Let’s take a blast into the past shall we? When I first started Mockingjay.net back in 2009, there wasn’t much news. So, I entertained myself by rewriting the lyrics of songs so they fit The Hunger Games series, then performing them and creating a video using Garageband and iMovie and putting them on the site’s YouTube channel. This was one of my first forays into it, and to this day, it’s my favorite one. POOR PEETA. It’s been so long, but seeing that I’m bringing back “Music Mondays” in this interim between Catching Fire and Mockingjay – why not be nostalgic?
Let’s Not Play Pretend is a cover of Pretend by LIGHTS, and is from the perspective of Peeta Mellark in the first novel of The Hunger Games trilogy. He wants his love story with Katniss to be real, and it’s torture for him to have to “play pretend” for the cameras. Listen to it below, and I hope you enjoy it:
Click here to listen to the original song by Lights!