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Antillectual – „I Wrote This Song“ Redfield Records, Bird Attack Records, Waterslide Records, Fusa Records – A BlankTV World Premiere!
Artist city, country: NIjmegen, The Netherlands
Artist Biography: Antillectual from Nijmegen, the Netherlands plays a socially conscious, energetic blend of music. Creating their own unique blend of stolen riffs and borrowed song titles, while
carrying the torch for European punk rock beyond their own country and continent.
Music
You could describe Antillectual’s music as melodic, intelligent and urgent; like Rise Against and
Bad Religion, influenced by ‘90’s skate punk to ‘00’s emo and ‘10’s orgcore.
History
In 2005 Antillectual started releasing albums and touring. Ever since, the band has perfected the
romantic idea of being a dedicated touring band playing their energetic live show all over the world,
probably over a thousand times.
ENGAGE!
Living in a world that is coping with conflicts and crises it is time to engage! Critical times call for
critical music.
On full length album ENGAGE! Antillectual has taken a complete new approach to creating and
perfecting their sound. Not only does the band have the best line-up to date, for the (pre)production
of the new album the band created an all-star team covering the loud music area from left to right,
from poppy to obscure. Songs are more fine-tuned than before; even more thought and effort is
being put in. Of course there is still that typical Antillectual flavor.
About The Video: I Wrote This Song is the second single before the release of ENGAGE!. It’s one of the poppiest songs on the album. The video was shot at De Kube in Nijmegen, directed and edited by Maurice Swinkels of Younique Film
Director Name: Maurice Swinkels
Director Link: http://www.youniquefilm.com/
Artist Website: http://www.antillectual.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/antillectual
Twitter: https://twitter.com/antillectual/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/antillectual
LastFM: http://www.last.fm/music/Antillectual
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/antillectual
ReverbNation: https://www.reverbnation.com/antillectual
BandCamp: https://antillectual.bandcamp.com
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/antillectual
PureVolume: http://www.purevolume.com/antillectual
Other Link: https://www.instagram.com/antillectual/
Label Name: Redfield Records, Bird Attack Records, Waterslide Records, Fusa Records
Label Website: http://www.redfield-records.com/
Song Lyrics: Nobody ever accused me of having the urge to be a romantic
Nobody ever accused me of anything close to being nostalgic
All I ever mean to be is purely optimistic
But I almost can’t recall when we were synergetic
‘Cause lately you only contribute hate
About what others contribute and create
All I want is to spread the hope
Negativity, I can’t cope
All I want is to prove you wrong
But instead I wrote this song
It’s that you’re doing exactly what you’re blaming others, they’re of no avail
In fact the worst part of this is you’re changing me into what shouldn’t prevail
Your pessimism infects me, transposes me into that sad minor scale
And I almost tend to what I can’t stand in detail
This might seem a very personal song. And it is, but not only that. External negativity can bring you down and take away your ambition, pro-activity and energy. But this song is just as much about cynicism on a societal level; about groups of people who are being talked down for being “gutmenschen”; about having the intention to do well for others and engaging in the world around them; about people deciding to take a different path in their life, which might not be the most trodden path.
Maybe jealousy is the source of that negativity. A lot of the criticism is hypocritical, pointed at behavior that the “haters” manifest or manifested themselves in the past.
Sometimes it’s hard to fight those negative urges, especially in reaction to other people’s negativity. It’s easier to give in to them and continue the downward spiral than to turn it around into something positive. But this song was an effort to do so, and for this instance it worked.
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