Mad World-Tears For Fears

Описание: Mad World" is a 1982 song by British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas as Opiates", appeared on the band's debut LP The Hurting (1983). This single was also the band's first international success, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982–83. In the UK it was the 12th best-selling single of 1982.

“Curt and I had been in a band, a five-piece, sort of mod powerpop act called Graduate, and I was also the principal songwriter for that. All the songs were written on guitar and it was an almost desperate attempt on our part to become current! We were playing catch up with the trend, because the real roots of Graduate were me and John Baker, playing Simon and Garfunkel songs in a hairdressing salon on a Saturday. So we did this rapid reinvention, which was really not very credible. We were good enough to get a record contract, we were only 18 and we had a bit of radio play, and I had my first publishing cheque. I was literally on the dole and came from a very poor background, so £3000 turned up in the post and I was like, ‘Woah!’
“But Graduate was short-lived. We did one tour, I think, in Germany. It took two weeks. We were in two Sherpa vans, lugging around our own equipment, and the whole experience broke us. Curt and I weren’t quite the same as the other three guys in Graduate because we came from council estates and broken homes. So when we split and formed Tears For Fears, the trend had shifted tremendously from mod and ska – which I absolutely loved – to electronica. So you had Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, OMD, Soft Cell… All of a sudden, the duo was in demand – two guys and a tape recorder, or what we used to call ourselves: two poofs and a synth!

“But I carried on writing songs on the guitar, essentially. So even, for instance, Mad World… I think what happened to me was I was spending a lot of time on my own – with my girlfriend at the time, Caroline, who later became my wife. We were living above a pizza place on Barton Street, near the Theatre Royal in Bath, I was looking out of the window and seeing these people go on their merry way to work and the whole rat race thing. Being an adolescent who’d never had any real responsibility other than at school, I was critical of [all that] so I wrote Mad World. A song came on the radio, it was Girls On Film by Duran Duran, and it had this rhythm that I stole – not that theirs was original!

“I would describe what I was doing as ‘channelling’. You feel very confident in the rhythm because it’s a rhythm from a song you love, so you immerse yourself in the rhythm and then you allow these things to come out of the ether and come into your brain.

“When I wrote Mad World it sounded pretty bad, to be honest with you. I couldn’t sing it very well, because my voice is designed for acrobatics and drama, enunciation and doing crazy things, and shooting up into falsetto. So I wasn’t sure about the song at all.”

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