UK Eurovision hopefuls Bear in mind Monday share cowl of ‘The Story Of Fireplace Saga’ spoof tune ‘Husavik (My Hometown)’
UK Eurovision hopefuls Bear in mind Monday have shared a canopy of The Story Of Fireplace Saga spoof tune ‘Husavik (My Hometown)’.
The country-pop trio – Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele – are the primary girl-group to symbolize the UK since Treasured completed twelfth in 1999. Since then, the UK has solely cracked the High 10 on three events, most just lately when Sam Ryder got here second three years in the past.
Final March, the group launched ‘What the Hell Simply Occurred?’, which later turned their first tune to amass over a million streams on Spotify.
Earlier right this moment (April 25), they issued a canopy of ‘Husavik (My Hometown)’, a tune composed for the 2020 comedy movie, carried out by its star Will Ferrell and Molly Sandén, who sang the components for the character performed by Rachel McAdams. Just like the movie, the music video for ‘Husavik (My Hometown)’ was shot in the Icelandic city.
“We’ve by no means seen anyplace as lovely with our personal eyes! It was essentially the most emotional we’ve ever been from the second we took off to the second we left,” the band shared in a press assertion. “We have been crying as a result of it was simply essentially the most unimaginable expertise.”
The quilt “is particular for us,” they continued, “because it makes us take into consideration our hometown and the truth that we’ve been mates for such a very long time. The tune feels fairly nostalgic and that’s how we really feel a variety of the time about our friendship.” Watch it beneath.
The trio have been singing collectively since they met at sixth kind school in 2012. They competed on The Voice UK in 2019, constructed a large TikTok following in the course of the pandemic, and launched into a sold-out UK tour final 12 months.
‘What the Hell Simply Occurred?’ options Queen-influenced glam rock guitars and power-pop drums in addition to their trademark vocal harmonies – it sees the trio transfer away from country-leaning earlier singles equivalent to final 12 months’s ‘Chuckle About It’ and ‘What The Ladies’ Rest room Is For’.
Bear in mind Monday are set to compete at The Grand Closing of the Eurovision Track Contest, which is able to air reside on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Could 17.
On the group’s contest targets, Byrne revealed to NME that they “have a cope with our whole workforce – like, 30 individuals have shook on this deal – that if we end within the prime 5, everyone seems to be getting a ‘WTHJH?’ tattoo.”