The Rolling Stones Drop New Track Completed During Self-Isolation
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To help fans overcome their blues of the No Filter North American tour being postponed until further notice, the Rolling Stones have just released a track suited for these surreal times.
Living in a Ghost Town is the band’s first song in eight years. It was partially produced during the lockdown, and though it makes an apt representation of the world’s now-ghost towns, the Rolling Stones actually started on the track in early 2019.
Mick Jagger told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that the rock group had already recorded material for new music prior to the lockdown, and later discovered that Living in a Ghost Town was the one that “would resonate through the times that we’re living in right now.”
Jagger emphasized that the track wasn’t deliberately written to illustrate life during the crisis. “It was written about being in a place which was full of life but is now bereft of life, so to speak,” he described.
The original lyrics took him just 10 minutes to complete. However, when the unprecedented pandemic struck, he felt the song had to be rewritten as “some of [the lyrics were] a bit weird and a bit too dark.”
Interestingly, the lyrics didn’t need so many adjustments. “I didn’t have to rewrite very much, to be honest,” Jagger said. “It’s very much how I originally did it.”
“Life was beautiful, then we all got locked down,” reads a line in the finalized song.
The music video perpetuates the new normal with footage of emptied-out streets and transport systems. As the world remains quiet, take a listen at the soundtrack for life in 2020.
[via Rolling Stone and CNET, video and cover image via The Rolling Stones]
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