Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
17 April 2024
Photo by Turn Up The Volume
Scottish dream pop veterans BELLE AND SEBASTIAN released
their lauded 12th LP Late Developers last year, in January.
The band just shared a vintage brisk pop tune that somehow didn’t
end up on the album. It’s called WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, SON? ,
Stuart Murdoch (singer/songwriter): “The song is about my youth, and the funny hole
I fell into in my late teens. I was failing at my university course, failing in almost everything I tried around then. I was obsessed with the music of the time, I used to hang so much on the lyrics and message and feeling of certain bands of the 80s era – it probably wasn’t healthy.
So although the theme of this song is a little accusatory, the fault is with the beholder.
I could have switched off at any time. Instead I let the singers become my penpals and my deities. The song tries to address what happens when the pop stars grow up, and change, and go a different way, and seem to betray the stance they held when you loved them the most.”
B&S at their jaunty pop best.