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"Scared to Live" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd from his fourth studio album After Hours. [1] He performed the song for the first time on March 8, 2020, with American musician Oneohtrix Point Never , during an episode of Saturday Night Live . [ 2 ]
Songwriter Ian Anderson described the song as "a blues for Jesus, about the gory, glory seekers who use his name as an excuse for a lot of unsavoury things. You know, 'Hey Dad, it's not my fault — the missionaries lied.'" [3] Sean Murphy of PopMatters wrote that, "For “Hymn 43” Anderson sets his sights on the US and in quick order sets about decimating the hypocrisy and myth-making of ...
"Locomotive Breath" was released on Jethro Tull's 1971 album Aqualung in 1971. An edit of the song was released in the US as a single in 1971, backed with "Wind-Up", though it did not chart. A 1976 single release of the song, backed with "Fat Man", was more successful, reaching number 59 on the Billboard charts [8] and number 85 in Canada. [9]
The songs on the album encompass a variety of musical genres, with elements of folk, blues, psychedelia, and hard rock. [11] The "riff-heavy" nature of tracks such as "Locomotive Breath", "Hymn 43" and "Wind Up" is regarded as a factor in the band's increased success after the release of the album, with Jethro Tull becoming "a major arena act" and a "fixture on FM radio" according to AllMusic.
The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks. While this track was never a single, its self-titled album Aqualung was Jethro Tull's first American Top 10 album, reaching number seven in June 1971. [4] After "Locomotive Breath", it is the song most often played in concert by Jethro Tull. [5]
The lyrics of "Repeat After Me" are summarized to "you love me, not him" by Pitchfork, with its sound being described by Rolling Stone as a "wounded power ballad overlaid with spacey bubble-prog keyboards." [3] [4] The song's intro features garbled vocals from the Australian musician Kevin Parker, who is one of the song's producers. [5]
The song also gives the perspective of onlookers and the other person in the relationship. Her friends say “It isn’t right to be scared,” in a relationship. The man blames her, saying she ...
"Snowchild" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd from his fourth studio album After Hours. [1] It was released on March 20, 2020, alongside the rest of its parent album. [ 2 ] A music video for the song was released on July 22, 2020. [ 3 ]