{"id":2446965,"date":"2019-07-30T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=865347"},"modified":"2019-07-30T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T20:10:16","slug":"how-i-wrote-this-bastille-on-how-brexit-and-heartbreak-influenced-bad-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/how-i-wrote-this-bastille-on-how-brexit-and-heartbreak-influenced-bad-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Wrote This: Bastille on How Brexit and Heartbreak Influenced \u2018Bad Decisions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bastille<\/a> broke through with 2013\u2019s \u201cPompeii,\u201d an emotional, bombastic stomper that has racked up more than 27 million YouTube views. The band took a darker turn for their new album Doom Days<\/em>, a concept album about how to have fun and find escapism during an apocalypse.<\/p>\n

In the latest video for our How I Wrote This<\/a> series, which previously featured Gary Clark Jr<\/a>. and Alessia Cara<\/a>, Bastille frontman Dan Smith breaks down how he wrote one of the album\u2019s key tracks, \u201cBad Decisions.\u201d With lyrics like, \u201cIf the world is ending, let\u2019s stay up all night,\u201d Smith he \u201cwanted to get at that sort of fuzzy, nihilistic feeling\u201d that captures both the end of the world and the end of a relationship.<\/p>\n

Brexit also came into play: \u201cWe also wanted to look at the national and international bad decisions,\u201d Smith says, \u201cEspecially when it comes to voting \u2026 Everybody has to live with the consequences of those decisions. In the U.K. ,we are years on from having voted to leave the E.U., which is something that I, or we, don\u2019t think is remotely a good idea at all. It\u2019s still undecided. It\u2019s kind of a turbulent time, and I guess we\u2019re dealing with that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, Smith sits down and plays a soulful version of the song, free of any studio tricks, at the historic East Village space La MaMa. That was refreshing for Smith: \u201cI get really sucked down the rabbit hole of production and detail because I fucking love it so much,\u201d he says. \u201cBut it can be so nice to just play the song and enjoy the chords of it and what it\u2019s saying and the lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bastille are also on tour, and will come to the U.S. in September. See the dates here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bastille broke through with 2013\u2019s \u201cPompeii,\u201d an emotional, bombastic stomper that has racked up more than 27 million YouTube views. The band took a darker turn for their new album Doom Days, a concept album about how to have fun and find escapism during an apocalypse. In the latest video for our How I Wrote […]<\/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-2446965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 12:07:01","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'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\/2446965","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=2446965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}