Rising pop-punk band Spinning releases their newest single, “Make Up,” their third single in anticipation of their new album Drug.
While relating to the idea of substance use and the negative effects that may ensue as the surface-level theme of their upcoming project, this new single relies on the intoxicating nature of a relationship.
This track blends an early 2000s pop punk sound with blink-182 vocals and electric guitars paired with Simple Plan-esque melodies. With a youthful vocal and sing-songy sway between syllables, this track emulates the essence of early-aughts teen movies drenched in nostalgia. The band even integrates a distorted guitar solo to close off the track.
Despite this upbeat sound, in true pop punk fashion, the lyrics reflect deeper or more calamitous internal experiences, even opening on, “I feel defeated.” The narrator grapples with a longing for someone, so much so that they fantasize about “want[ing] to wake up in [her] makeup.” Fundamentally, he yearns to be loved, singing, “I know I wanna feel needed / Someone to love and someone to know.”
He compares this infatuation to a high he cannot stop chasing, a drug he cannot stop himself from going back to: “I wanna take up a new drug / I wanna do it everyday.” This love becomes so intoxicating that he begins to feel like he is “in way too deep,” and feeling “so empty,” signifying the destructive tether to a substance, or in this case, a loved one, that completely ends up destroying one’s sense of normalcy and taking over one’s mind.
Inevitably, “Make Up” is a track that cleverly ties the themes of drugs, which will be explored in their upcoming project, to love, while also conveying these emotions through a nostalgic vessel, allowing for the discongruence between destructive tendencies along with the object of one’s desires and the upbeat nature of their sound.
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