5/7/2023 0 Comments Total war warhammer 2I always think of when somebody said to George W. We are motivated by our desire to be loved and to have people love us and to love others. To me, love is both a terrible and a wonderful thing, and it’s the motivating factor for everything that’s gone on in the world, whether it’s George W. And that heightening the way you spoke and the melody of your voice was the only way to express the feelings that you have inside yourself. If you think about where the idea of a song came from, I have to believe that it came out of a sense somebody had one day that what they had to express just couldn’t be expressed by talking. Well, I can’t speak for other bands, you know? I think, for me, love songs are kind of synonymous with the whole idea of writing songs. Do you think that’s rare in music today, that a lot of bands are more concerned in being apathetic or too cool to write lyrics like that? You’ve always talked pretty overtly about love in your songs. Even people who murder kittens and stuff. Love is not something that only good people experience. But for me, that song is less political than it is about just how love is blind. And I just thought that was kind of an interesting topic to write a song about. It even happens to serial killers and Nazi skinheads and the darkest people in the world. It can completely be taken that way.īut to me, it’s really kind of a macabre… more of a horror story about the idea that even Hitler fell in love. I was like, “What if you wrote like a really romantic kind of Dusty Springfield love song about, you know, a Nazi skinhead soccer hooligan who fell deeply in love with another Nazi skinhead soccer hooligan? And then one of them went straight and kind of joined the work world and, you know, got his tattoos removed, and the other one didn’t.” I think, because of the album it was placed in, people saw it as a song about political protests, which is fine. ![]() It’s written by this guy, Bill Buford, who spent like three years hanging out with soccer hooligans in England, and I just suddenly had this idea in the van one day. I’ve heard the title but don’t know that much about it. I really wrote that song… I mean, it’s a novelty song, really. Was the song “Barricade” from that album in the sort of personal-political vein you’re describing? Wasn’t it a story about two people in love at like a soccer riot or some other kind of riot? ![]() I mean, you did make a record called In Our Bedroom After the War. And that’s kind of been always something that we’ve dealt with as a band, this idea that the way you treat the person lying next to you in bed is relatable to the way that you see the world and the way you behave out in the broader world. So, I think for us, the thing that’s interesting about politics when we’re writing songs is to try to relate them to personal politics. You know what I mean? It’s hard to write a political song that means something ten years on. And if you’re topical, you can be timely, but you can’t be timeless. Because I think political songs are right up there amongst the hardest songs to write. Well, I think that we’re kind of - at least I am - shy of getting too overtly political. Is that something you guys are conscious of? When Stars gets political, it always seems to be in a more subversive way than other bands.
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