{"id":2444978,"date":"2019-06-04T21:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T03:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=844479"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:40:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T03:40:25","slug":"lauvs-new-single-sad-forever-benefits-mental-health-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/lauvs-new-single-sad-forever-benefits-mental-health-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauv\u2019s New Single \u2018Sad Forever\u2019 Benefits Mental Health Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/LauvSadForever.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lauv\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lauv\" data-tag=\"lauv\">Lauv<\/a> unveiled a video for his new single \u201cSad Forever,\u201d which will appear on his forthcoming&nbsp;<em>How I\u2019m Felling<\/em> LP. In the clip, he discusses how he sought help for his depression and said that he wanted to \u201chelp others take their first step to get help, too.\u201d Proceeds from the song will benefit a host of mental health organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In the new visual, which he filmed last month while performing at Smart Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Philippines, Lauv sits cross-legged in the center of the venue, creating an intimate setting within the arena as he interacts with fans gathered close by. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be sad forever\/I don\u2019t want to go one more day,\u201d he sings on the chorus. \u201cI just want to wake up and realize everything\u2019s going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lauv details the story behind the song via subtitles in the video. \u201cI finished \u2018Sad Forever\u2019 on the flight over and decided to premiere it at the show \u2026 I wrote \u2018Sad Forever\u2019 at a time when I was extremely low. I was dealing with depression and OCD, but hadn\u2019t really recognized or gotten the help I needed. I felt out of control \u2026 One day I decided that what I was doing wasn\u2019t working and I needed more help.\u201d He said he trusted his psychiatrist and tried medications, and realized that it was OK to seek help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an ongoing journey with ups and downs and finding stability is a process that I\u2019m still heavily working on,\u201d he added. \u201cAll proceeds from this song will be donated to health organizations working to remove stigma and help others take their first step to get help, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song will benefit organizations across the globe, including <a href=\"https:\/\/bringchange2mind.org\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bring Change to Mind<\/a>, which is based in San Francisco, California, U.K.-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-change.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Time to Change<\/a>, Hong Kong-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mind.org.hk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Mind HK<\/a> and Australian-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondblue.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Beyond Blue<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lauv-sad-forever-song-benefits-mental-health-organizations-844479\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauv unveiled a video for his new single \u201cSad Forever,\u201d which will appear on his forthcoming&nbsp;How I\u2019m Felling LP. In the clip, he discusses how he sought help for his depression and said that he wanted to \u201chelp others take their first step to get help, too.\u201d Proceeds from the song will benefit a host [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 07:15:32","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}