Marcel Winatschek

Let’s Get Lost

Natasha Khan’s voice on Let’s Get Lost sounds like it’s coming from underwater—intimate and muffled, like you’re hearing it through heavy glass. She did this with Beck for the Twilight: Eclipse soundtrack, which shouldn’t work, which sounds ridiculous until you actually listen.

The Twilight movies are indefensible. Everyone knows this. But whoever programmed the soundtrack understood something: hire actually talented people and you can at least save that part. Lykke Li did a song, Muse did one, Khan and Beck made this one. The film is garbage. The soundtrack exists in a different world.

I’ve never understood why artists agree to this kind of work. The money, presumably. Or maybe the constraint is oddly pure—you have no prestige to lean on, no project credibility to coast on. You have to be good. You have to actually care about the work itself. The song is good because of that clarity. Twilight didn’t earn it, but it doesn’t matter.