This blog is entirely dedicated to the pop rock/piano rock/alternative rock band from Denver, CO, The Fray. I post here songs' meanings, interviews, interesting facts, news & more!
Our guys are awesome kart racers, didn’t you know? This
video blog is kind of old, but I still enjoy it a lot every time I watch it.
The Fray’s members are racing karts; I hope you enjoy it as much as I do when I
watch it!
Isaac is the best doing that, well, it seems,
“Joe’s not very good at
this *laughs*, I’m Isaac Slade and I won the first place” ~ Isaac Slade. Gotta love them, right?
Today it’s 24th of December, so Merry Christmas to all
of you! In 2010, at Christmas, our guys released an EP with Christmas songs
covered for free to everyone. I don’t know if you knew it or not, but, anyway I’m
going to post here all the songs from it for you to enjoy them :)
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a very happy new year! Also thank you to all of you who visit this blog, tell me your opinions about it, things I should improve, and so on; it means a lot :)
Little House is an awesome song in
all the ways possible, right? The lyrics are very meaningful (it’s by The Fray,
that’s something normal), the rhythm is pretty awesome, and Isaac’s aggressive
voice fits with the lyrics and rhythm perfectly. But something that’s really “frayntastic”
is the acoustic version of this song. It’s not an official one, but they played
the song acoustic live in a Video Blog a long time ago, I think 2007. Hope you
enjoy the awesome performance by the guys:
Hello! What’s up? Today, I’m going to tell you the story
behind another Fray song: The Fighter. First of all, the song was released in
2012, and belongs to the album: Scars & Stories. This song is kind of
peculiar, just saying. And that’s because the song is probably the unique Fray
song which was first started by seeing a picture.
The song was written by both Isaac
Slade and Joe King, as usual. As Isaac Slade adds, he saw a picture of a boxing
fight in a newspaper, and from there it all came. In the picture, there was a
boxer fallen in the fight, and a girl surprised of seeing his man fallen and
another boxer, which was like: “I didn’t mean to kill him”. After that, Isaac put
on the piano the picture and started writing the song. Anyway, he started
writing the song as if the boxer was fighting with his doubts; as Isaac says: “It’s
a scary thing to face your doubts, especially in a relationship”. Then, Isaac also
adds this: “I think it’s just like if you don’t face death, you can’t really
live. If you don’t face divorce, you can’t really stay married. It’s not an ‘I
do’, and then you’re set. It’s an ‘I do’, everyday. And when those doubts come
in you can’t stuff them, you can cram them, ignore them, but they’re like
hungry dogs in the basement clamoring to get out. So what I meant to
communicate was that doubts are ok. Struggling in a relationship is ok. Wondering
if there’s somebody better is ok. Because then you choose to stay, instead of
shrugging your shoulders, saying it’s good enough. If you carry those doubts
secretly hidden in the corner of your chest, they’ll kill you. They’ll kill
everything, man. But if you kind of bring them out in the open and talk about
them and sort through them and figure out where they’re coming from and face
them, it’s scary sometimes; sometimes the marriage ends or the relationship
ends, but sometimes you stay married for the rest of your life and it’s real”. These are the words of Isaac Slade who said that in an
interview.
To conclude, the song has a quote which really reflects what Slade
said: “What breaks your bones is not the load you’re carrying, what breaks you
down is all in how you carry it”, and Joe King added also some things about
that: “we all have something that we’re inevitable going to be carrying with
us, but how you carry it is the difference. I think that if you carry it in
front of you or behind you or if you’re carrying everything, the point of how
you’re actually carrying your load is all the difference. I have stuff that I’m
carrying that I’ll carry the rest of my life. Not that they’re bad, but I have
them here. They’re almost like good things now that I’m carrying with me from
the destruction”. This was also said in the same interview as Isaac’s last paragraph,
but this was said by Joe.
Well, I guess there’s not anything more to say about
this song. Here you can watch a video for the song posted in The Fray’s
channel, I don’t know if it’s considered official or not anyway…
Hello guys! Friday at 3AM ET “The Fray” released the official
video for their brand new single “Love Don’t Die”. Maybe you know this, but
Candice Accola is starring in the video (she is engaged to Joe King and acts in The Vampire Diaries). In my opinion, the video was totally awesome, and I really enjoyed
it. What did you think about it? I’m going to post here the official video and
another video of “Behind the Scenes” :)
Also I have two news more to tell you; first one: The
Fray has delayed the date of releasing Helios, now it’ll be released February
25th; and the second one: they also did a Live Chat again the same
day of the releasing of the official video for Love Don’t Die (December 6rd)
