The Feeling - 'Rose'
You know how some pop people say that they want their debut album to be like their greatest hits? Like you could pick any song off the CD and release it as a single and it would be great? Well, it's clear this lot have been taking that idea a bit too literally, as this is now the FIFTH song to be taken off 'Twelve Stops And ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ'. Credit your fans with some imagination on the singles thing, willya boys? We can always PRETEND it came out...
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It's slightly galling, then, to report that 'Rose' completely deserves to be heard by a wider audience. And by wider, I mean everyone who has ears, or ability to enjoy music in any way.
Oh sure, on the surface it's just a silly little song about why Dan Gillespie Sells' favourite wine is neither the white one, or the red one, but the pink one with the raffia base. But the band have invested so much passion and longing into the arrangement - all whispery moans, soft pounding drums and sensuous, rippling...sorry, forgot where I was for a second there...er...rippling STUFF - that you have to assume there's more to it than just musical product placement.
Some lyric-experts have cross-referenced between lines like "I think pink is my colour" and the fact that Dan is gay and deduced that this is also one of those clever metaphorical songs which claims to be about one thing when really it's about something else. Certainly it's rare that someone would be so relieved at FINALLY finding a drink they like that they'd would want to write a song like this about it.
But that's not to say 'Rose' is just for people who like same-sex-snogging, or pink wine, come to that. It's for anyone who ever drew a line in the sand, daring people to cross, and said "this is who I am, DEAL WITH IT!", and that's, what, ALL of us? Thought so.
Released: February 12th
(Fraser McAlpine)
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