Keane ‘Under The Iron Sea’ Podcast 6 – Tim谈关于Broken Toy 和 The Frog Prince
2008-07-27 影音资料 enchinya
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Broken Toy
Tim: “Broken Toy I really love, probably because it came together so quickly, and was really easy(!). But that’s definitely a song about … well, it’s particularly a song about the relationship between me and Tom. We’ve known each other our whole lives and we’ve always had a very ‘brotherly’ relationship, and that yields all sorts of great positive things, but it also occasionally tips over into sort of bad things because you know how to cut each other more deeply than anyone else does. It’s just a way of confronting that, I suppose – just the fact that our friendships were changing. I guess it’s a plea to try to cling onto that and not just let it slip away and not do anything about it until it’s too late. It’s a very explicit way of dealing with that, and I think it’s quite a good example of how the album was for us; when you can’t even talk about those things in normal everyday life, it’s quite hard to be singing about them in a song, but I guess it’s just our weird way of dealing with things(!).
Yeah – Tom’s singing a song that I’ve written about him. But I think the great thing about the way we make music is that anything that I write is almost reflected in what the other guys feel most of the time, and that’s why things work so well for us creatively. There are lots of songs that I write that the other guys just don’t get – they might mean a lot to me, but unless the song really touches a nerve with all three of us, we won’t do anything with it basically. But yeah, Broken Toy is a really intense one for us. It’s great to be able to sing about those things, and to play that music and feel that you’re somehow dealing with those things on a really primal level.”
The Frog Prince
Tim: “Well another theme that runs through the record is the idea of a surreal and sinister kinda fairytale world gone wrong. And that runs through A Bad Dream, Crystal Ball, Broken Toy and the whole thing of The Iron Sea definitely has a slightly macabre unreal feel to it, and I think The Frog Prince is the most literal expression of that. Again, a bit like Leaving So Soon?, it was written on behalf of all three of us. It was inspired by a conversation that Tom and I were having in a slightly drunken state in a hotel in Toronto, and we were talking about someone in another band who we felt was a really talented songwriter and really intelligent and talented person, but we felt he was busy bad-mouthing us and every other band that was around it seemed. It was very frustrating to see him go from a cool great songwriter in a small indie band, to suddenly becoming this person who’s playing the part of the arrogant rock star. And I guess we in some stupid way felt that was some sort of betrayal, because you feel that you’re part of a community of bands and people who started at kind of at the same time. So that song was a defence of us, and it’s a plea not to betray who you actually are, in the hope of impressing other people. And I guess it’s using the idea of this sinister fairytale as a way of manifesting the weird world of the media and so on, and if you wander into it thinking you can say whatever you want then people encourage you to play a part. But they’ll just as soon stab you in the back, as give you a big hug and tell you how wonderful you are. It’s very dangerous game to play, and it ends up with you ceasing to be who you really are. And we’ve always, rather naively, tried to get by on being completely who we are, and being completely honest about who we are and being completely honest about who we are – and a lot of people really respect that, but on the other hand it leaves you exposed, you don’t have a shield up of any sort; so that’s what the song is about.”