Popjustice - Song of the Day *New Single*

[Anne-Marie]

Was great to see this on Facebook this morning when i logged in!!

www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4067&Itemid=243

'Hopes & Fears'



By Will Young


'Hopes & Fears' is a grown up pop song about RELATIONSHIP WOES. It's hard to pinpoint exactly where it will fit in the pre-Christmas bunfight - despite being an upbeat number it's almost too fragile for such unsavoury scenes - but it's a great tune which sounds like Will's best bits without sounding like a repeat of Will's best bits.

The clip you are about to hear is the bit coming out of the middle eight breakdown bit, so it's a little bit adlibby and all over the show compared with a 'proper' chorus but it's our favourite bit because it contains Will's mansinging and it's good to hear him doing that. He's got a lovely voice, hasn't he?

Go listen! Loving it already and can't wait to hear the whole thing now! Sooo glad it's an upbeat track!

[suzzi]

I'm loving the sound of this! ;D

Will has a truly unique voice/sound, which seems a rarity in today's music scene.

[ManicKangaroo]

From the RCA website:

The brand new track was written by Stew Jackson and Yolanda Quarty of Phantom Limb - who you may remember will be supporting Will on tour later this year. The track also features production from Robot Club.

[fridayfan]

Sounds great and can't wait to hear the rest!

[troublepet]

Loving the sound of it so far


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Story filed Tuesday, 22 September 2009


1. 'Hopes & Fears' sounds a bit like two different Eurythmics songs plus bits of Laughing Girl Lennox solo tune 'Little Bird', except with a man singing.

2. It's upbeat in the BPM stakes but lyrically it is a 'mature relationship' song and is not, for example, an excitable jumping-up-and-down ditty of teenage romance. It's a very sober sort of pop tune. It begins with Will saying "look at what you do to me, I don't know who I'm becoming, baby looks like you're no good, you don't take care of me like you should", while the chorus notes that "hopes and (hopes and) fears bring us all to tears, baby this'll tear us apart, I don't even know what you want".

3. It is three minutes and forty seven seconds in length. That's seventeen seconds longer than the optimum length of a decent pop tune but the last seventeen seconds is just adlibs so you could probably fade it early if you wanted. Which would be a shame, because then there would be a fade instead of...

4. ...the song's abrupt end.

5. It works as well a single aimed at flogging copies of Will's Greatest Hits but it doesn't really sound like anything else on the Greatest Hits, so it's one of those looking-back-while-looking-forward jobs.

6. There are some amazing bursts of MANSINGING late on in the song in which Will's voice goes all deep and commanding and blokey.

7. It is not jazz and it is not overly serious and/or muso. Nor is it stupid. It's all very 'on brand' for Will Young ie "here I am singing a song about serious relationship issues, oh hang on I appear to be riding a horse/going for a swim/pretending to be John Noakes in a video" etc. Very charming and warm and approachable and all the usual Will Young things.

8. There's a "let go let go let go" middle eight where loads of the song drops out and then it all comes back in again.

9. If it hasn't already, it's destined to cause a small explosion at a Radio Two playlist meeting.

10. And that's your lot.

[S1m]

Love the snippet!