The View were one of those bands whose debut album was played repeatedly on my iPod when it was first released, I then kinda missed their second album and didn't even know they'd done a third or fourth until today. I was on Facebook earlier when someone uploaded 'Same Jeans' which compelled me to see what they were doing now. What I found was this track, Standard. It's got the same catchy lyrics and upbeat melody of the old material yet now I'm older I can see the darker themes of the music, this track in particular seems to be about an abused mother who isn't allowed to see her children. The video isn't much brighter either, we see the protagonist of the story steal a packet of stickers from a shop, refused to see her child, get beaten by her husband/boyfriend and just seem to have a massively miserable life. The video ends with the mother stabbing her partner in the chest while he's asleep and leaving his body while she goes to the pub, where she is ultimately arrested in front of the daughter she'd just reconciled with. The track itself is a well executed poppy, punky and overall upbeat sounding piece of music, unfortunately this band will be relegated to only ever being known for Same Jeans which really is a shame as there is always has been more to them than just that one track. This was taken from their new compilation album Seven Year Setlist.
Saturday, 3 August 2013
The View - Standard
Video released June 12th 2013
The View were one of those bands whose debut album was played repeatedly on my iPod when it was first released, I then kinda missed their second album and didn't even know they'd done a third or fourth until today. I was on Facebook earlier when someone uploaded 'Same Jeans' which compelled me to see what they were doing now. What I found was this track, Standard. It's got the same catchy lyrics and upbeat melody of the old material yet now I'm older I can see the darker themes of the music, this track in particular seems to be about an abused mother who isn't allowed to see her children. The video isn't much brighter either, we see the protagonist of the story steal a packet of stickers from a shop, refused to see her child, get beaten by her husband/boyfriend and just seem to have a massively miserable life. The video ends with the mother stabbing her partner in the chest while he's asleep and leaving his body while she goes to the pub, where she is ultimately arrested in front of the daughter she'd just reconciled with. The track itself is a well executed poppy, punky and overall upbeat sounding piece of music, unfortunately this band will be relegated to only ever being known for Same Jeans which really is a shame as there is always has been more to them than just that one track. This was taken from their new compilation album Seven Year Setlist.
The View were one of those bands whose debut album was played repeatedly on my iPod when it was first released, I then kinda missed their second album and didn't even know they'd done a third or fourth until today. I was on Facebook earlier when someone uploaded 'Same Jeans' which compelled me to see what they were doing now. What I found was this track, Standard. It's got the same catchy lyrics and upbeat melody of the old material yet now I'm older I can see the darker themes of the music, this track in particular seems to be about an abused mother who isn't allowed to see her children. The video isn't much brighter either, we see the protagonist of the story steal a packet of stickers from a shop, refused to see her child, get beaten by her husband/boyfriend and just seem to have a massively miserable life. The video ends with the mother stabbing her partner in the chest while he's asleep and leaving his body while she goes to the pub, where she is ultimately arrested in front of the daughter she'd just reconciled with. The track itself is a well executed poppy, punky and overall upbeat sounding piece of music, unfortunately this band will be relegated to only ever being known for Same Jeans which really is a shame as there is always has been more to them than just that one track. This was taken from their new compilation album Seven Year Setlist.
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