“A lot of frontmen live for the spotlight.
NEW KINGS OF LEON SINGLE 2016 LYRICS SKIN
For someone who’s had not one but two yacht-based injuries, Followill feels oddly uncomfortable in the skin of a rock star. In both cases, the masking resulted in commercial success, both justifying his own deep-seated unease and exacerbating his destructive and extravagant tendencies. Later, when U2 and Pearl Jam took the group under their wing, he hid his discomfort with arena rock by aping their sonic styles and lyrical generalities. On the band’s first two albums, he did this by disguising his voice, which possesses a mellifluous timbre capable of manifesting country, gospel and rock in a single elongated vowel, behind a yelping drawl, and often obstructing his face behind a bushy beard. For nearly 20 years, he’s diligently evolved the art of concealing himself in the spotlight. Not naturally inclined toward self-revelation, the struggle to be true while not exposing too much is a touchstone of Followill’s output. I feel like it (allowed me to open up) while not coming off in a cheesy way.” “In the process of singing songs about these made-up characters I noticed after the fact that it allowed me to kind of pepper my personal stories throughout. “I feel like I’ve always tried to shy away from being too obvious in songs when something’s about me,” he says. For the notoriously obtuse frontman, this meant summoning proxy protagonists onto which he could subconsciously project his lived experience. “I promise on the next album I’m gonna write about some really happy times,” he adds with a laugh.Īs the title suggests, “When You See Yourself” is an album steeped in reflection and the value of “taking a look at yourself every now and then,” Followill explains.
“I don’t know what was happening that made me take that guard down on this record, but I’m glad I did because now it will have a little more meaning. Temporarily cut off from his immediate family, he did the only thing he could think of to express himself: he put his experience to music.Ī decade later, the resulting song, “Fairytale,” has found its way onto the band’s eighth album, “When You See Yourself.” It’s one of several “deeply personal” tracks that Followill says he put immense pressure on himself to complete for the album, which was recorded pre-pandemic yet, both atmospherically and thematically, echoes many of the solitary, amorphous realities of our modern life. “That was a really dark, sad period in my life,” he recalls. Waking up the next morning, he found himself inexplicably back in his Nashville home with the rest of the band’s tour cancelled. But it was the reaction of the rest of the group, of not following him off, that gave Followill a deeper understanding of his circumstances. His was the first move: literally walking offstage in Dallas, too inebriated or exhausted to continue. Prior to that, over the holiday break, brothers Jared and Nathan Followill, teased pieces of “The Bandit,” attributing the spontaneous exposure to holiday “cheer.In July of 2011, Caleb Followill walked away from the Kings of Leon, the group he’s fronted alongside his brothers and their cousin since the early aughts. 4), Kings of Leon teased additional new tracks including, “Spin It Like We Can” and “Dancing In Your Head,” without a release date. Proceeds from the purchase of the shirts will go to Live Nation’s charity, Crew Nation, a relief fund for music crews.
That shirt, the band says, is available at its online merch store. In addition to the 10 one-of-a-kind t-shirts sent to fans, an 11th shirt has the lyrics to the lead single, “The Bandit,” printed inside.
NEW KINGS OF LEON SINGLE 2016 LYRICS FULL
Printed inside of it are the full lyrics to a new song you may hear in a couple of days, a couple of weeks, or maybe even a month or so.” “Only you, and no-one else, will ever have this collective piece.
“What you are holding is a ‘one of one’ item,” reads the note that accompanied each t-shirt. The band recently announced that they will be releasing two new tracks -“ The Bandit” and “100,000 People”-on January 7th, along with news about a new 11-track LP, the band’s first since 2016.īut for those needing more evidence of a forthcoming release, 10 KOL super-fans announced on social media that they each received a one-of-a-kind t-shirt from the group with a different set of unreleased lyrics screen-printed on the inside. Over the past few weeks, Kings of Leon has teased a handful of new songs on social media, coming on the heals of their March 2020 acoustic release of “ Going Nowhere,” which has already amassed two-million views on YouTube.
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