NME on the red carpet ahead of the BRIT Awards 2022, Glass Animals told us about the secret to the runaway success of their single ‘Heat Waves’ and thoughts about going all “Celtic opera” on their next album and dreams of collaborating with Lil Nas X.
Watch our interview with the band above.The Oxford band were at the London ceremony where they nominated for Best Rock/Alternative Act as well as ‘Best Song’ for ‘Heat Waves’ – which has racked up millions upon millions of streams over the last year and recently saw them become the first UK band to top Spotify’s global singles chart.“There’s something in it.
It landed at the right time,” frontman Dave Bayley told NME about the track’s success. “I feel like everyone in the pandemic has been feeling nostalgic.
No one was going out and creating new memories, they were all reliving the old ones. This song is about that – it’s about memories, it’s about missing someone, everyone’s been missing people in this age.”Does he feel like they could just write another one and cash in? “That would be the worst thing – trying to write the same thing again!” he replied. “It would be so boring.
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