We're really into Spector's new single, which is about how all our #relationshipgoals are basically all centered around Orange Wednesdays and Groupon getaway breaks. It's a good treatise on the current fluctuating definition of a relationship, where commitment-phobic young people stay technically single throughout all the exciting, lusty opening parts of a new tryst and "going out" signifies the end of that thirsty ardour rather than the beginning.Earlier this year we spoke to singer Fred Macpherson about the song. He said:Most of our songs aren’t love songs, its more that talking about relationships is the medium for talking about now. So we are using relationships so that we can talk about the world. Not politically but more functionally. We’ve got a song called “Stay High” that’s about all the tropes people use to make their relationships work. “Where we’re going we don’t need roads, set menus or 2 for 1 codes”. It’s this sort of filtered version of romance that is ordained by corporations. I think that mixed with the internet, mixed with how much more we see of celebrity culture it’s a kind of slightly unsettling combination.There’s a reason people watch Romeo and Juliet and cry, because they know they will never experience anything as wonderful as that Shakespearean level of romance. I’m not saying love isn’t real, I think it's one of the only things that is really really real, it’s just a shame that it gets caught up in so many other little things on the way. There is a descending vanilla haze over everything. Now we have health goths instead of goths or normcore instead of squares, everything has to be acceptable to the extent that the unacceptable is no longer of interest because there is a filtered safe version of it.
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