Amy MacDonald’s new music was impressed by the “darker facet” of partying.
Amy MacDonald’s new music was impressed by the ‘darker facet’ of partying
The 37-year-old singer will launch her new album ‘Is This What You’ve got Been Ready For?’ in July after 5 years away and defined that the monitor ‘We Survive’ is about discovering a very good time amid the struggles in her homeland.
She informed The Solar newspaper’s Weird column: “‘We Survive’ was initially impressed by two of my closest pals who’re absolute celebration animals, and me going, ‘How do they nonetheless try this?’.
“It’s additionally concerning the darker facet. Scotland’s not obtained a fantastic relationship with celebration tradition. However folks stay up for a celebration as a result of the whole lot else is a bit s*** for us. That’s our escape. ‘We Survive’ is sort of a darkish model of ‘This Is The Life’.”
The ‘This Is The Life’ songstress has a string of tour dates to finish and following a present in Switzerland defined that it was “necessary” to get going once more, particularly as a result of her final document was launched when the world was in lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic so dwell reveals weren’t doable.
She mentioned: “Getting that first gig beneath my belt was necessary.
“We performed 4 new songs they usually obtained an incredible response. It’s cool to have the ability to lastly share these songs with folks/
“My final document got here out when Covid hit and it was a ache within the a*** as a result of we couldn’t exit on tour.
“It feels so good to place a document out after which play it dwell.”
Amy’s greatest hit was launched in 2007 and likewise served because the title monitor from her debut album, however she was stunned to be taught that it has discovered a brand new viewers because of the world of sport.
She mentioned: “I began getting a great deal of feedback on my movies in Arabic.
“Then I noticed ‘This Is The Life’ was utilized in compilations of Cristiano Ronaldo scoring objectives for his workforce there. They by no means had charts in Saudi, however then they launched it and ‘This Is The Life’ was one of many first songs to go to No1.”
