With big musical appreciation and respect for these guys for a good while, today’s tune has got to go to The Script – Superheroes.
The Script – Mark, Danny and Glen
For some background music for as you read… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7ygEDRpSo&list=PL30DC226EE516ECB8
This ‘Man Who Can’t Be Moved’ band haven’t lost their Irish charm and in a recent interview it was apparent that haven’t lost their enthusiasm for good music and appreciation for #TheScriptFamily around the world either.
Pleasant watching also, to see people who have fought tooth and nail to get where they are, but who don’t seem to have changed as much as debatably others who may have had the same success over 8 years.
A tiny part of me did wonder if they would have sold out or tried to reinvent themselves, but on hearing a few snippets that they have circulated on the interweb (Man on a Wire, No Good in Goodbye, The Energy Never Dies, for the keen amongst you) the new album ‘No Sound Without Silence’ is set to be a much awaited treat for the ears.
Despite themselves quipping that they are ‘the break up band’, I find their honest and deep-thinking lyrics and clever use of language makes their music connect much more, surprising as that may be, than much-pop-stuff that just sings about superficial rubbish.
The exploration of the idea of where indeed is ‘the good in goodbye’ and jokingly deciding that the only thing that would make a man walk a wire between the twin towers has got to be a gal, all the while being musically interesting, is a Script fan’s dream. There’s some sailing-strings surging around in the backing and what we have been allowed to hear thus far is topped off with some energy-full-art-work by an artist they were keen on but who I have thus far been unable to Google or the identity of.
The lyrics –
‘When you’ve been fighting for it all your life
You’ve been struggling to make things right
That’s how a superhero learns to fly’
– do have a certain resonance to them that scratches below the throng of Avenger-esq movies we are being fed and does bounce the ball back into the court of the ‘single mom’ and those for who step up to life’s challenges.
With further anticipation I look forward to seeing the music video, filmed in Johannesburg with local people, the heroes of the song.
I am excited at the prospect of more music of good sing-a-long-ability, less ‘Blurred Lines’ and more ‘National-Anthem’… but one to which you actually know the words.
Well, here’s to Superheroes. Go storm the charts and I’ll be watching to see you fly.
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