Tears For Fears: Last News

Gary Jules has shared a “very intimate” 20th anniversary version of ‘Mad World’ – listen to it below.The cover was first released in 2003 and now Jules has shared an anniversary version of the track which, according to a press release, “sets the perfect tone for the current state of the world and is as poignant this Christmas as ever.”In 2003, Jules recorded a cover of the song for the film Donnie Darko, with the original version of the song written by Tears for Fears.The song went on to become Christmas Number One in 2003 and remained at the top spot for three weeks.You can listen to the new version here:In a statement marking both the release and the announcement of new music from the musician that’s arriving in early 2024, Jules said: “There’s been such widespread loss these last years, so much illness and isolation, such violent and dramatic upheaval in the world and in people’s personal lives, including both my family and me.“I feel like stories and music, and specifically live music — people gathering together to hear stories and reflect — is key to healing humanity, allowing us to remember ourselves. It feels important for me as a performer and storyteller, to get back to my part of that remembering, healing.

Rihanna‘s ‘SOS’ has revealed a pattern on the song that’s gone unknown for nearly two decades – see what the pattern is below.In a recent interview with Behind the Wall, songwriter Evan ‘Kidd’ Bogart — who co-wrote the song’s lyrics alongside Edward Cobb and Jonathan Rotem — unveiled new information about the 2006 hit. Bogart wrote the entirety of the song’s second verse, which he now reveals is a tribute to 1980s song titles.Bogart said: “When I wrote it, I had no idea what I was doing.

Tears For Fears have shared a soothing new song from their forthcoming album ‘Songs For A Nervous Planet’.The track ‘Astronaut’ is the second to be lifted from the record which is out on October 25 after ‘The Girl That I Call Home’. You can listen to it below.“Emotionally it’s about this guy who doesn’t feel he belongs here and wants to be an astronaut floating out into space… a lot of people identify with the emotion of that song, that sense of alienation,” said the band’s Curt Smith in a statement.“Once we realised that we were going to end up doing more than just one new track for this album, Roland [Orzabal] sent me the original recording of ‘Astronaut’ and I had forgotten how good of a song it was as it gives you a sense of release,” Smith added.“It’s a horrible comparison but it’s the sorbet in between courses where you just can have a little breath and just float away.

Ride have spoken to NME about their defiant new album ‘Interplay’ and shared new single ‘Peace Sign’. Check it out below along with our interview with frontman Mark Gardener and guitarist Andy Bell.The Oxford shoegazers’ first record in five years is due for release on March 29 and marks a period of triumph over adversity for the band as they battled through both COVID and a messy legal battle.

Lil Baby has shared a new single titled ‘The World Is Yours To Take’, heavily sampling Tears For Fears’ 1985 classic ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’.The song is shaped around the lead melody of the Tears For Fears track – one of the Bath outfits most iconic – with Lil Baby rapping about ambition and personal triumph over it. In the first verse, he spits: “I’m by far one of the hardest workers / Real firm believer in “practice make perfect” / You can gather all the water, stay thirsty / Took a lot to get us here / We broke curses.”It comes as part of a collaboration between Lil Baby and American beer brand Budweiser, and was released as the latter’s official anthem for this year’s FIFA World Cup.

Placebo have shared a new cover of Tears For Fears’ ‘Shout’, giving the chart-topping track an industrial twist – scroll down the page to hear it now.The track follows the release of the band’s latest album ‘Never Let Me Go’, which arrived in March.On their version of ‘Shout’ Placebo add shadowy new layers to the original single, giving it a new industrial tinge without straying too far from the Bath band’s release.‘Shout’ was originally released in 1984 as the second single from Tears For Fears’ second album ‘Songs From The Big Chair’. It went on to become the band’s sixth Top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at Number Four, while it topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in 1985 nine months after it was first released.The song is the latest ‘80s song that Placebo have covered, following on from the likes of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Jackie’, The Smiths’ ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, Pixies’ ‘Where Is My Mind?’ and, infamously, Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’.The cover precedes the band’s upcoming UK and Ireland tour, which will kick off in Portsmouth on November 18 and run until December 8, when it concludes in Birmingham.

The Tonight Show… host Jimmy Fallon have covered Tears For Fears‘ hit ‘Head Over Heels’ – and turned it into a song about the weather.The pair performed their rendition as part of The Tonight Show‘s ‘First Drafts Of Rock’ segment, which typically sees Bacon join Fallon to play a classic song under the guise of it being an early draft of the song’s actual lyrics.On Wednesday night’s (August 3) episode, Bacon and Fallon performed their own version of Tears For Fears’ 1985 song, ‘Head Of Heels’, which is the second single from the British band’s second album ‘Songs From The Big Chair’.In the clip, which you can watch below, Bacon and Fallon appear in a hazy video accompanied by a backing band and wearing their hair in curls.Footloose actor and musician in his own right Bacon sings: “I wanted to be with you alone/ And talk about the weather/ There’s rain up in Seattle so if you’re going out/ You might need an umbrella.”Fallon sings on the second verse: “Got a degree in meteorology/ To talk about the weather/ According to the dew point the humidity’s up/ As the temperatures climb/ That’s just, just, just summertime.”The original song lyrics feature the opening lines: “I wanted to be with you alone/ And talk about the weather.”The two later sing in unison on the chorus: “For the weather you can call Tears for Fears/ We’ll check the radar if the skies will be clear/ Warm front’s coming, so the clouds disappear/ With a gentle breeze, 80 degrees let’s, let’s, look at the four-day forecast/ four days forecast for days,” [lyrics via Billboard].‘Head Over Heels’ spent a total of 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at Number Three in 1985.

Yard Act, Frank Turner and Tears For Fears have scored the biggest selling vinyl albums and singles so far in 2022 – check them out on NME first below.‘The Overload’ was the biggest selling vinyl album so far with 11,000 units sold since its release in February, according to the Official Charts Company.Yard Act’s debut album was closely followed by Tears For Fears’ first album in 17 years ‘The Tipping Point’, while Black Country New Road came in third with their second album ‘Ants From Up There’.Elsewhere, Fleetwood Mac’s classic album ‘Rumours’ went in at four, The Wombats‘ ‘Fix Yourself, Not The World’ finished fifth and Charli XCX came sixth with ‘Crash’.“It’s ace to have won music for at least one quarter of the year,” Yard Act said of their accolade. “Clearly it has made some form of connection with enough people, for this to happen which is the most important thing.”“We are incredibly grateful for that and will never forget that. To all our team and the whole crew at Island Records for believing in us, working so hard and chucking loads of money at it, thank.

Tears for Fears have shared a new single called ‘Break The Man’ – check it out below.The song is the third taste of the group’s first album in 17 years, ‘The Tipping Point’, which is due to arrive on February 25 via Concord Records. In October 2021, the duo – comprised of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith – released the record’s title track and last month, they released second single ‘No Small Thing’.‘Break The Man’ pays homage to women who fight against the patriarchy. “I feel that a lot of the problems we’ve been having as a country and even worldwide to a certain degree has come from male dominance,” Tears for Fears singer Curt Smith said of the single.“It’s a song about a woman who is strong enough to break the man.

Tears For Fears have shared a new single called ‘No Small Thing’ – check it out below.The song is the second taste of the group’s first album in 17 years, ‘The Tipping Point’, which is due to arrive on February 25, 2022 via Concord Records.

Tears For Fears‘ Roland Orzabal has discusses how he began writing songs for what would become the duo’s first new album in 17 years while caring for his late wife.Earlier this month, the band announced their return with details of new album ‘The Tipping Point’, their first since 2004’s ‘Everybody Loves A Happy Ending’.In a new interview with the Guardian about the reunion, Orzabal and bandmate Curt Smith discussed how they ended up writing new music after so long, and how Orzabal’s personal tragedy informed the music.The musician’s wife, Caroline, died in 2017, a decade after the menopause sent her into depression and alcohol misuse.

Kelly Clarkson has put her own spin on Tears For Fears’ hit ‘Mad World’, as part of The Kelly Clarkson Show.Backed by her band, Y’all, Clarkson covered the track for the ‘Kellyoke’ segment of her show’s March 26 episode.Where the original ‘Mad World’ is a synth-driven affair, Clarkson pares the song’s instrumentation back for her rendition, allowing her voice to take centre stage.Immersed in green and blue lights, the inaugural American Idol winner slows the original’s tempo down for a cover clocking in at just under two minutes.Watch it below:Clarkson isn’t the first American Idol alumnus to cover Tears For Fears’ 1982 track.