It's New Year's Eve, and I would like to pick up the one song that I've missed on my blog, and also the one of songs we couldn't get enough of: "Use Somebody" by the moody, soul-searching rock band, Kings Of Leon. Fans (and bands such as Paramore) made cover after creative cover of this tune on YouTube. In the video for "Use Somebody," the Kings of Leon family mixes a sentimental rock tune with some candid tour footage with performance of their somewhat epic rock shows. It's a breakout hit for the boys from Tennessee.The U2-esque hit track "Use Somebody" is the fourth track and the second single from the band's fourth studio album "Only by the Night." The best 80s guitar-driven power ballad is a too-cool hipster's cry for comfort. "Use Somebody," which led to what drummer Nathan describes as a "surreal and drunken" trip to the podium to collect an award for "Record of the Year" from Ringo Starr. The single was a huge success in the U.S., where it topped multiple airplay formats, and won three awards at the 2010 Grammies. Frontman Caleb wrote this song on tour in Glasgow, and he credited the writing of the song to the City of Glasgow, and the audience at the SECC on that night. Caleb told the story of the song is about longing for somebody to have a cuddle with while feeling lonely on the road. He said on his band's website: "It's about being far from home."
The Followill boys, who take a wistful view of life on the road in this Sophie Muller-directed clip for "Use Somebody." The video cuts from a close-up of Caleb pouring his heart out to shots of the band playing for live audiences, practicing at rehearsal, hanging out shooting pool, and heating things up between Caleb and one lucky groupie lady (Caleb's model girlfriend Lily Aldridge). The video takes us backstage with the Followill boys and up close with Caleb, who looks like he's been up all night crying. There are brief makeout scenes too, and maybe the pro shot concert footage will convince you to leave the digicam at home if you see these guys live. The video definitely does the tune justice.
The brothers, Caleb, Nathan, Jared, and Matthew Followill continue to follow their own muse and refuse to play it safe is especially impressive coming as they are on the heels of Kings of Leon's most successful album to date, "Only By The Night," which catapulted the band into the mainstream. Any other band would feel pressure going into the studio, but Kings of Leon aren't like any other band. "The funny thing is that 'Only by the Night' was the first album we approached with the attitude of not trying to make a popular record," Nathan says. Truth be told, there isn't very much going on beneath the stadium rock bluster, but Kings of Leon are doing the stadium rock bluster so well at the moment that few are likely to care.
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