I know that Tears for Fears is a dated 80s band. I know this band before, since my cousin is one of those fans of 80s pop and rock icons. His cabinet is full of cassete tapes collected over the years. Right now, he collects pirated concert DVDs and one of the artist that he liked is Tears for Fears. I never paid attention to this band. But things changed when I did my Smallville marathon two or three months ago.I think that the episode where a Tears for Fears song was played was on a season 2 episode. I remember that the song was being played while Clark Kent was all alone in his place of solitude, on the cave. Then song starts to stream in. I know from that moment that the song is eeriely familiar but I can't seem to locate where and when I first heard it. It took me a few days to continously hum the song, and I made a few research over the net. After some time, I came to learn the fact that the song was from Tears for Fears. It was totally different from the original one, but you know instantly that this is way better than the original!
It was revealed that the Mad World song was intended as a b-side for Tears for Fears second single, Pale Shelter. When I first heard the song over Smallville, I thought how appropriate. It literally frames the scene, the mood and the condition of Clark Kent. Truly, we are living in a mad world. In fact, I even made my own twisted interpretation, ahem as always making Mad World a song for me. That the song talsk about the insensivity of the people around us and the growing alienation that we encounter as day goes by. But no matter how deep I and you go, the writers of the song says otherwise, Roland Orzabal said;
I learned as well that the song was covered by Gary Jules for Donnie Darko. I need to watch the film. Anyone has a copy of the movie? If the Mad World original is full of 80s fingerprints like synthesizers and percussions, the Jules version was stripped bare with piano and cello taking stage. I checked some info regarding the movie, and it seems that the movie is great as well.
It was revealed that the Mad World song was intended as a b-side for Tears for Fears second single, Pale Shelter. When I first heard the song over Smallville, I thought how appropriate. It literally frames the scene, the mood and the condition of Clark Kent. Truly, we are living in a mad world. In fact, I even made my own twisted interpretation, ahem as always making Mad World a song for me. That the song talsk about the insensivity of the people around us and the growing alienation that we encounter as day goes by. But no matter how deep I and you go, the writers of the song says otherwise, Roland Orzabal said;
Lyrically the song is pretty loose. It throws together a lot of different imagesAdded Curt Smith;
to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the world
It's very much a voyeur's song. It's looking out at a mad world from the eyes of
a teenager.
I learned as well that the song was covered by Gary Jules for Donnie Darko. I need to watch the film. Anyone has a copy of the movie? If the Mad World original is full of 80s fingerprints like synthesizers and percussions, the Jules version was stripped bare with piano and cello taking stage. I checked some info regarding the movie, and it seems that the movie is great as well.
0 comments:
Post a Comment