Sam Fender has revealed that his record label want him to cheer up and “write us something happier”.In an interview with Total Guitar (and reported by The List), Fender spoke about how “[my label] do sometimes say, ‘Sam stop being so fucking miserable, write us something a bit happier”.“But I do yearning and hopeful, not happy, because happy is boring,” he explained. “I like what ABBA do, which is sad lyrics and uplifting music.
You can learn as much from ABBA as you can from The Beatles. They were absolute genius songwriters.”Speaking to NME in The Big Read earlier this year, Fender said how recent album ‘Seventeen Going Under’ is “a darker record, but it’s a celebration of surviving and coming out the other end.
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