Música y videos - Giving Up On Love (Slow Club)

Los chicos de Slow Club nunca han sido muy amigos de complicarse la vida. Si puedes hacer las cosas sencillas, ¿para qué liarlas? Y lo cierto es que sus ideas minimalistas funcionan.

En Beginners le pidieron a Daniel Radcliffe que les echara una mano. Así que el bueno de Daniel se puso una camisa del Sepu y grabó el video en una sola toma. El resultado es hipnótico y un tanto inquietante.

Años antes, con su primer álbum, Charles Watson y Rebecca Taylor ya habían grabado un videoclip en una sola toma. Y con el mismo toque. En este caso, la canción duraba lo que dura una vuelta en la noria más melancólica del mundo. Lo mejor para ambientar una historia de desamor con ritmo.

We’ve been over and over

This thing we call love

And I’ve been thinking about

What my friends would say

If I were to give it up.

Cause I’ve been tired and hopeful (I’ve been hurting inside)

For far too long now (too long now)

So I’m giving it up, giving up, giving up on love

Giving up on love.

Hold back, you’ve got me all wrong

And now it’s like it’s over before it’s even begun

You need to sit back and take it as a test

If you’d given me straight answers I would never have had to guess.

And it was obvious from the start

We were the only ones with hearts

And you pull mine apart

With the things that you do.

The house was falling from the cliffs

It is only glass and brick

If you throw enough it sticks

I learnt that before

It’s a battle not a war.

Música y videos - Beginners (Slow Club)

Cuando un actor interpreta a un personaje famoso, siempre es difícil salir de la piel prestada y encontrar nuevas almas postizas. En el caso de Daniel Radcliffe no será porque el chaval no lo intenta. Y con ganas.

Primero se dedicó al teatro. Luego ha hecho películas muy alejadas del género que le vio nacer. Y hace poco ha estrenado una pequeña serie de televisión basada en los relatos de Mikhail Bulgakov. Incluso les echó una mano el año pasado a los chicos de Slow Club con este video. E hizo un trabajo magnífico poniéndole cara a una canción triste y melancólica. Para momentos de bajón (sobre todo llevando esa camisa).

And in a moment it all came to this

The time it took for your muscles to grow and grip

Of all the things I’ve heard

Why’d it have to be these words?

And in a second I’ll be gone and you won’t have to think

I got enough to keep me going, keep me from the brink

As your bones grew

Why did you become you?

Become you?

Oh, I’ve told you, oh, to be older

You know I’m right

I’m right

You know these moments, they take years to pass

You gotta be coping, gotta be hoping the hands fly by fast

You call this true

Why did you become you?

Become you?

See the sun rise now, this has to end

Don’t let it be the one to walk us home again

And you know you haven’t got all the answers

If you did you would be screaming them out

And I know I haven’t got all the answers,

If I did I would be screaming them out, screaming them out

And in a moment it all came to this

The greatest book you ever read came from my favorites list

Of all the things to lose,

it’s you I choose.

Oh, I told you, oh, to be older,

You know I’m right

I’m right

Keep breathing, keep breathing

Find a scheme you believe in