Every now and then, I get excited. Really excited. By a new band that I come across. I’m usually impressed in the first instance by a single song – take, for instance, the much celebrated and covered “Somebody That I Used To Know” by Gotye (if you haven’t heard that by now, you must have been living under the proverbial rock). And if I am really lucky, the entire album contains amazing sounds that reel me in, hook, line and sinker.
Well, recently, thanks in no small part to a random song I heard on the new music portal Spotify, I discovered this group, Foster The People.
I think I am in love. This is no passing phase. This is not merely lusting after one album. Okay, well, maybe it is. We’ll have to wait and see what they follow up with after their 2011 debut release, “Torches”. But when I discovered that the lead singer was a bit of a hotty, in that indie early twenties kinda way, I sighed a dreamy, wistful, bygone sigh…….. I am such a sucker for musical talent, across any genre it would seem…..
Back to reality….. ahem.
In particular, I cannot seem to get enough of the song below. The lyrics are sung fast, but they’re so clever. I love lyrics that make me think about them. I recommend you read along with them while you play the clip and give only a cursory glance towards the actual music video… it’s typically, um, music video-ey (I’ve never completely understood or appreciated them, sorry if that shatters any illusions).
Loving this song right now. Hard. I make no apology for the number of times any of my fellow Spotifyians (new word, just coined it) see this title go past in their “just listened to” column. I can’t help it. I am hopelessly addicted to it for now.
So, listen with me won’t you? I DARE you not to at the very least nod your head along to this. Call it a challenge, if you will! (and if you don’t then I am more seriously in need of help for my Spotify addiction than I thought… in which case, please go right ahead and plan an intervention, dear friends)
“Call It What You Want” by Foster The People
Call it what you want
I said just call it what you want
Call it what you want
We like to label everything
Well I’m just gonna do here what I gotta do here
‘Cause I gotta keep myself free
You’re ducking and moving just to hide your bruises from all your enemies
And I’m in the crossfire dodging bullets from your expectancies
You better run and hide
Yeah you’ve crossed the line
I’ve got a knife behind my back (just sayin’)
But what I’ve got can’t be bought so you can just
Call it what you want
I said just call it what you want
Call it what you want
You’ve taken your words and you take your judgments
And stick them onto everything
If it don’t conform to what you were born into,
Then you run the other way
You say, “now what’s your style and who do you listen to?” who cares?
Well that rat race ladder-climbing fake-face smile’s got nothing on me
We’ve got nothing to lose
You better run and hide
Yeah you’ve crossed the line
I’ve got a knife behind my back (just sayin’)
We’ve got nothing to prove
Your social guides give you swollen eyes
But what I’ve got can’t be bought so you can just
Call it what you want
Call it what you want
I said just call it what you want
Call it what you want
(lyrics copied from here)
There’s some nice bass goin’ on down there…
And I fear it’s probably computer-generated. But I’m willing to make an exception.
I have their “Pumped Up Kicks” song on my mp3 player and listen to it when I run (probably because I’m old enough to remember the oringinal version!). I haven’t listened to any of their other stuff, though. Will have to check out some more of their songs. x
That’s a good running song! Strange one, but catchy. I used to hear it all the time on every station (even the alternative ones) and never thought to seek them out. So I was pleasantly surprised to hear it on the album. I just think they’re clever. I like artists who can write the songs, play them (whatever the instruments/however they make the sounds) and not resort to girating on poles or otherwise sexing it all up!
I don’t need to click the video, I can hear the song in my head… I *may* have been listening to it for a while now.
As for spotify, I have you to thank for that little beauty, so, um… thanks!
Can’t stop listening to it. Can’t stop singing it when I’m not listening to it. I will completely saturate myself with this song and then probably forget it exists for the next year before rediscovering it and loving it all over again.
I played “Don’t Fight It” by The Panics over and over, after seeing it on Rage. It’s not often I’ll see/hear a song and just stop whatever I’m doing to listen to it! Another video I used to watch repeatedly was “Let Forever Be” by the Chemical Brothers. Watch it, you’ll see what I mean