Hana played her song “Need” for Good Day in Dallas. Check out the video embedded above. If you love this song, sign up for Hana’s official street team to help spread the word about it. You can win some awesome prizes in the process!
Archive for July, 2009
Hana Plays Good Day
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Examiner.com Interview
Friday, July 17th, 2009Her fans are truly devoted and are excited about this song. And this is where she begins our conversation…
HP: Yeah, they’re amazing. They are just incredible. They are so adamant about this song. They are so supportive. Pretty much, starting this campaign was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done. I thought it fit with the theme of the movie, but these people are so into it, it’s amazing. I’ve gained a lot of fans through it, so it’s really been a cool thing.
E: You’ve got nearly two million hits on MySpace for that song alone. Most bands only wish they received half that amount of hits on a song on MySpace.
Yeah, it’s crazy. I’d sign in when it began to shoot up; I’d get a little log every day of how many times it had been played. And seeing it do that right before my eyes, I was like, “what…the…hell??? 30,000 plays today?” It was incredible.
Looking back, how did this all come about? Were you a fan of the books; were you a fan of the first film?
Well, it was one of the first songs I’d ever written. I wrote it five years ago, and then last year, my sister fell into Twilight. She kept telling me over and over, “you have to read these books!” And later that year, I was home for Thanksgiving, and I read all four of them that weekend, and I became a little bit obsessed. We went on a hike, my sister and I, and we were talking about how cool it would have been to be on the soundtrack for the first movie, and it pretty much hit us at the same time that “Need” is perfect for what happens in New Moon.
So, I went home, launched the campaign, and put the song up on MySpace, and everything started happening really fast. We just started adding Twilight fans and Twilight web pages, and people really attached to it pretty quick. All of the sudden we were getting 400 requests a day. It was cool; people really liked the song. I was getting emails over a paragraph long about [situations in the books the song reminded them of]. So, yeah, I started it because I thought the song fit really well, and it just blew up because, well, I guess it really does fit.
So, just to clarify, the song wasn’t influenced or inspired by the movie at all?
No, not at all. It was a song about an impossible love. I was in love with a boy of whom my parents didn’t approve. I wrote it when I was 14 in that kind of desperate, teenage angst state. I think that’s what a lot of Twilight is about – a lot of impossible love, “what am I going to do” kinda stuff. And I think that’s where people are making the connection with the song.
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