Fast Romantics - "Top of the Mountain" (Official Video)

Описание: Taken from the 2020 Album "Pick It Up" -- Stream or buy it now: https://ffm.to/pickitup
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Song ©2020 Fast Romantics, under exclusive license to Postwar Records.

CREDITS

Directed by ............... Matthew Angus
Produced by ............... Brendan McCarney
Filmed by ............... Matthew Angus and Simeon Ross
Location Scouting ............... Brendan McCarney
Edited and Coloured by ............... Matthew Angus

Featuring the members of Fast Romantics, in order of appearance:

Kirty
Matthew Angus
Kevin Black
Nick McKinlay
Jeffrey Lewis
Lisa Lorenz

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From Singer-Songwriter Matthew Angus on the themes in the song:

So much of this album is about my experiences trying to balance these two powerful forces inside of me that seem to be in opposition: ambition and self-doubt.

I am marked by this obnoxious, uncontrollable ambitious streak. I want to do everything, and be the best I can be at it. I throw myself into my work, powered by some mysterious force that has no basis in rationality. I suffer from an unassailable need to create, connect, explore.

And yet in the midst of that unstoppable force, it is greeted every time with what seems like an unbeatable enemy. The belief that it’s all pointless, hopeless, that what I’m doing won’t make a difference to anyone. That everybody’s gonna die, including me, so what’s the point?

How do these two creatures survive inside of me at once?

Top of the Mountain was a repeating chorus that has been in my head for years. “We’re going to the top of the mountain. We’re going to the top of the mountain. We’re going to the top of the mountain. Then we come back down.” Is it pointless? Or is it amazing?

I finally showed this phrase to the human that knows me best -- Kirty -- and together we wrote verses that finally fleshed out the song and what it meant.

This one’s about that unstoppable engine in all of us that pushes us forward, to try to make things, to progress, to be better, only to turn around and die, and eventually be forgotten. There aren’t many answers in here, and like so many of the songs on this album, this is more of a feeling than a thought. But some part of the way this turned out makes me feel like all of this climbing is worth something. But it’s still a mystery to me as to what’s at the top.