![]() ![]() We took a song that some other guys wrote and we’re trying to use it as a vessel. God has promised us that there is a place without all this craziness, and that’s Heaven. We’re not supposed to question God, although that’s our human nature. With the theme of Innocence & Instinct, we just kept thinking of how we’re dealing with all these things around us-the recession, the earthquake in Haiti, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico-does an “Ordinary World” exist? Even for believers, we ask God to show Himself to us, and reveal His ways. What’s cool about the song, and although it may not be a blatant Christian message, you can interpret the song from your own perspective. What's the take-away message for listeners regarding the song? Proverbs 13:10: By pride comes nothing but strife, But with the well-advised is wisdom. Something we also wanted to do with this album was challenge ourselves musically and this song really did that for us.ĭo you have a life verse or any Bible verses you think goes with the song? It perfectly fit the theme of the record. We ended up picking this song, originally recorded by Duran Duran. Something we were talking about in the studio is that we didn’t know what song we wanted to cover, and originally we were thinking about a Nine Inch Nails song. Please tell me about the background in recording the song "Ordinary World." I got the great opportunity to interview all four band members in person at the Creation Northeast festival about their current single, “Ordinary World.” Here is what the band shared with me about the song. Lyrically, the song just fits the overall theme of Innocence & Instinct by its longing for a return to something more familiar, more secure, more ordinary.” “Technically it’s a difficult song that challenges the pop formula. ![]() “There’s just a dynamic and depth musically in ‘Ordinary World’ that is not present in most pop songs,” explains guitar player Anthony Armstrong. My favorite song on Innocence & Instinct is RED’s excellent cover of “Ordinary World.” Accented heavily by piano and strings, this Duran Duran cover takes a decidedly RED direction, featuring a twisted fusion of dreamy orchestration and loud six-string distortion. ![]() These extreme feelings, these paradoxes, coexist all the time.” There are moments that switch between never feeling so close to someone to never feeling so abandoned, but that's part of the human experience. “The album examines the fight between our childlike innocence and the instinctive side that makes us do things we shouldn’t. “ Innocence & Instinct is about the duality of man,” explains guitarist Jasen Rauch. A lifetime is spent in this internal tug-of-war between who we really are and who we hope to be. Finding the sonic sweet spot where epic and primal converge, Innocence & Instinct features animated dynamics that super-charge its innocence vs. From the literary spark of Dante's Inferno to the bloody aftermath of a 75-mph highway crash, RED absorbed a flood of ideas and emotions that empowered the band to create next generation rock songs. Still riding the momentum of its huge-selling Grammy-nominated debut album, End of Silence, RED returned with Innocence & Instinct, a provocative new album forged in a perfect storm of inspiration and catastrophe. ![]()
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