The legendary hit “Another love” is the creation of the British singer, musician and composer Tom Odell. The singer has always been distinguished by high-quality and romantic music. Another love was first featured on his debut extended play Songs from Another Love in 2012. The video clip for the song was posted on YouTube on November 5, 2012 and has collected more than 540 million views so far! The clip is four minutes and eight seconds long. On it, the singer sits in front of the camera in an armchair, and the girl tries to attract his attention, making a mess along the way. The mess probably symbolizes quarrels. The plot ends with the girl leaving the boy. The video starred actress Sarah Navratil.
Nominations and achievements
The song is from the album “Long Way Down”, released in 2013. In 2014, she received two World Music Award nominations for Best World Song and a World Music Award for Best Video. It also charted in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands and was Odell’s top ten hit in the UK.
Plot and meaning
Although the song was released 10 years ago, it remains in the top to this day. The name translates as “Another Love”, so we can assume that the song is about this wonderful feeling. In the center of the plot of the work is the suffering of a young man from love for his object of sighing, as well as the fear of being rejected. He seems to be obsessed with this love and can beat for it and be “fu**ing” rude. The hero is afraid to take the first step, afraid to completely plunge headlong into this love. The line “It’s just that I’m tired of sharing my nights with others” clearly alludes to his relationship with another, which he began with the hope of forgetting his true love, but could not. There are a lot of repeating lines in the song about tears, as an indicator of the most real and lyrical feelings. If people are inspired by love, soar in the sky from an overabundance of feelings, then our hero cries,
Although “Another love” has a sad sounding melody, it even teaches us something. Never be afraid to take the first step towards your happiness. If it doesn’t work out, it means “not yours”, and if it works out, you will be the happiest person on Earth. In dreams of ideal happiness and love, we lose reality, in which we also lose a chance. Then it remains for us to “shed tears”, like the hero of everyone’s favorite song. No bright future – only torment from unfulfilled dreams.
How did the song become the unofficial anthem of Ukraine?
As we mentioned above, “Another love” has been popular for all its 10 years, but recently the explosive popularity of the song has been brought by the TikTok music platform .. Where without it? Absolutely any song can go viral thanks to TikTok. Users began uploading videos to this song from the beginning of the war in Ukraine, editing fragments of their peaceful life before the war under it. And thus, the song “Another love” became the unofficial anthem of Ukraine in social networks.
Tom Odell himself noted on TikTok that he was very flattered that so many Ukrainians use the song for their videos: “Long live Ukraine! I must come and we must sing it together.” In addition, under the video clip on YouTube, the musician posted a link to a site where you can make donations to raise funds for the Ukrainian crisis. In fact, Tom dedicated his creation to Ukraine and opposed the bloody war.
“The Vampire Diaries”
The song is also the anthem for Damon and Elena from The CW series The Vampire Diaries. It was used in a romantic scene of a couple kissing in the rain in the Season 6 episode “Do You Remember the First Time?”. The couple’s fans adore their chemistry and dream of the same crazy love. In all social networks, young people mount the so-called “edits” – beautiful, aesthetic videos of the emotional moments of the main characters and, mainly, to their song.
Commentary by Tom Odell on ” Another love “
Tom Odell comments on the song: “Another Love” is confusing because it’s not a traditional love song. For me, this song is about trying to be with someone else with all your heart when you really want to be. The song was written to talk to a girl that I really wanted to be with and I was trying to figure out why I couldn’t be with her.” It turns out that the song is also sincere, since it was really written about what happened in the life of the singer. And everything sincere, as a rule, hits the listeners right in the heart and becomes masterpieces.
Criticism
But it was not without criticism. Lewis Corner, writing for British entertainment, television and film website Digital Spy, stated that the song is “a mourning for its most haunting beauty”.
Adaptations
In 2016, the song was adapted by a Hungarian alternative rock band with great success and became a number one hit in the Petőfi Rádió top 30 for about two weeks. On February 2, a music video was released on YouTube.
On July 15, 2022, the song “Insha Love” was released on YouTube – a translation of the song “Another love” into Ukrainian. For almost 3 months, the video has gained 3.4 million views! For example, let’s see how singer ENLEO translated the first verse of the song:
Double bi walk us without people
It’s so cold here and I don’t know where
I’m snooping my ticket at your window
That stench does not grow, like spring
I want to kiss, so that everything will be okay
I’m so tired of other nights
I choke and sing, and sing
Those tears are already shed.
In general, looking at the general excitement for the song, we can safely say that this is one of the masterpieces in a number of songs by Michael Jackson! Dynamic music, words touching the soul – the recipe for the perfect song.
