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 TITLE: Fuck It All (Radio Edit: Forget It All)ARIST: Cherry Street GENRE: Indie rock, indie pop, dance-punk, synthpop, indietronica LENGTH: 3:11 RELEASED: March 19th, 2014 LABEL: Independent WRITERS: Tessa Laity, Vanessa Lynn PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky From the Album: Love Songs
While most bands would start to slow down after finally achieving some amount of the fame and recognition that they'd been craving for years, Cherry Street continues to churn out another single that's sure to do much better than the two before. They truely are a growing band, as each single seems to build on top of the other one, creating not only better songs, but also just a better group in general. While their general direction in music genre may seem all-over-the-place - like they're still looking for what specific genre of music they want to make - it's really just Cherry Street showing off what they can do now that they have a mass audience. The four girls all have different sounds and different tastes in music, and combining different ideas on a song together is difficult - even when everybody generally has the same idea on what they want to do. The girls' music and their fearlessness to venture into other sub-genres just shows how inspired and hard-working they are as a group.
The song "Fuck It All" is more of an anthem for the 21st century modern young woman than anything else. Because women are - and always have been - constantly pressured into immediately finding their 'true love' after high school by books and movies, when they don't seem to find some special someone soon, they tend to get anxious and frustrated with themselves and the world around them. The worst is when they think they've found somebody, but then it doesn't last. Cherry Street tries to explain their views on love in the song, explaining that although it's something that the heart wants - and although it's something that can hurt us - it's something that will eventually happen to us whether we want it to or not. To love is simply human nature. So while it's okay to hate love, you shouldn't hate yourself for falling in love, and you shouldn't hate yourself for suddenly enjoying being in love after it happens. The song uses a mixture of peaceful imagery that could be scenes from romantic movies ("If you come, you could follow me / Lose ourselves in a sea of dreams" and "You could take my arms and wrap them around yours / Move to the rhythms we've never heard before"), and other lyrics that show more of a penchant for lust ("You can breathe in deep that sweet air / It could soothe our souls, like a love affair," and "The moments between dusk and dawn / Make you sing like you've been turned on"). Both examples take something that could have romantic connotations - "sweet air" and the "moments between dusk and dawn" - and corrupts the innocence of them a bit by adding something lustful, like affairs or anything sexual. The tones of the girls' voices, along with the beat of the song also adds another layer of wildness to the song. Unlike the two singles released by the group before - "Breathing" and "Warm At Night" - this song does not have such a mellow tone to it. The girls' voices sound passionate and fierce as they almost practically spit the words at the listeners. The beat is loud, utilizing mostly bass throughout the song to keep that same feeling of intensity. As Tessa Laity, one of the members of the group, explained before, the group is trying to bring something different to each song at least for this first album, so this time, they're trying to show how they sound when they add something much more chipper and quick to their catalogue of songs.
It's the chorus of the song that really brings the whole song together, with all the girls in their loudest - while still controlled - voices singing, "Just say 'fuck it all,'" to their audience. The idea behind it is not to say that you should just say fuck it all to love, but that you should say fuck it all to anybody who tries to pressure you into falling in love, or makes you feel like love is the only thing that's worth it. If you stop focusing on love and stop trying to make falling in love your main goal in life, then you'll be so much happier and more open to other things around you - and you'll stop worrying about what other people think about you. Basically, you'll be saying 'fuck it all,' and then you can... well, fuck them all. Or whatever floats your boat.
It's Eva Chatburn that really gets to show off her voice in this song as she's given two whole verses to herself, singing the real meaning of the song as a whole: "Fake it, hate it, really know I do / Hate love, but don't hate yourself for loving, too / It's in vain, no shame, but don't you let go / Remember love doesn't play by quid pro quo / Hearts beat, but they can also bludgeon / No, pumping blood is not their main function / It's rough, but you know what to say / When love starts to get in the way." Of course, if you've been listening to the song, you'd know that what you should say when love starts to get in the way is 'fuck it all,' but if you didn't know, the song repeats the chorus to remind you.
The song had to be edited, obviously, for radio play, so there is a clean version and the original version of the song. "We never even thought about having to censor our songs," Aubrey Fabricant explains. "She [Reza Vranitzky, producer of the song] told us one day while recording, 'You couldn't play this on the radio,' and at first, all four of us were like, 'So?' And then we remembered that there was actually a chance of this song going on the radio now. (laughs) We're still getting used to that fact." The song's clean version holds basically the same principals as the original version. Not much of the meaning behind the song is lost by changing 'fuck' to 'forget.' In the end, it's still basically sending out the same message of living your life for yourself and not for the love that you're supposedly supposed to find in your early twenties.
TessaAubreyVanessaEvaAllChase those troubles from your head, in your head
To somewhere you can live insteadYou can breathe in deep that sweet air
It could soothe our souls, like a love affairIf you come, you could follow me
Lose ourselves in a sea of dreamsThe moments between dusk and dawn
Make you sing like you've been turned onYou could find your face in a warm embrace
Follow the cautious beat of the human raceLeave your hometowns and live your livesYou know, girls like us will never be wivesYou could take my arms and wrap them around yours
Move to the rhythms we've never heard beforeSee all the distant smilesAs they live through the daily trialsHearts can break just as easily as thin glass
When you only date snakes in the grass
See what happens when you let your life unfold
Same, not same, never the sameSo we'll search all night for our songs
In red bikini tops and thongsForget about the noisy world
Stop and watch the ravage unfurlLeave your hometowns and live your livesYou know, girls like us will never be wivesAnd just say, "fuck it all", and just say, "fuck it all"
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Just say, "fuck it all," and you can fuck it all
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Just say, "fuck it all," and you can fuck it all
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Just say, "fuck it all," and you can fuck them all
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"Fucking love might fade, but we'll never leave
We'll all party like it's New Years EveAnd if anybody has a problem, you know what to say
It is none of their fucking business anywayWe know you'll make your own mistakes
You won't learn from them, because that's what it takes
For you to find what you needYou know, girls like us will never be wivesFake it, hate it, really know I do
Hate love, but don't hate yourself for loving, too
It's in vain, no shame, but don't you let go
Remember love doesn't play by quid pro quo (La la la la la)Hearts beat, but they can also bludgeon
No, pumping blood is not their main function
It's rough, but you know what to say
When love starts to get in the wayAnd just say, "fuck it all", and just say, "fuck it all"
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Just say, "fuck it all," and you can fuck it all
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Just say, "fuck it all," and you can fuck it all
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Just say, "fuck it all," and you can fuck them all
Come on, baby, just say, "fuck it all"
Clean Version/Radio Edit:Chase those troubles from your head, in your head
To somewhere you can live insteadYou can breathe in deep that sweet air
It could soothe our souls, like a love affairIf you come, you could follow me
Lose ourselves in a sea of dreamsThe moments between dusk and dawn
Make you sing like you've been turned onYou could find your face in a warm embrace
Follow the cautious beat of the human raceLeave your hometowns and live your livesYou know, girls like us will never be wivesYou could take my arms and wrap them around yours
Move to the rhythms we've never heard beforeSee all the distant smilesAs they live through the daily trialsHearts can break just as easily as thin glass
When you only date snakes in the grass
See what happens when you let your life unfold
Same, not same, never the sameSo we'll search all night for our songs
In red bikini tops and thongsForget about the noisy world
Stop and watch the ravage unfurlLeave your hometowns and live your livesYou know, girls like us will never be wivesAnd just say, "forget it all", and just say, "forget it all"
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"
Just say, "forget it all," and you can forget it all
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"
Just say, "forget it all," and you can forget it all
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"
Just say, "forget it all," and you can forget them all
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"Stupid love might fade, but we'll never leave
We'll all party like it's New Years EveAnd if anybody has a problem, you know what to say
It is none of their *pause* business anywayWe know you'll make your own mistakes
You won't learn from them, because that's what it takes
For you to find what you needYou know, girls like us will never be wivesFake it, hate it, really know I do
Hate love, but don't hate yourself for loving, too
It's in vain, no shame, but don't you let go
Remember love doesn't play by quid pro quo (La la la la la)Hearts beat, but they can also bludgeon
No, pumping blood is not their main function
It's rough, but you know what to say
When love starts to get in the wayAnd just say, "forget it all", and just say, "forget it all"
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"
Just say, "forget it all," and you can forget it all
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"
Just say, "forget it all," and you can forget it all
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"
Just say, "forget it all," and you can forget them all
Come on, baby, just say, "forget it all"SOUNDS LIKE:
The Ting Tings - Hang It Up
Edited by user 20 March 2014 08:20:52(UTC)
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