331. honesty and vulnerability
Aside from John Legend, I've been hooked on the music of The Script, a 3-piece Irish rock band from Dublin. I took the time to do a soundcheck of their album & personally, I'd give it a 9/10 rating.
At one round of listening and humming to the rock/ pop beats of the band, I know that they have "potential". A HUGE one.
Why so, must you ask?
There's something about the musical arrangement and lyrical composition of these guys. If I can round it in two adjectives, it had to be the honesty and vulnerability poetically delivered on most tracks. These things are impossible to miss.
Songs such as We Cry, The Man Who Can't Be Moved, and Breakeven has been constantly played on local radio stations. I did a little Wiki-search, combined with the band's official site + Myspace account... and from what I found out, they gained a significant number of audience across UK and Ireland.
They are gradually moving on mainstream, which (frankly) stirs paranoia that there may soon be 'compromise' on their quality of music. I hope to be wrong on this; besides, it's too early to tell.
© The Script
Going back to the corner where I first saw you,
Gonna camp in my sleeping bag I'm not gonna move,
Got some words on cardboard got your picture in my hand,
Saying if you see this girl can you tell her where I am,
Some try to hand me money they don't understand,
I'm not...broke I'm just a broken hearted man,
I know it makes no sense, but what else can I do,
How can I move on when I'm still in love with you...
Cos if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me,
And your heart starts to wonder where on this earth I can be,
Thinking maybe you'll come back here to the place that we'd meet,
And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street.
So I'm not moving...
I'm not moving.
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Thoughts on the song: Is there anyone out there, whether a guy or girl, willing to do that and some more?! I wonder if the lyricist literally did (most if not) all of these stuff. Whether it was done or not, the whole of the song is modern age masochist-romanticist, you reckon?