In October 2021, the band presented the first and title track “The Tipping Point” about the suffering after the loss of a loved one who passed away after a long illness. The second single was “No Small Thing”, the video for which shows the conflict between individual freedoms and collective responsibility.
Tears for Fears are back with a new album
The last number promoting the album, “Break The Man”, is about the power of women, the fall of patriarchy and the need for male-female balance in the world. The accompanying music video was inspired by the lyrics of the song. The clip shows the patriarchal reality; a place of endless hierarchies, built on blind sacrifice and insecure structures. From the inside, this world seems endless, but from the outside it is merely a toy in the hand of our Mother Earth.
Tears For Fears is one of the cult bands of the 80s. The group has sold over 30 million albums and launched singles such as “Shout”, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”, “Mad World”, “Sowing The Seeds Of Love” or ” Woman In Chains “. The duo debuted in 1983 with the album “The Hurting”, which included the hymns “Mad World”, “Change” and “Pale Shelter”.
The second album “Songs from the Big Chair” (1985) won the band a BRIT award for “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and went platinum five times, reaching the top of the Billboard Top 200. The last Tears For Fears album in the 1980s was ” The Seeds of Love (1989). This was followed by Elemental (1993), Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995) and Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004). In 2013, Tears For Fears returned with their first record in a decade, a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start”.
The songs of Tears for Fears were used as samples by artists such as The Weeknd, David Guetta and Kanye West, and their interpretations of the duo’s hits were presented by Lorde, Adam Lambert and Disturbed. In addition, the band’s songs can be heard in the films “Donnie Darko” and “Straight Outta Compton” or the series “Law of the Street” and “Mr. Robot”.
Source: Gazeta
Tristin is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his in-depth and engaging writing on sports. He currently works as a writer at 247 News Agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the sports industry.
