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!
We love documentaries, don't we? Well, I don't know if you like animal documentaries, or history documentaries and so on, but I'm quite sure you do love The Fray's documentaries! I'm talking in plural, you noticed that, didn't you? Well, Fair Fight isn't the only documentary which our guys have made.
Maybe you knew that before reading this post, but, hey, maybe you didn't know and you're just finding it up! The documentary I'm talking about is How to Save a Life - The Story.
It's a really interesting documentary since they talk about the beginnings of the band, how it was formed, the making of their first album, talking about little things about themselves, songs and the album itself.
If you haven't watched it, go watch it because you won't regret it - you'll really enjoy it. Also, if you have watched, why not watching it again? ;)
I was thinking of making a review of what it has been this year like for The Fray, but they haven't been much online and there haven't been many news from them. They went on tour last summer and they started writing their new record but that's basically it - there's not much more to say!
However, I've been thinking and I've just realized that this is the third year this blog is active because I created it in 2013, so this blog is being here for a pretty long while. Also the blog is really close to 15K reads which is so sick - thank you so much guys ^-^
I didn't quite know what to do this post about, but I wanted to make it somehow important since it's the last one of the year and I felt like it had to be special. Checking my YouTube playlists I found some videos that gave me a cool idea: sharing with you songs that The Fray has played live but were never officially released.
The songs I found or could remember about were three: The Fall, Scars & Stories and Think It Over. The three of them are very beautiful songs that I personally hope that someday the guys make into a studio version - who knows?
By the way, I hope you guys had a wonderful year and that the next year is awesome for y'all - happy new year! My best wishes xx
This month, our guys have been kind of inactive (so have I), so I can't really bring you news from LP5. It is pretty clear that they're working on the new record, since they posted some photos last months of them in the studio, and they played at fall views casino, but nothing else! All we can do is wait patiently until we have more news - what seems that will take a while :( Meanwhile, here you have some photos of the guys in the studio!
Today, as some kind of throwback, I'm bringing you an interview The Fray did for Billboard in 2014. In this one, they're being asked questions about their band mates that they're supposed to know, but do they actually do?
Lately, I've been thinking in depth about this blog, and I couldn't help but feel disappointed wih myself, because I don't post as often as I should. And, actually I've said that before but at the moment I'm only posting a post per month, which I feel isn't fair for you. Due to that, I'm going to try to post once a week - if I see I'm too busy and can't do that, I'll post at least twice a month. It's not too much but it's way more than what I've been posting for the last eight or nine months. You have my word that I'll try my best.
Okay, now, apart from that, let's talk about stuff related to the band this blog's about. Today, I'm talking to you about The Fray's song "1961", from their third album 'Scars & Stories'.
If you know some History, that date will remind you of something, right? The Berlin Wall, exactly. It was built in 1961, and it was demolished in 1989, date which is also mentioned in the song. That can give us an idea of what it's about, can't it?
Accordng to an interview from Isaac Slade for the huffington post, the song comes from a trip that him and Dillon took to New Orleans to try to do some writing. Before I go on, I'll remind you in case you don't know or forgot, that Isaac Slade travelled a lot to get some inspiration for songs while writing the album. Now, we're back to the song. So, they rented a house and they wrote a song about The Berlin Wall, and "the dvision it represented in regards to one unified city becoming two cities still under the covering of a country. They're both German, but in a sense, they were as far from each other as they could possibly be. I think that's how our relationships can be sometimes. Not to sound cliché, but we all as people build these walls that don't really come down until someone comes into our lives, tears them down, and says, "Enough!".
That is actually the feeling the song brings, the feeling of being "so close but so far away", which can mean physically or emotionally.
Hello my fellow readers! Only a few days ago, The Fray played at The World Meeting of Families festival, which was attended by Pope Francis, last Saturday. This event is an international celebration of family, community and faith, which this year has featured international artists such as Mark Wahlberg, Matt Maher, Andrea Bocelli, Juanes, and so on!
Nevertheless, this isn't the only thing The Fray has been up lately. They've announced they're working on their fifth full-length album, saying that they've finished a week in the studio - "super early stages of lp5", which is definitely a good new! We can do nothing but wait, I hope we can listn to some new stuff soon :)
Hi guys! Today, I was going across The Fray pictures in my computer, and I thought that it would be a cool idea to post some, but not any! Since all of The Fray members are daddies, I'm going to post pictures of them with their kids :) Aren't they cute?
