Are We There Yet?

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Hardly any women used to work in live music crews, but we now have a female lighting director, a female guitar tech, female monitors, which is brilliant. It’s mind-boggling to think there used to be a time when girls were told: “You can’t do those jobs – go to wardrobe, love.” Being the youngest, I used to watch things that I should not have been watching. I remember watching the news and being absolutely freaking terrified. I was born in ’66, so it was the early ’70s and stuff, the IRA was a massive thing. There were always bombings, you grew up watching things and thinking, ‘Wow, man, it’s terrifying.’ This is a little bit about seeing things through the eyes of a kid and being terrified. Also, I wanted to rescue it a little bit and have it be a chorus that people could sing along with.”

Johnny Marr tweeted criticism of your original Smiths covers shows with Blossoms in 202 1 . He’s since made up with them in person. Have you ever met?Move Right Out" and "The Ones You Love" (ARIA) peaks: "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 15 July 2015". Imgur.com. Archived from the original on 16 July 2015 . Retrieved 15 September 2015. [ bettersourceneeded] His seventh studio album, 50, was released in June 2016. The album peaked at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Astley's first number-one album since his 1987 debut album, Whenever You Need Somebody. " Keep Singing" was released as the lead single from the album on 6 April 2016, peaking to number 127 on the UK Singles Chart. " Angels on My Side" was released as the second single from the album on 13 May 2016. When I Fall in Love"/"My Arms Keep Missing You" (Australian Music Report) peak: "Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart – Week Ending 29th May 1988". ARIA . Retrieved 13 October 2020– via Imgur.com. For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "ultratop.be – Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight". Ultratop. Top 100 (ARIA) peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDFed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p.19.

I feel like life is a bit of a waterfall and I’m under it—and sometimes it feels lovely and it’s great and I’m having a lovely shower in it, it’s nature, and it’s wonderful. And sometimes I’m drowning and I’m really struggling. I feel I see that in a lot of my friends, and you see it in the wider world. It’s about the fact that life is amazing and great, but it’s also really tough sometimes, and we’re all under that waterfall and we do all need a little bit of healing sometimes. The hope is we’ll get through it and I think music sometimes gets me through it.” a b "RIAA – Recording Industry Association of America – Searchable Database". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 27 June 2011. This is simple, love song writing, about when you let someone down and they’re never going to forget it. I don’t think that’s relatable to me, necessarily. I do let my wife down sometimes, that’s for sure. I love the opening because it reminds me of Motown. Sometimes I just want to write a song somebody can dance to and sing along to.” For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight". offiziellecharts.de. The album was inspired by the soul music of Marvin Gaye, Al Green and Bill Withers, [1] and recorded at the Astley's home studio in London. [4] Astley stated that he believed "spending five months in America" on tour there in 2022 "retuned [his] ear a little bit" in regards to his guitar playing. [5] Singles [ edit ]The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 23 October 2023". The ARIA Report. No.1755. Australian Recording Industry Association. 23 October 2023. p.10. Matt Collar of AllMusic wrote that the album "feels like a love letter to the earthy, blues-influenced work of artists like Bill Withers and Otis Redding" and found that "all of the rootsy soulfulness Astley embraces on Are We There Yet? is far removed from the studio sophistication of his early hits. That said, it feels genuine and hard-won by age and experience." [4] Retropop called it "some of his finest work since the 1980s" and felt that the "direction [...] perfectly compliments Astley's distinctive vocals, be it on mid tempo guitar-led numbers like 'Letting Go' and 'Golden Hour', or more R&B-leaning tunes in the vein of 'Never Gonna Stop' and 'Waterfall'". [12] Top 100 ( Australian Music Report) peaks to 12 June 1988: Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. pp.20–21. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent/Australian Music Report was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988. a b c d e "BPI Searchable Database". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010 . Retrieved 27 June 2011.

No. We both played Electric Picnic recently and I watched his show – his style of playing and technique is also like nobody else. But I wouldn’t talk to him because it’s really strange and weird. Really, nobody should cover the Smiths, but all this came from a real love of the songs, and a chat I had with Blossoms, where I said: “In another universe, I’m going to be in a Smiths pub covers band”, then them later asking me if I fancied it. And it grew into this mad thing. It turns out lots of people want to go to a full concert of just Smiths songs! For "Can You Feel the Love Tonight": "Elton John – Can You Feel The Love Tonight – dutchcharts.nl". Do we all dream enough? Do we search for that bar that’s a bit further up? Did you reach high enough? Again, it’s reflective of my own life a little bit. As my manager and also as my wife, my wife is more confident about my stuff than me and probably pushes it more than I do. We’ll get an offer to do something and I’ll go, ‘I don’t know about that,’ and she’ll say, ‘I know you can and it’s going to work out, it’ll be great.’ But it doesn’t have to be about my career, it can be about anything in life. It’s just that thing: ‘Did we actually really go for it?’”Respect. I’ve seen friends who’ve lost that, and without it you’re screwed. Obviously I still fancy Lene, but I think the truth and reality of it is I’ve got such respect for who she is as a person. Everything else comes second. Are We There Yet? was announced on 20 June 2023 alongside the release of the album's lead single "Dippin My Feet". [2] This came ahead of Astley performing on the Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival 2023, where he also performed "Dippin My Feet". Astley had previously been asked to perform there in 2020, but it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] The southern soul of ‘Dippin’ My Feet’ and the sweaty, brass-driven ‘Maria Love’ are a million miles away from the shiny synth-driven pop he made his name with. ‘Never Gonna Stop’ and ‘Waterfall’ (not a Stone Roses cover, sadly) see him employing a gospel groove, while the closing ‘Blue Sky’ adds some Americana to proceedings, the former pin-up sounding world-weary, as he admits, “I’m a man of steel and rust, my concrete heart is crumbling to dust”. My wife does drive me absolutely crazy and vice versa, but she drives me crazy in every sense of the word. There’s a line in the song that says something like, ‘Sometimes I question why we’re here’, and it says, ‘Just holding your hand takes away my fears.’ We have that [kind of] relationship. Like Glastonbury, which I never thought was ever going to happen, I thought that was a dream long gone, but we did that this summer [in 2023]—I was holding hands with my wife as I walked up to the stage.”

What’s really amazing, after a couple solid decades of Morrissey popping off the worst possible takes about immigration and Brexit and more, is hearing those classic songs being sung by someone likable. Astley is more diplomatic: “It's a well turned phrase, but you have to separate the art from the artist. A lot of the great painters were not the nicest people in the world. Sometimes you just have to say what they produced was amazing, but I just don't want to know anything about their politics or their feelings about humanity because that's something else.” Still, going forward, I will gladly take my Smiths without the Morrissey, thank you.a b "Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA): Gold & Platinum". Canadian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 11 May 2011 . Retrieved 27 June 2011. The second song in your Glastonbury solo set, 2016 ’s Keep Singing , talked about your tough childhood [Astley’s parents divorced when he was five ; he then lived with his father but estranged himself from him as an adult ]. How do you handle those memories? Swedish Certifications" (PDF). Swedish Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2012. The second single " Never Gonna Stop" was released on 22 August 2023. Astley revealed that he wrote the song after reading an article about artificial intelligence. [8] "Never Gonna Stop" spent several weeks on the UK Singles Sales Chart and peaked at number 49. [7] The video was filmed by his wife on a mobile phone on a beach in Denmark, with Astley stating it was done "on a shoestring" as they "had run out of time to make a video" because he had been ill. [9] The internet can be very brutal for younger artists, but it can also be an amazing tool, where you can post something intimate, from the horse’s mouth, without gatekeepers. Then again, I heard Warners are releasing an AI pop singer, so for some kinds of music it’s probably already over. But at the end of the day we need to be around human beings. I don’t think we’ll ever lose that.