"trying to make them sounds quite catchy and kind of inviting you in, but then having reasonably dark lyrics. Some of them are kind of just pop songs but they hide their innards quite well."
"So I was thinking, okay, how do I make these songs Heavenly without... well, without being that person now that I'm older? I was thinking about the issues I was concerned about back then and whether they'd actually changed. Around that time, our daughters were telling us about these YouTubers and their kind of misbehavior, basically. And I was thinking, oh - it's all the same. But what was interesting, and I guess this is a direct result of riot grrrl and things like that - being part of what made women more willing to speak up - is that the reason we know about the bad behavior of those YouTubers is that women spoke up in a way that, I think, when we were first starting out in music, they wouldn't have done."
Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey release Highway to Heavenly, their first album in 30 years. The music continues a throughline from Talulah Gosh, Marine Research and The Tender Trap, blending catchy, melodic pop with darker lyrical content. The opening track "Scene Stealing" updates the band's 1990s lyrical perspective to reflect aging and contemporary concerns. Observations about daughters' interactions with misbehaving YouTubers informed the songwriting, illustrating that similar issues persist while women now speak up more, an outcome linked in part to riot grrrl influences. The "Scene Stealing" video features Amelia and Rob's daughter and friends, and a Spanish version is available.
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