![]() While I may have been a bit hard on it above, “Mad World” truly is a catchy song in the “the world’s going to hell” genre, with at least three different hooks that could plant themselves in an unsuspecting listener’s head on a moment’s notice. So it goes, and “Mad World” both begins and ends Tears for Fears’ most recent singles compilation, the not-all-that-imaginatively titled Gold. ![]() As it happened, the timing of a re-release of a song called “Mad World” was positively prescient. Part of the credit must also be ascribed to a world in which the word “terrorism” is as much a part of our lives as to have been rendered essentially impotent, a world in which a dictator brandishing nukes is barely worth a shrug before attention returns to a morass in an oil-rich nation. Part of the credit goes to Gary Jules’ version of the hit on the Donnie Darko soundtrack, a track that did hit #1 in the UK and caused a fair amount of resurgence in the collective population’s interest in Tears for Fears. And yet, “Mad World”, a song that needs two “very”s in front of its title for the sake of filling a beat between its prechorus and chorus, has turned into Tears for Fears’ signature song. ![]() Its sound is a bit dated at this point, and its lyrics fairly naïve and even a bit lazy. When it was released, it never got past #3 on the charts in the UK, and didn’t even register in America.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |