Brian Anthony chats to I Like Music
BRIAN: I had some success with the Come And Get It single, I was signed to four different labels in four different countries and the mother label was in the UK, out of London - they're called Zero Degrees Entertainment. And, because I charted in Spain and the song did well in Italy with the remixes, they considered me for Fantastic Four the movie, for the theatrical release. I knew a couple of people who were working on the film and the music editor asked for some music and I chose WhatsitgonnaB, because it's very current and very radio.
I was doing some new stuff I hadn't really done before where I rap in the middle of it, so I thought, this is kinda cool. So, I gave it to him and it had this futuristic type of quality to it, and they really liked it. So I saw the cut and it worked perfectly for this one scene. The Fantastic Four go to this club, and Mr Fantastic, the guy who stretches, is dancing and he's stretching around all these girls and stuff, The Human Torch and The Thing are dancing with these girls in this club, and the entire club is dancing to my song that I wrote and produced. And I thought 'wow, this is awesome.'
So it went back and forth, but, unfortunately, it was the same situation with Come And Get It. They had a couple of songs that they needed to consider as well. So, for Come And Get It it was the Black Eyed Peas 'Pump It', so I was competing with them for the same scene and, for Fantastic Four, it was Eve and Timbaland, she had a song called Tambourine, and then the new Pussycat Dolls song too, so they got the spot because of some political issues, but I felt that I was in really good company, with some of the top people on the radio right now. They still wanted to use the song, so they put it on the DVD, which was cool.
ILM: Also, it means you're getting known by the people who make these decisions. And like you say it's good company…
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