Stream: Wallows, ‘OK’
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“Can we get up and try to feel OK again?” Wallows ask in their new single “OK.”
These days, of course, that remains to be seen. The L.A. trio, who one year ago released their debut album, “Nothing Happens,” move into pop territory on the new single, produced by two-time Grammy winner John Hill with co-production from Sachi DiSerafino and John DeBold.
Wallows — Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole Preston — conceived “OK” as a relationship song, but considering world events it can be read in a larger sense. “‘OK’ is a song about insecurities in a relationship; having a hard time accepting something that feels ‘too good to be true,’ but overall learning to embrace it and accept the love you’re receiving and focusing on returning it,” the band says. “Now, given the state of the world and the health crisis we happen to be in at the time of the song’s release, we feel like the main line/hook of the song, ‘Can we get up and try to feel okay again?,’ sort of takes on a new meaning/purpose itself for people at this moment in time. The thought that no matter where we are or how alone/lost we feel right now, we can get up again and try to feel OK. We’re in it together.”
Except for the compulsion to utilize gimmicky vocoding, we’re right there with you.
||| Watch: The video for “OK”
||| Stream: “OK”
||| Previously: Live at the Fonda; “Scrawny”
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