The Dead Weather explains their involvement with 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' soundtrack

'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' OST - Summit Ent./Atlantic Records

For a while before the list of bands included on The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's official motion picture soundtrack were named, a lot of fans knew that The Dead Weather would at least be approached for inclusion - if for no other reason than that director David Slade had so openly praised the band on his Twitter account during filming.
So, when the news came down that The Dead Weather's "Rolling in on a Burning Tire" would become a part of the album, some weren't very surprised (though quite excited).
Still, the band has done few if any interviews about their involvement with the album, until now.
Chicagoist did an interview with the band recently where they revealed the way that they became a part of the album.
Alison Mosshart (lead singer) explained, "We were in the studio in Nashville at the time, recording Sea of Cowards. Rolling in on a Burning Tire was going to be the last track on the album; then we got asked to submit something to Twilight. It seemed like the right kind of track for it. We submitted it and they said they wanted it exclusively, so we recorded another track to take its place on the album."
The song ended up being a backing to a "Victoria and Riley" moment, and it did seem quite appropriate for that moment in the film.
After having seen the movie, though, she found that the song ended up being "chopped" and that "[i]t sounded like they used every bit of the song but spun it down into 10-seconds."
Still, Mosshart agrees that having the song on the Eclipse album does open up the opportunity to garner new fans. "I'm ok with tweens hearing our music. However they get to hear it," she explained