Razorlight share upbeat new single ‘Taylor Swift = US Soft Propaganda’

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Razorlight have shared a quirky new single called ‘Taylor Swift = US Soft Propaganda’ – check it out below.Announced today (October 4), the track marks the latest single the band have shared from ‘Planet Nowhere’ – their first album with the classic line-up since 2008.Coming in at two minutes long, the song comes as an upbeat anthem for the album, and sees frontman Johnny Borrell deliver his charismatic vocals on top of a summer-inspired guitar riff.“This sounds like a filler on a Jonathan Richman album / which means this is probably the best song we’re gonna put on this one,” he says in the tongue-in-cheek opening lines.Despite the title, the lyrics of the song actually don’t mention pop sensation Taylor Swift at all – something the band joke helps them avoid being cursed with what the frontman calls “The Taylor Swift fatwa”.“We were in the studio and Björn went in to record a guitar overdub on ‘Zombie Love’.

He started playing this riff, I said ‘What’s that?’. He said ‘I dunno”. I said ‘Keep playing it’,” Borrell said, recalling how the song developed.“So Björn kept on playing and I pushed record and sang it in one take while he played it.

When you’re recording an album there’s always a song that pops up out of nothing. Regarding the title, there hasn’t been an empire in history that hasn’t required propaganda, why should America be any different?”Check out the song in full below.Since the album was announced earlier this year, Razorlight have drawn attention for the controversially-named song.Speaking to NME about their upcoming album, the band discussed why they opted to call the new song ‘Taylor Swift = US Soft Propaganda’.“I went back to the Basque country where I live and promptly forgot about being a musician for.