#191
Meraki – Bright Lights
Wednesday 28th October 2015
They say: “Bright Lights talks about the light shone on someone or a situation, when the truth needs to come out. How having a spotlight pointed at you - can strip back anything covering up what is really going on, like a smile or a façade. These cover ups can essentially make you question the truth in what happens in certain situations or in some things people say and how they act. So a bright light can make things a lot clearer by bringing out the truth.
Bright Lights was a weird one to write, the parts were there for a long time - we just didn’t know how to use them sufficiently. Hannah and Adam sat down to write, coming up with the main chord progressions, bass parts and vocal melodies for the full song. At that time, Adam just discovered Richard Bona’s ‘Dina Lam’ and thought it was mesmerising. This is where he got his influence for the bass line and foundation of the song. It built from just bass and vocals (which was the way we were going to keep it) into the Bright Lights we have now, after the rest of the band got a hold of it.
At the time we were writing Bright Lights, we felt that our music was continuing in the aggressive and dramatic direction of our release ‘P.O.D’ however we had a powerful enough message that the music only needed to support it. It’s a relatively simple song musically which we felt was best at this stage to get our message across as it should be."
We say: “A college experiment gives birth to a glowering art-ballad. The cello wibbles, the guitar chords are peculiar, drums stutter and Hannah McKinney has a bleating, jazzy finesse that may endear her to fans of FKA Twigs.”
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