The song just reflects in an eeriely perfect way my idea of the ideal romantic night with my future lover. However, when we take things to the chorus, this is where it truly gets emotional to me. When Birdy sings about how thinking of "you" reminds her or all those things that occured, it sounds to me as two lovers looking back on how their life together has been so far. I do not see a wild mansion party in front of me with lots of people dancing, I see a couple in front of me that are alone at night somewhere in the fields, under a star-filled sky, dancing to this beautifully romantic music. Birdy stated it is about having a great time with friends, the kind of time that you know you’ll never ever forget it. The video also demonstrates this: a big nocturnal mansion party is shown where people dressed in weird costumes walk around, people have fun, Birdy is shown on a swing while glowing lights now and then illuminate the nightly sky. "Wings" describes remembering past events ranging from dancing on top of cars or waking up with the sunlight coming in, just because she thought of the person she was with. This was the type of song justifying buying the CD for (luckily there are more gems on her album) Even including one day where I played it 30 or 40 times in a row. The song immediately grasped me and I could not stop listening to it. The sound of the song is warm, the lyrics heartwarming and beautiful. I was instantly grabbed by the piano driven stanzas and Birdy’s fragile yet beautiful voice, then to have an almost celebrating more up-tempo chorus in which the other instruments come into play. The first single from the album, "Wings", was a true revelation to me. It just gets more remarkable when hearing the songs and realise how beautiful it sounds. But equally important: instead of the covers she did when she released her first record, this time Birdy co-wrote all songs on the album, a rare fact for someone of such tender age. While the piano still plays a very important role, some other instruments were added (Birdy even learnt to play the guitar for this album) which leaves some songs with a more bombastic impression, as if the sound gradually becomes stronger and reaches its peak when the other instruments come in. This album is a drastic turn away from the very acoustic piano-driven fragile debut album. Now, aged 17, the follow-up "Fire within" is doing very fine as well. It reached nr 1 in Belgium, The Netherlands and as far as Australia, where her singles also reached very high in the singles charts. Later that year, Birdy released her debut album, the self-titled "Birdy" which contained only cover songs except for 1 track which was an original. She entered with her own song "So be free" and won the first prize in both the under-18 category and the overall category.Įarly 2011, aged 14, Birdy covered Bon Iver’s song "Skinny Love" which resulted in mass success in the charts, even reaching nr 1 in several countries. The true story of Jasmine’s musical career started at age 12 however when she entered Open Mic UK in 2008, a talent contest for unsigned singers and bands. Her mother was a concert pianist, and Birdy adopted the love for the piano, learning to play at age 7 and already writing own songs aged 8. She was born in 1996 in England in a very musical family. She herself was born and raised in England but her real name, Jasmine van den Bogaerde, indicates Belgian and Dutch origins.
It is almost unbelievable that someone of such young age could do that.īirdy, who took her stage name from the fact her parents always called her like that as a baby due to the way she opened her mouth for eating, is a British singer-songwriter of Belgian and Dutch roots. A 17 year old able to write such an emotional song, is a rare talent. If you listen to a song over and over again for more than 5 hours while reading, then it must indicate this song is special.Īnd indeed the song is special, especially when knowing it was co-written and co-composed by Birdy herself, who is only 17 years of age at the time I am writing this. Sometimes my own "meaning" will correspond with the real meaning of the song, sometimes it will be totally different.
Birdy lyrics the same series#
So both the real meaning and my own interpretation together resulted in the idea of creating a series of song portraits called "Every Song has a story to tell". But then, every song has a meaning, and in addition most songs I love have a very specific personal meaning to me. Even if there is no special meaning or so, just sharing the songs I love. I thought of more frequently writing about songs just because… I like them.
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