Bastille does an amazing job creating music that ventures into new territory, but that still resonates with their identity. On “Good Grief,” Dan Smith’s distinctive voice energizes the song and brings listeners joy, while simultaneously having depressing lyrics.
The first time I heard the song was on the radio. My first impression of the song came after hearing the first few words, which was a sample from a movie. The woman, Kelly LeBrock, at the beginning of “Good Grief” says, “So what would you little maniacs like to do first?” At first, I was confused, but after hearing the song several times that first line became one of my favorite parts of the song. Another part of the song that always makes me smile is the sample, “If you want to be a party animal, you have to learn to live in the jungle, now stop worrying and go and get dressed.”
In a video “I Wrote That Song,” a backstage segment on The Tonight Show, Dan described the song as an “incredibly uplifting song on the awfulness of grief.” The band also mentioned how the samples in the song were of Kelly LeBrock from the film Weird Science.
After hearing the song for the first time, I quickly started to learn the infectious lines, “What’s gonna be left of the world if you’re not it?” and “Every minute and every hour, I miss you, I miss you, I miss you more.”
The song “Good Greif” is from their second LP, Wild World, which comes out on September 9th.
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