Erika Footman (2012) Vocals / Lyrics Electronic / Dance. —Dan Smith, explaining the meaning behind the lyrics of "Pompeii" Parisian maestro, Monsieur Adi, is making his name be heard over the blogosphere with his latest remixes. [17] It spent a record 92 consecutive weeks in the top 100 (since matched by "Happy" by Pharrell Williams). [22] By March 2014, the song had reached top 5 in the Hot 100 in its 29th week, and has sold over two million digital copies. Love Looks by Style of Eye and Lars Allertz (2014) Vocals / Lyrics Electronic / Dance. Bastille – Pompeii Video Analysis 2. However, there is something about "Pompeii" that just sounds perfect. Smith explained the song's meaning to The Sun: "Pompeii is actually an imagined conversation between two charred corpses reflecting on the city." I had a research to find an artist that uses synthesizer in their music, Pompeii by Bastille is one of them. It reached #3 at mainstream pop radio and #2 adult pop radio. It is very easy to see Bastille's breakthrough pop hit as some sort of cheesy combination of Coldplay's anthemic pop-rock and the latest in electronic dance music infused alt-pop. 2020-05-11T06:30:47Z Comment by TIIARA. The song has a tempo of 128 beats per minute and is written in the key of A major with a chord progression of D-A-F#m-E. He delivers the song's key line, "And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we lo-o-ove," and the listeners swoon. Here in the US the song has turned into a smash across multiple formats. Todd: ... it's not a metaphor at all. The story is an allegory for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. “Lethargy” — Wild World. i remember that sound from kindergarten. Bastille's second studio album Wild World appeared in September 2016. Saved by F K. Dan Smith Bastille Pompeii Soft Grunge Glitch Good Music My Music Indie Music Storming The Bastille Pale Tumblr. Bill Lamb is a music and arts writer with two decades of experience covering the world of entertainment and culture. It reached #2 on the UK pop singles chart and ultimately the song received a Brit Awards nomination for British Single Of the Year. Music by Bastille has been featured in the All My Life soundtrack, Love Island (US) soundtrack and Fortnite soundtrack. The song hit the top 10 on both the alternative and rock radio charts while again being largely ignored by pop radio. Some of Bastille's most popular songs include 'Oblivion,' which was featured in the Love Island (UK) soundtrack, and 'Pompeii,' featured in the Dancing With the Stars soundtrack. I don’t want to say R&B but their as a kind of edge to it tht makes that click in my head. "Pompeii" is a song by British band Bastille. @the_real_dirty_dan oh yea nothing like it . [8], The video follows Bastille frontman Dan Smith, as he wanders about an empty-looking Los Angeles, before realizing the few people around all have unnatural vacant black eyes. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. The darkness descends on a broken relationship just like the lava from Mt. [20], The song reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in October 2013 and began climbing the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The name of the band derives from Bastille Day, which is celebrated on 14 July, Smith's birthday. Februar 2014, 12:40. "Pompeii" became the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart and became the eleventh best-selling song that year and, until June 2014, was the country's most streamed single of all time. I do like the instrumentation of this song. The vocals admit that it can feel like nothing has changed if the threat is ignored. 1 with 'Pompeii, "Pompeii is STILL the UK's most listened to song! The singers behind the melody, almost bring a tribal kind of sound to the song which I absolutely love! On this page, hear how 'Pompeii' by Bastille sounds like The Killers: 'Human' | Sounds Just Like "Pompeii" ultimately climbed to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has sold more than five million copies in the US alone. The song is featured in the official trailer of the, On November 18, 2019, the song was the first to be played on, This page was last edited on 10 March 2021, at 23:53. 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And if you close your eyes ... Also das ist ein klasse Song Bastille singt sinnvolle Lieder mit Bedeutung. He added: "But that's why I don't like explaining a lot of my songs literally as it sounds bonkers – a song about two corpses yet the crowd are happily dancing along!" [5] A mashup of the song with Rudimental and Ella Eyre's "Waiting All Night" was performed live by Rudimental, Eyre and Bastille at the aforementioned ceremony,[6] which reached number 21 in the UK. "Joy" comes close, but something about it feels off. Vesuvius overwhelmed Italy's ancient city of Pompeii. BASTILLE - POMPEII A pop song review. Overall, this didn't need to be substandard. Sweet Pompeii by Bastille feat. I love the weird guitar riff and the collossal drum sounds; the beat does have a vast feel to it. Love his voice . It is soon joined by a percussive electronic bass line that reminds us of the long shadow of electronic music pioneers New Order. With over 26 million streams by June 2014, "Pompeii" became the most streamed song of all time in the UK at that time[18] and has sold 895,000 copies there. There’s just something about the entirety of “Lethargy” that I relate to. [9], The song reached number one in Scotland and Ireland, and peaked at number two in Italy and the UK. is likely to raise another smile. With another historical parallel, the band Bastille takes its name from the fact that leader Dan Smith was born on France's historical holiday Bastille Day. Does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? It almost sounds like a parody of an old Bastille song, or like they're badly plagiarizing themselves. With similar sounds to Daft Punk and Justice, Monsieur Adi remixed a song by South London's quartet, Bastille, who are also out making their name be heard with their debut album entitled Bad Blood. Bastille (stylised as BΔSTILLE) is an English pop rock band formed in 2010. More than two million digital copies of the single have been sold in the US alone. . . DAILY SONG DISCUSSION 97: Sweet Pompeii Hey fellow Bastille fans, here is another daily song discussion, which is exactly what it sounds like. Dan Smith and his band Bastille may never quite reach these heights again, but they have created their pop-rock masterpiece. If this track were a meal that you were about to eat, you would be stuffed after listening. The song's title and lyrics refer to the Roman town of the same name that was destroyed and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January 2013. Maybe it's [another painting of...] literally about the destruction of Pompeii. The YouTube video became inundated with commenters arguing in Latin over whether Uytterhoeven's translation was grammatically correct or not. The video was first released onto YouTube on 20 January 2013 at a total length of three minutes and fifty-two seconds. To be sort of stuck in that same position for hundreds and hundreds of years. The group began as a solo project by lead vocalist Dan Smith, but later expanded to include keyboardist Kyle Simmons, bassist and guitarist Will Farquarson and drummer Chris "Woody" Wood. He climbs a mountain and looks out at the view, before turning around to reveal his own eyes have turned black as well. The song's title and lyrics refer to the Roman town of the same name that was destroyed and buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.[2]. Alongside quintessentially heartfelt Bastille songs like "Another Place" are tracks such as "4AM," which moves from a cozy acoustic singalong to brass and beats with the seamless flow of their mixtapes, and "Million Pieces," which sets Doom Days' escapist heights to rhythms that evoke '90s garage.