So much to speculate on! Overall, the song is all about having faith in your ability to make you dreams come true. So wholesome! The collab was with Zara Larsson! The game itself is set back in before BTS grew into the mega-famous group that it is today and promises to feature 10, never-before-seen photos and exclusive video clips. That's a hell of a lot of content. However, mastering the juxtaposition between nostalgia and evolution as a group is BTS' specialty.
Save Cancel. Really delete this comment? Yes No. Baby It's Cold Outside. Blue Bayou. Bull Rider. Dear John. Here We Go Again. Life Is Better. Love Me. More Than This. Take Off Your Cool. The Best Part. Turn Them.
Virginia Moon. More Albums. Soon The New Day. Crazy - Live In Chicago. A Song With No Name. Don't Know Why - Remastered Version. It's a variety of love songs, from sad to hopeful to optimistic - even some twisted, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone following my career. We need to look positively toward the future and not be sucked in by the lunacy that this is the end of the world, or that everything's going to fall apart - trouble, strife, plague, all that stuff.
All that becomes self-fulfilling. So my strategy is to be optimistic, naive maybe. But maybe that's my job. My challenge was to write a happy love song without being banal or smug. For example, 'Brand New Day', the last song, begins with a jaundiced view and then moves toward acceptance, to diving back into love.
It's basically the thought that falling in love is an act of optimism - and I think if the album has that tone, for me I had to trust that the music would tell me stories, begin to create characters. It's a much more mystical process. You have to be more patient. It's a little like sculpting a piece of wood - you begin to see faces in the wood. That's my obsession, and I think people expect that of me - to throw a few loops here and there, and I think people would be disappointed if I didn't.
Just to spend some time and have some fun. Only at the last minute would I allow it be called a record, I wouldn't have anyone saying, 'This is the new record'. Instead we were just playing, experimenting, or just using time in a good way. I've spent since last June getting this far - longer than I've ever spent on an album. I usually make albums in a much quicker and more professional way.
It was recorded piecemeal, a little here and there, in a casual and relaxed manner, basically in my home in Italy. I just phoned up my musicians saying, 'come over for a few weeks, the sun is shining, have some good wine,' and I didn't really look on it as doing a record until I started mixing the tracks.
Otherwise I'd be thinking I have to put a record out to satisfy the record company and pay everybody's mortgage who works for me which would stifle the creativity. Really the album is window cleaning music People will be polishing the windows, start humming a tune then suddenly go: 'Oh, it's a Sting album'.
I feel very confident about this record. It has an optimism which reflects my mood. I just hope people respond to it that way. It's always been my strategy to be optimistic, sometimes in the face of painful reality. If you are optimistic you tend to be rewarded in life. I will tend to take a risk, take a punt and see what happens. If I'm over-cautious, it doesn't really work for me. These are all love songs. I must have reached that romantic time in my life. I'm an incurable romantic and I'm very happy about that.
And anyway, I'd rather be optimistic. That's always the way I've handled my life, and it's certainly done well for me up to this point, so I don't see why the millennium should change that now. Why be afraid of the future We have a lot of problems to sort out, but lets be optimistic that we can do it. Besides, the naysayers scare me. I don't uncertainty and just plain paranoia - which is why I try to avoid them. Liner Notes With customary thoughtfulness and his usual verve, Sting is talking about 'Brand New Day', his sumptuous new album, a collection of songs exploring the theme of love.
It's basically the thought that falling in love is an act of optimism - and I think if the album has a tone, for me For every irresistible hook or melody, there's a rhythmic challenge or instrumental surprise. This time out, Sting took a new creative approach.
Since setting out from Newcastle, site of English shipbuilders and ancient Roman walls, this former teacher, soccer coach and ditch digger has made music a perpetual adventure. The Police, of course, established him as world-renowned songwriter and singer: with 'Outlandos d'Amour', 'Reggatta De Blanc', 'Zenyatta Mondatta', 'Ghost in the Machine', 'Synchronicity' and a clutch of live and best-of sets, the band Sting headed assumed the vanguard of contemporary music throughout the late Seventies and early Eighties.
On his own, he continued pioneering. Recording since , accruing a dozen Grammies and four Brit Awards, he's also extended his reach by acting in films from 's seminal film 'Quadrophenia' to the recent British comedy romp, 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', appearing on Broadway in 'Threepenny Opera', and embracing activism for causes as various as rainforest preservation and Amnesty International.
Not content, however, to rest on the laurels of past accomplishment, Sting now moves relentlessly forward. Of 'Brand New Day' and his current outlook, he says, "I feel the millennium is very much a part of this record - and as my strategy in life is to be optimistic, in art I want co be the same. We need to look positively toward the future and not be sucked in by the lunacy that this is the end of the world, or that everything's going to fall apart - trouble, strife, plague, all that stuff..
All of that becomes self fulfilling. Note, not only his bass and guitar work throughout the album, but his singing - certainly some of his most expressive yet. Delight in the deep funk of 'Perfect Love Gone Wrong', a love song, of all things of the canine variety "I think I may have been a dog in a previous life," Sting jokes. Hear how the descending melody of 'The End of the Game', a metaphoric tale of love as a cycle of hunter and hunted, glides into another of Sting's cunning rhythmic forays.
Check the smoky string-swept beauty of 'Tomorrow We'll See', a bittersweet take on love for sale, about the compassionate rendering of the song's streetwalking gender-bender. Sting says, "I remember nine years ago, in Paris, when I was making 'Soul Cages', walking through a neighbourhood which was a festival of exotic creatures.
Mainly South American males dressed as women, in a very spectacular fashion. I realised this wasn't just commerce, it was showbusiness. My wife, Trudie, made a BBC documentary of their lives. One of these characters came to me as inspiration and invaded the song. There's a Brazilian aspect to it, an aspect of 50s noir film, but this character is very proud - not willing to be judged.
I asked Cheb Mami Algerian singing sensation to compose Arabic lyrics. I gave him the counter-melody, but didn't tell him what the song was about. He came back a few days later and started to sing. When I said 'what are you singing about' he replied, 'longing. Never complacent, always a risk-taker, he continues to explore new realms of sound, of soul, of surprise.
It's a 'Brand New Day' indeed. Review from Billboard Magazine by author unknown Never one to rest on his considerable laurels, Sting rides a wave of cosmopolitan pop inspiration with this, his seventh solo album and most ambitious and affecting since 's 'The Soul Cages'. A song cycle on the sands of time and seeds of love, 'Brand New Day' brims with exoticisms from medieval chanson to Algerian rai to country, although the atmospheres are always at the service of a deeply communicative lyricism.
The moody, moving 'A Thousand Years' takes the breath away immediately with its intimate grandeur, while 'Desert Rose' ups the ante like the royal flush it is. A boldly cinematic duet with French-Algerian vocal star Cheb Mami, 'Desert Rose' swirls and soars on a new-hued groove of electric arabesques. The arrangement's international vibe demonstrates Sting's ability to ever expand his vision, and the tune - every bit the equal of 'Every Breath You Take' or 'If Ever I Lose My Faith in You' - reinforces his stature as a matchless melodist.
Gone Wrong' - the former blessed by cool-toned clarinet from Branford Marsalis, the latter a sexy French rap from Ste. Sting's compelling vocals and rock-steady bass drive the beguiling title track and first single , as it seals the album with a kiss of adult pop.
Far from going "Hollywood," Sting remains a voice of sanity and sophistication. Review from Uncut Magazine by Nigel Williamson Sting's seventh solo album has a millennial theme as he adopts an upbeat tone of new age optimism in defiance of the doomsayers. Musically it's an ambitious work, encompassing as many styles as there are songs. Guests include James Taylor and Stevie Wonder and critics will no doubt dismiss it as on over-polished coffee-table album for talking over at Notting Hill dinner parties.
The reaction is understandable for 'Brand New Day' is not really a rock record at all. But burrow under it's glossy sophistication and there is a deep and satisfying soulfulness to which you will want to return. Musically, 'Brand New Day' offers the usual humalong melodies stretched over excruciatingly complicated rhythmic structures smoothed out by musicianship of almost supernatural grace and coated in a sophisticated production gloss. Sting chases some exotic Middle Eastern harmonic intervals in 'Desert Rose', a duet with the Arab singer Cheb Mami, but for the most part he ends up sounding like the educated and regally detached observer he so obviously is.
0コメント