Indie folk artist Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Billy, had some sharp words for director Wes Anderson in a recent interview with the Onion’s AV Club.
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When the conversation turned to the subject of the use of indie music in film, Oldham went off on Anderson, the auteur behind Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, and The Darjeeling Limited.
“His completely cancerous approach to using music is basically, ‘Here’s my iPod on shuffle, and here’s my movie.’ The two are just thrown together. People are constantly contacting me saying, “I’ve been editing my movie, and I’ve been using your song in the editing process. What would it take to license the song?” And for me it’s like, ‘Regardless of what you’ve been doing, my song doesn’t belong in your movie.’ That’s where the conversation should end. Music should be made for movies, you know?”
What do you think, readers? Does Oldham know what he’s talking about? Or is Anderson even the right man to single out, when Zach Braff (Garden State) and Jason Reitman (Juno) go scot free?
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