Paul McCartney – Hope For The Future

Hoffentlich kommt die Single noch 2014.

One Track Mind: Paul McCartney, “Hope” from Destiny (2014)

It’s funny. This is exactly the kind of instantly recognizable epic moment that Paul McCartney’s nervy, crisply modern New stayed away from — a bow-on-it song that typically would find its place toward the end of one of his older solo albums.

Think the “Power Cut” medley to close out 1973’s Red Rose Speedway. “Treat Her Gently/Lonely Old People” from 1975’s Venus and Mars. “Through Our Love,” from 1983’s Pipes of Peace. “C’mon People” from 1993’s Off the Ground. “Beautiful Night” from 1997’s Flaming Pie.

Same here. The wholly expected stringed army is in place for “Hope,” and McCartney is making impossible promises about gleaming days ahead. In the end, it’s McCartney being, well, McCartney.

Occasionally, in the past, he would cut against this stereotype by tacking on some kind of goof to follow these anthemic pieces of fluff — a snippet of a soap-opera theme on Venus and Mars, a grinding found object on Off the Ground, the lilting “Great Day” on Flaming Pie. But, more often, he would simply leave us with these unapologetically sincere, shamelessly corny moments.

And, really, who could blame him? It’s always been a part of McCartney, something that traces back to his vaudevillian youth — a cutesy, faux-ageless thing that, for his deepest fans, remains part of his charm.

And that brings us to “Destiny,” a song constructed for the first-person shoot-‘em-up video game Destiny with the express notion of reaching a new audience, the young person who may have heard of McCartney but only in the sense that Baby Boomers had heard of Bing Crosby. The comparison is sadly apropos, actually.

Instead of indulging in the New, McCartney went decidedly old. As the 120-piece orchestra swoons over the closing credits of Destiny, and as the very sincere former Beatle croons, you can’t help but wonder what that kid is thinking — the one was wasn’t born when Flaming Pie came out, much less Venus and Mars. You could easily see him comparing “Hope” to Bing. But he likely doesn’t know who Crosby is, either.
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’Hope For The Future‘ – New Single Release Details

Hope For The Future kommt am 8. Dezember

Tracklist:
1) ‚Hope For The Future (Main)‘
2) ‚Hope For The Future (Thrash)‘
3) ‚Hope For The Future (Beatsession Mix)‘
4) ‚Hope For The Future (Jaded Mix)‘
5) ‚Hope For The Future (Mirwais Mix)‘

Talking about the writing process Paul said:
“When you’re writing something like ‚Hope For The Future‘, which is custom made, it is like doing a portrait for someone. You have to use your imagination and work out what they need, what they’re going to want and then what you want to give them. Then you’ve got to combine those three things into something that you still think maintains integrity. So in the game you’re a Guardian of the last city on Earth so that suggested to me the ‘hope for the future’ idea and I went from there. Then I thought it is not just a game song, this will get played outside the game so it has got to be stand alone too, you can’t have references to aliens or people will think, ‘What’s he talking about?’ So it had to have its own stand alone meaning and integrity.”

Und was ist jetzt? Überall sehe ich Hope for the Future nur auf Vinyl und es kommt erst am 13. Januar. Solche Deppen.

Zum Song: Exakt der Schwulst, den das Cover verspricht. (Besonders peinlich: McCartneys Silhouette hinter der Erdkugel, im Glorienschein …)

Das Cover ist mir egal, und der Schwulst passt einfach zu Weihnachten.