Tim: Another from the inbox, and apparently Thomas lied all the time when he was young and had emotional weirdness, and he now feels a bit guilty. This song, whose title translates as ‘Hit Me Hard In The Face’ is about that.
Tom: Strong title.
Tom: Well, there’s a lot of clapping there. The video is, sadly, terrible: it looks like someone amateur lipsyncing along to a professional’s track. There’s a reason most music videos are filmed either in fast or slow motion, or at least with some actual tech skills.
Mind you, the fact I’m calling it “professional” does speak well for the track.
Tim: The main repeating lyric in the chorus is an extended version of the title, and is “Hit me hard on the face so I can feel that I’m alive./Shoot me here and now, because now I can die.” Basically it’s a song about wanting to feel something, to the extent that it says “I just want to feel something” three times, and wants to pulled over a gravel path. (And also, yes, you can hear the English line “the lion sleeps tonight”.)
Tom: Hmm. I quite like that, as a theme.
Tim: Something of a downer, you might say, but I think you’d be wrong because actually I think it’s a great track.
Tom: Agreed: that chorus is really rather nice.
Tim: The hand claps and instrumental backing of it actually make it seem a very happy track, which I’ve just listened to four times in a row, and the only thing that annoys me about it is the 22 seconds of silence at the beginning of this video because I have to wait each time. Aside from that, it’s all great.