![]() During the festival's original run between 19, the duo acquired a reputation for being the most convivial of the Lilith brood by encouraging jam sessions, group-singalongs and backstage card games among artists as spiritually distinct as Sheryl Crow and Sinéad O'Connor. Tldr: HER is about Spike Jonze’s relationship with Karen O, after his divorce from Sofia Coppola.Most commonly known for their modest chart hits peppered throughout the 1990s, like "Closer to Fine," "Galileo" and "Shame on You," the Indigo Girls were a cardinal constellation in the Lilith Fair cosmology. A movie about how a relationship could evolve beyond a romantic relationship, but still have love and collaboration Which is pretty incredible and resulted in both “The Moon Song” and the awesomeness that is HER. Ten years after they dated (as they began dating in 2003 and HER came out in 2013), their friendship and collaboration continues. The note reads, in part, “The song was 10 years in the making according to Spike and a testament to a beautiful friendship and creative chemistry we’ve shared over the years.”Īnd of course, in the movie, “The Moon Song” is written by Samantha. Check out the video for “The Moon Song,” which has a note from Karen O: It’s the fact that Karen O and Spike wrote “The Moon Song” together. “You wanted to have a wife without the challenges of dealing with anything real.” To hear that your ex-husband is dating someone only a few years out of college would seem pretty immature of him.Ĭertainly, it would seem like he was dating someone easier to control or less mature, which is what Catherine’s responses are about. Sofia was two years younger than Spike, 32. Instead of Theodore telling Catherine he’s dating an operating system, imagine him telling her he’s dating someone nine years younger than him. Which sounds pretty much like what it would be like to be in a small indie rock band in New York City one day and the lead singer of a world famous band touring the entire world the next day.Īs well, there’s the scene where Theodore meets up with Catherine, his ex-wife: Samantha and Alan try to explain to Theodore what it’s like to be changing so fast that you don’t even understand it yourself. Late in the movie, near the end of their relationship, Samantha introduces Theodore to an interesting AI, Alan Watts, that she’s met. Spike is a world famous music video and film director who would know all the most interesting people and places.īut as Karen travelled on tour, she’d meet her own network of cool and interesting people. This all would sync up pretty closely with the evolution of the relationship in HER where, at first, Theodore is the one showing and explaining the world to Samantha. To the point where she and Spike’s relationship met a breaking point, although they clearly still have a strong relationship creatively. Since Karen is constantly touring and doing promotion, most of their relationship occurs over the phone.Īnd as Karen, who was in her mid-20s, met tons of interesting people and grew, she naturally changed over time. It’s about Spike Jonze, freshly divorced, dating a much younger woman, Karen O, as she becomes a world famous rock star. But I don’t think HER is about dating a “Siri” type AI. Most of the pieces I’ve read about HER are about how a relationship with technology would work and how AI would evolve past us and so on. Karen and Spike broke up in 2005, but stayed creative collaborators, with Karen doing the songs for Spike’s film of WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and co-writing with Spike “The Moon Song” for HER, which got them both Oscar nominations. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their debut album “Fever To Tell” in 2003 and became well-known very quickly. ![]() At the time, Spike was 34 and Karen was 25. They met in 1992 and were married from 1999 to 2003.Īfter they divorced in 2003, Spike began dating Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Spike Jonze was married to fellow director Sofia Coppola. To explain this, I have to go over Spike Jonze’s personal relationships before he made HER. I’ve had this theory about the fantastic Spike Jonze movie HER for a while, but haven’t ever seen it discussed.
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