. 17, the Hunger Games prequel takes place more than 60 years beforeKatniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) became the victor of the 74thHunger Games in Lionsgate’s blockbuster young adult saga between 2012and 2015. Songbirds and Snakes follows Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), a tribute from Capitol 12 who is mentored by an 18-year-old Coriolanus “Coryo” Snow (Tom Blyth), the future President of Panem; the cast includes Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman (JasonSchwartzman), weathercaster-turned-first television host for the 10thHunger Games; Coriolanus’ cousin, Tigris Snow (Hunter Schafer); Coriolanus’ good friend,Sejanus Plinth (Josh Andrès Rivera), who coined the “Coryo” nickname;Dr. Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis), head Gamemaker of the 10th HungerGames; and Casca “Cas” Highbottom (Peter Dinklage), dean of the CapitolAcademy credited as the architect of the Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes opens only in theaters Nov. 17.
