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The "Sledgehammer" music video was commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R. Johnson and produced by Adam Whittaker. Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. [30]
The lyrics of the song have a political and social message, [9] and explore the theme of existential questioning and the search for meaning in one's life and actions. The title of the song comes from the lyric "¿Qué cosa fuera la maza sin cantera?" English: (What would the sledgehammer be without a quarry?), referring to how life has no ...
The song was released on October 28, 2014 by Epic Records and Syco Music as the record's second single. It was written by Jonas Jeberg, Meghan Trainor and Sean Douglas, and produced by Jeberg and Harvey Mason Jr. Musically, "Sledgehammer" is a synthpop song with influences of electronic dance music, new wave and 1980s pop music.
"Solsbury Hill" is the debut solo single by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. He wrote the song about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England, [5] [2] [6] after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead vocalist since its inception.
Melanie is a musician who had been a backing vocalist in her father's band in 2002–2011. Both daughters appear in the final sequence of the video for their father's song "Sledgehammer". Gabriel's marriage became increasingly strained, culminating in Moore's affair with David Lord, the co-producer of Gabriel's fourth studio album.
The Meaning of Life was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. [29] While the Cannes jury, led by William Styron, were fiercely split on their opinions on several films in competition, The Meaning of Life had general support, securing it the second-highest honour after the Palme d'Or for The Ballad of Narayama. [30]
While the singer quipped that she “should have learned it two or three times ago,” she “finally got it” after being hit “really hard over the head with a f---ing sledgehammer.”
The song was written collaboratively by Rihanna, Sia and Jesse Shatkin. [3] Rihanna and Sia had previously worked together on the former's 2012 song, "Diamonds". [4] A new trailer for Star Trek Beyond featuring "Sledgehammer", was released on June 27, 2016, the same day that the song was released. [5]