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"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a new wave and synth-pop song with lyrics that detail the desire humans have for control and power and centre on themes of corruption. An international success, the song peaked at number two in Ireland, Australia, and the United Kingdom and at number one in Canada, New Zealand, and on both the US Billboard ...
This song has appeared in a commercial for Sears, featuring rapper LL Cool J, actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical, and Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. World has also been used by Autism Speaks, and several other group supporters, as a theme to promote awareness for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The song ...
Songs from the Big Chair is the second studio album by the English band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 1985 by Mercury Records, distributed by Phonogram Inc. A follow-up to the band's successful debut album, The Hurting (1983), Songs from the Big Chair was a significant departure from that album's dark, introspective synth-pop, featuring a more mainstream, guitar-based pop rock sound ...
"Head over Heels" is a song recorded by British band Tears for Fears for their second studio album Songs from the Big Chair (1985). The song was released by Mercury Records, as the album's fourth single on 14 June in the UK. [3] It was the band's tenth single release in the United Kingdom and eighth top 40 hit in the region, peaking at number 12.
Global chart-toppers whose songs defy time and place, Tears for Fears’ music is inarguably more prevalent now than it was in 1985 when their sophomore album, Songs From the Big Chair spent five ...
The song incorporates a lyric scheme where each verse forms the acrostic "F.E.A.R." (for example, "For each a road" and "Fallen empires are ruling").In an interview with Clash magazine, Brown said that a main influence for "F.E.A.R." was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which preached the study of etymology, so that one could have "control over people through the use of language."
"Woman in Chains" is a song by English band Tears for Fears, released as the second single from their third studio album, The Seeds of Love (1989). It has been described as a " feminist anthem ". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was an international success, reaching the top 40 in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France ...
The whole song seems to rebuke society — any era, 1830s or now. She prefers “lunar valleys in my mind/ When they found a better planet/ Only the gentle survived,”she sings. She also almost ...