Talk:Arcade Fire
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Her and Reflektor
I read the Reflektor section twice, but couldn't understand what the connection to the Her soundtrack was. As written, the sentence Will Butler and Owen Pallett received a nomination for Best Original Score at the 86th Academy Awards for their original score of Spike Jonze's 2013 science-fiction romance film Her.
feels completely out of context. There is no previous mention of Her and no explanation why or how it is connected to the album.
I had to ask Google, whose AI gave me the following answer:
- Arcade Fire's "Reflektor" album and the 2013 film "Her" are connected in that Arcade Fire's score for "Her" influenced the band's album "Reflektor" and vice versa. The band worked on both projects concurrently, and there's evidence of mutual influence in the music. Specifically, the song "Supersymmetry" from "Reflektor" was originally written for "Her," and a different version of the song appears in the film's closing credits
If this is true, the article completely fails to explain this - any of it - to the reader.
Please fix this. Please also clarify that the lead's mention of the Oscar nom will be discussed in the Reflektor section. Currently that part of the lead reads:
In 2013, Arcade Fire released their fourth album, Reflektor, and scored the feature film Her, for which Pallett and then-member Will Butler were nominated in the Best Original Score category at the 86th Academy Awards.
This is reported as two entirely separate events, and there is no clue that the Oscar Nom will be discussed in the Reflektor section of the article.
Of course there is an argument to be made that the timing - that both album and Oscar nom took place in the year 2013 - means the two events will be discussed together, but that still completely fails to hint to any interconnection.
In short: it is probably utterly obvious to you superfans, but to a non-informed reader new to this article, it is much less so. 84.217.39.2 (talk) 22:31, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think the lead needs to be clarified - it says that Her was released in 2013, and in the body it's covered in the section that's titled with 2013-2015.
- The body is split into "eras", but not everything under each period will be directly related to the album (see also, Hunger Games Soundtrack falling under the Suburbs years) - this is a fairly common way of splitting up periods of bands' histories, not unique to this article.
- I agree that the Her could be expanded upon further in the main body to provide more background/context. Nil 🇳🇿 (talk) 23:11, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
Article review
It has been a while since this article was reviewed, so I took a look and noticed that A Cool Username Not In Use added a "more sources needed" orange banner. Should this article go to WP:GAR? Z1720 (talk) 18:07, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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Arcade Fire
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Lots of uncited statements and "citation needed" templates, as well as an orange "more sources needed" banner at the top of the page. Z1720 (talk) 19:20, 20 March 2026 (UTC)