Courtney released a total of six original songs during 2023-24, and starting this past October she started releasing (every few weeks) videos of herself and her (new) band performing the six songs live at Metropolis Studios in London. You've done reactions to a couple of those ("That Girl Don't Live Here" and "Call Me Back"). On Friday, Jan 24, she's doing the last of the six: "Monsters." This is all meant to give her fans something while we're waiting for her new album, coming out this spring.
The monsters are most certainly do represent her personality traits, and for each one of us, they will be different entities, but she has confirmed with others what I am about to write would describe the monsters that are shown on screen... The monsters that represent her near the end of the video, or, her personality traits are from left to right near the end of the video. 1. Girl with a soft toy: This is her anxiety, her shyness, her inner child, the tormented one. 2. The Clown: This is her goofinessm her silliness, her sense of humour. 3. Girl with a phone in her hand: Her social media addiction, looking for positive messages among the cyberbullies. 4. Herself 5. The Rocker: Her talent, both a gift and a curse. 6. The grey-haired entity: Her dark desires and depression. 7. Girl with glasses and books: Her studiousness, her nerdiness, her near Encyclopedic knowledge of rock singers and their styles and genres, and her work ethic (when she was being taught to sing, she was the only student that was told to work less, and when she was writing songs with Kevin Bowe, he often found her in the studio working to perfect the songs without being prompted). And you should take a look at the official video for Breakable, a personal favourite of mine.
The heart of the song comes at that moment you pointed out where it "changes tone": what had been a self-absorbed lament about personal demons suddenly becomes a call for human outreach: "Gotta hear each other when we're cryin' for help Gotta save each other if we're gonna save ourselves If you look inside we're all the same Everybody's tryna keep the monsters away." When an interviewer in 2023 asked her about the song, and asked whether she'd be willing to talk about what sort of monsters she had in her personal life, she said the song wasn't meant to be about herself specifically, it was really a recognition that everyone has monsters inside, and we all need to help each other deal with them.
Thanks for the reaction, SV!! Great guesses on the different Courtney's. Since she's talking about "monsters" in her head, assume these all symbolize different voices in her head pulling her in different directions. Some good, some bad. Look forward to your next reaction of CALL ME BACK, a goose-bump-inducing ballad . . . I love this live version more than the original because she shows off more of the gritty, raspy part of her voice which still gives me chills after all of these years - ruclips.net/video/X7M2oRgmwds/видео.html
Love your reactions! Guess what, just 13 minutes ago she posted the new Live from Metropolis studios version of Monsters with her band will be out Friday😃😈💀🤡👹👺👻🧛🧟 Allotta folks seem to wonder about the clown. First I show them this: Courtney Hadwin ㋡ Performs 'Clown' Emeli Sande INCREDIBLE!!! | 2016 EP-25 ruclips.net/video/H_8-khKyxVc/видео.htmlsi=FdHAyXEoUGFOSrNc The description on this video, posted over 6 years ago, of a performance 8 or 9 years old, could be a help interpreting this video, which is not that much older than a year. Fans that have followed her livestreams for about 7 years can tell you allot about her notorious sense of humour too🤪 Thank you for this, could say a lot more but it's morning maniac time👋😃
Courtney released a total of six original songs during 2023-24, and starting this past October she started releasing (every few weeks) videos of herself and her (new) band performing the six songs live at Metropolis Studios in London. You've done reactions to a couple of those ("That Girl Don't Live Here" and "Call Me Back"). On Friday, Jan 24, she's doing the last of the six: "Monsters." This is all meant to give her fans something while we're waiting for her new album, coming out this spring.
The monsters are most certainly do represent her personality traits, and for each one of us, they will be different entities, but she has confirmed with others what I am about to write would describe the monsters that are shown on screen...
The monsters that represent her near the end of the video, or, her personality traits are from left to right near the end of the video.
1. Girl with a soft toy: This is her anxiety, her shyness, her inner child, the tormented one.
2. The Clown: This is her goofinessm her silliness, her sense of humour.
3. Girl with a phone in her hand: Her social media addiction, looking for positive messages among the cyberbullies.
4. Herself
5. The Rocker: Her talent, both a gift and a curse.
6. The grey-haired entity: Her dark desires and depression.
7. Girl with glasses and books: Her studiousness, her nerdiness, her near Encyclopedic knowledge of rock singers and their styles and genres, and her work ethic (when she was being taught to sing, she was the only student that was told to work less, and when she was writing songs with Kevin Bowe, he often found her in the studio working to perfect the songs without being prompted).
And you should take a look at the official video for Breakable, a personal favourite of mine.
Wow that's amazing, thank you so much for sharing! She is incredible. I will get to work on Breakable!
The heart of the song comes at that moment you pointed out where it "changes tone": what had been a self-absorbed lament about personal demons suddenly becomes a call for human outreach:
"Gotta hear each other when we're cryin' for help
Gotta save each other if we're gonna save ourselves
If you look inside we're all the same
Everybody's tryna keep the monsters away."
When an interviewer in 2023 asked her about the song, and asked whether she'd be willing to talk about what sort of monsters she had in her personal life, she said the song wasn't meant to be about herself specifically, it was really a recognition that everyone has monsters inside, and we all need to help each other deal with them.
That's brilliant. Thank you so much!
The Tux suit is inspired by the cover of Michael Jackson's first independent album ' Off The Wall ' done before Thriller.
Oh nice! I really dig a suit on Courtney. Suits in general, I think.
The one with the stuffed animal must be about her love for the animals she has dogs cats even a pet mouse that would be my guess
I feel like you're right about that.
Thanks for the reaction, SV!! Great guesses on the different Courtney's. Since she's talking about "monsters" in her head, assume these all symbolize different voices in her head pulling her in different directions. Some good, some bad.
Look forward to your next reaction of CALL ME BACK, a goose-bump-inducing ballad . . . I love this live version more than the original because she shows off more of the gritty, raspy part of her voice which still gives me chills after all of these years - ruclips.net/video/X7M2oRgmwds/видео.html
Love your reactions! Guess what, just 13 minutes ago she posted the new Live from Metropolis studios version of Monsters with her band will be out Friday😃😈💀🤡👹👺👻🧛🧟
Allotta folks seem to wonder about the clown. First I show them this: Courtney Hadwin ㋡ Performs 'Clown' Emeli Sande INCREDIBLE!!! | 2016 EP-25 ruclips.net/video/H_8-khKyxVc/видео.htmlsi=FdHAyXEoUGFOSrNc The description on this video, posted over 6 years ago, of a performance 8 or 9 years old, could be a help interpreting this video, which is not that much older than a year. Fans that have followed her livestreams for about 7 years can tell you allot about her notorious sense of humour too🤪
Thank you for this, could say a lot more but it's morning maniac time👋😃
Hey thanks so much @prakakief ! I appreciate you! Thanks for the heads up, I'm very excited for her new music!