{"id":807570,"date":"2020-05-18T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/the-used-have-celebrated-frontline-workers-in-their-new-video-for-the-light"},"modified":"2020-05-18T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:03:00","slug":"the-used-have-celebrated-frontline-workers-in-their-new-video-for-the-lighthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-used-have-celebrated-frontline-workers-in-their-new-video-for-the-lighthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Used Have Celebrated Frontline Workers In Their New Video For \u2018The Lighthouse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Every day you wake up and leave your loved ones to fight to keep us safe&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/theused_lighthouse2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Used<\/strong> have released a video for their song &#8216;The Lighthouse&#8217;, featuring <strong>blink-182&#8217;s<\/strong> Mark Hoppus.<\/p>\n<p>After initially asking frontline workers to send in videos with the message <em>\u201cEvery day you wake up and leave your loved ones to fight to keep us safe. We want to showcase them in our new music video&#8221;,<\/em> the result is a celebration of the incredible efforts that so many are putting in to look after and protect us all in these uncertain and testing times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Bert McCracken added this to the video:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.\u201d \u2013 William Shakespeare<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoubt can be an avalanche. It can cascade out and infect everything it touches. Inspiration is also infectious. The original chorus lyric was \u201cI can\u2019t be your lighthouse\u201d until I was reminded by my 6-year-old daughter that I can be and I am. It helps to remember that we all have the capability to inspire someone in our own way. Please enjoy our song The Lighthouse as much as we do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Have a watch below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpZUm2rpaM8\" width=\"635\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The track is taken from the band&#8217;s new album &#8216;Heartwork&#8217; which is out now via Big Noise\/ Hassle Records.<\/p>\n<p>We recently spoke to Bert all about the record. You can read the full interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/features\/read\/the-useds-bert-mccracken-on-heartwork-were-now-able-to-paint-a-different-so\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>, but here&#8217;s a little snippet for ya:<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you\u2019re able to create a record that is able to produce that many feelings and thoughts and questions and answers, it must be a joy as an artist to be a part of it&#8230;<\/strong><br \/><em>\u201cIt\u2019s always been what I love about art. The ability to find you in a story or a song or piece of art is what makes that story or song or piece of art. It\u2019s what makes it yours. That\u2019s why we love music because we hear our lives in those stories. We had a bit of a concept going into making this record but we then abandoned whilst in the studio with Feldmann because we wanted this record to fit in that world which the first two records existed in. Those songs are as close to personal that you could possibly get, yet they are still so very open. It\u2019s general enough that somebody can take those lyrics as their own. It\u2019s just what we all share as humans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt helps that we have found a little bit of humility within the longevity of the band. Being around for 20 years has made us feel like the connection with the fans is because we have simply been ourselves. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s ever been once where we tried to flex on someone. It was always about connecting to that human story and pondering the human connection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were there any moment in the last 20 years, or even the last 10 years, where you thought that this is what form The Used would be taking at this moment in time?<\/strong><br \/><em>\u201cI think so. I think there are always these small incremental steps, but in the back of my mind I\u2019ve forced myself to think that I was good enough to always have a place in music. I think I\u2019ve surprised myself along the way, and there would have been moment along there, maybe 12 and 18 years ago, where I definitely thought \u2018I can\u2019t keep this up\u2019. This music always seemed like the inevitable next thing though. Though if I think too far down the road, like what does The Used look like in 10 years, I barely get a minute into the thought process.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well the beauty of \u2018Heartwork\u2019 is that there are moments that people may never have thought they would have heard on a Used record, and the same for you. That\u2019s why you shouldn\u2019t look too far ahead, because anything can happen&#8230;<\/strong><br \/><em>\u201cI think that the experience for us was worth the chance to do anything. We approached the recording process with the mindset that we will say yes to everything. There\u2019s not a day that goes by that I don\u2019t think how lucky I am to know a person like John Feldmann with whom I can still make music in that way. I know that there are people who would literally die to do what I do. Just sit around and drink coffee with friends and write songs about whatever the fuck we want. I think it\u2019s my goal to be grateful for that and put my entire physical, mental and emotional self into this and to take it very seriously. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve continued to do and it feels good.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can pick up the record on beautiful vinyl from our good friends over at EMP right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emp.co.uk\/p\/heartwork\/466126.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt src=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/assets\/uploads\/THEUSED_VINYL.jpg\"><\/em><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocksound.tv\/news\/read\/the-used-have-celebrated-frontline-workers-in-their-new-video-for-the-light\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rock Sound News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every day you wake up and leave your loved ones to fight to keep us safe&#8221; The Used have released a video for their song &#8216;The Lighthouse&#8217;, featuring blink-182&#8217;s Mark Hoppus. After initially asking frontline workers to send in videos with the message \u201cEvery day you wake up and leave your loved ones to fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 18:57:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}