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Our new website was launched in July. The Neo Now's second blog is at www.theneonow.com. See our other articles in this series to learn insights into the songs on our debut album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'.
New website section - The Neo Now Social Media Feeds. One location for all social media updates from The Neo Now. We're moved to share with you insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?
First up is a grooving song called 'Fly'. It's seriously one of our favourites on the album – many a summer evening we danced to it full bore on A-list repeat rotation in our water-fountain mood-lit sun room at Gypsy Hill studios. Our fans are telling us that off the album they love 'Cab Ride' and 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite' but we do love, love, love 'Fly'. The image that comes to our minds – in prepping for the video clip – is of a guy surfing on his own coffin, it's like he's in between worlds, getting ready to return to the sky. To fly like dream flying, like the way he flew through his life, with a sense of freedom and lightness and love but with a driving sense of commitment to doing what was the right thing to do throughout his whole life – he never walked away from his duty, even if at times that duty was experienced as a burden. But the burden of leaving loved ones behind haunts his departure from this world. The song's key message is 'it's all about how they remember you'. And there at his funeral are all the people who loved him, who were influenced by his strong values and who live on with that same commitment. We fly. People have asked us what the term 'rainbow coloured dynamite' means and what the song is about exactly. It is the title of the debut album of The Neo Now - 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'.
Quite simply, Rainbow Coloured Dynamite is a love song. It's like the explosion in your heart when you are with the one you love, when you kiss the one you love, it's like dynamite. We see the world in full spectrum colour – in all its glory of fiery red through to blue hues and vivid crystalline white light. Love in the fullest depth of colour, it's living life vivaciously, in celebration of love. That's what Rainbow Coloured Dynamite is all about. Pure passionate love. Sad song say so much. Continuing our series in which we're sharing
insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from? Our next feature song is: 'Taken Away' - track 10 on the album. The real life inspiration for this song was the life of a young girl, a long time ago, who gave birth out of wedlock to twin baby boys. When she was showing she had been whisked off to some distant place and when she came back life went on as normal. The babies were taken away. As was the way in those days. That dear young girl went on to have her own family and carried on her life, loving her family to her fullest capacity and giving, giving, giving. Not even her husband knew of her past. Her husband has passed and the family secret is out. In life, sometimes things are taken away from us. "Around about Christmas time or on your birthday, I just close my eyes and I want to say..." What do you say when you reunite with your very own baby after 30 years? One baby – now a grown man - was a spark of joy and his brother still doesn't want to meet their mother, not yet. In the real life story, one of the boys returned and there is joy in the family over that fact. Continuing our series in which we're sharing insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?
Our next feature song is: 'Fourth of July' - track 6 on the Rainbow Coloured Dynamite album. Have you ever met someone who is a living motivation in everything they do? All you have to do is get one look at them to know they have a fire in their belly to do something in this world. What's worth doing is worth doing well. Or to the best of our abilities and resources we are given at any one point. We play to the hand we are dealt with in this world. The edge in the game is what goes on between your ears: your positive thinking; your ignoring what is and focusing on what can be; your having experienced enough contrast to finally know what you truly want and take steady steps every day to get there. The motivation in life is an inner thing. What if you could bottle it? What if you could capture it in a photo? Once you meet someone like that you wonder how anyone could ever live a life that is without motivation. You wonder why people stay in the places they've found themselves in when the world they've created needs a shake up. And the only person to make that happen is you. How much same old, same old can you bear? How sick and tired of things do you need to be before you'll get motivated to change? Change is the only constant in life, you're either on the bus or you're left at the bus stop. What can you do today to get a rocket in your pocket? Open your heart and what do you see, always a victim of your mentality. The Fourth of July was the first video release for The Neo Now – it was fun to make and hey we did the best we could with the resources we had at the time. It's a catchy song people tell us. We released the video on...yes, the Fourth of July in 2016. We didn't promote it a great deal and found out that we knew a couple of hundred people, nice feedback from everyone, so encouraging, thank-you thank-you. Still waiting for Hobart FM to play that one (hint, hint Craig) – we're have great radio play with that wonderfully supportive station. Continuing our series in which we're sharing insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?
Our next feature song is: 'Will I Ever Know?' - track 9 on the album. This is a pure pining-for-love song. It's a slow rhythmical tune featuring a whimsical flute and rolling acoustic guitar. The song is about finding true love. The singer reflects on what it feels like to be in love and asks that simple question: will I ever know? Will it be my turn one day? Am I one to love and be loved in return? Only time will tell. We're sharing insights from the songs on our new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from?
Our next beautiful song to shine a spotlight on: 'I Don't Belong Here'. Straight up, this is a political anti-war song: “To your wars I do not concur”. Or moreover, 'I Don't Belong Here' is a pro-love song. The singer, our John, calls out, frustrated: ”Can we share all the love that we feel?” In this story, the singer has observed the anguish of a young girl caught up in a war – it could be Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Korea, China... It doesn't matter where – there are so many conflicts these days, take your pick. Yet from these wars it is the innocent who suffer. We as a Western society have become so desensitised to war, it's an accepted factor of life these days. But it's not much of a leap that we could all become that little girl one day. John sings: “We're protected but now the line's blurred because I could be her”. What The Neo Now is saying in this song is that these wars are waged in the name of protecting people but there has been an undeniable cost in terms of human rights, of freedom. The Neo Now says that the lines of 'protection' in the name of war have blurred into institutionalised 'control' mechanisms. You might not need to exercise your freedoms right now but come a time when you want to, indeed, need to, you might find that they've have been taken away without you having even noticed. There have been some big changes to laws worldwide in recent times, mostly met by silence on behalf of the populace. Is it because the majority are so distracted by the entertainment and ego-drama that is presented as the 'way we do things around there' these days? Let's focus on peace and sharing the love that we feel. What you focus on, grows. Is anybody listening? Who is your pride and joy?
We're sharing insights from the songs on The Neo Now's new album 'Rainbow Coloured Dynamite'. What are the songs about? Where did the songs come from? Next up: 'Pride and Joy' This is a confronting heart-wrenching solemn song about the generational impacts of family violence and more specifically, the role of a Father in a family. It's not something that people often sing about, we know! The world seems a little fatherless at times. We heard a statistic about who visits women in jail and it was shown that fathers are very rare visitors. Where are the fathers? Every 15th May is the International Day of the Family, and in Australia, White Ribbon Day brings awareness to violence of men against women. We recently heard the testimonies of a men's transformations program that runs in our community and can't help but wonder if there's violence at the heart of all their stories. And we wonder if the source of that violence is the heart-break experienced by men who are put in harms' way in the first place? Our men need a voice, they need a chance to heal, they need to know they are valuable and loved. That violence gets turns inward on yourself and outwards on others. And it rolls like a dirty fiery sandstorm across generations upon generations. Where does it stop? That's the point we get to in 'Pride and Joy'. The father in the song-story makes a different choice, a more conscious choice of courage and honesty. Honesty to say 'hey, I'm hurting' and the courage to do break the generational pattern. We're not saying this experience is everywhere, we're telling one little story in the story of all violence. |
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