One Direction - Forever Young (Alphaville cover)

One Direction - Forever Young (Alphaville cover) One Direction (commonly abbreviated as 1D) are an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and previously, Zayn Malik until his departure from the band on 25 March 2015. The group signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by social media, One Direction's four albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013) and Four (2014) topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Story of My Life" and "Steal My Girl". Lyrics: Let's dance in style Let's dance for a while Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don't have the power but we never say never Sitting in a sandpit Life is a short trip The music's for the sad man Forever young I wanna be Forever young Do you really want to live forever Forever Forever young Some are like water, some are like the heat Some are like the melody of some other beat But sooner or later they all will be gone Why don't they stay young? It's hard to get old without a cause I don't want to perish like a fading horse It's like diamonds in the sun And diamonds are forever Forever young I wanna be Forever young Do you really want to live forever Forever Or never? Forever young I wanna be Forever young (forever) Do you really want to live forever Forever Or never? So many adventures couldn't happen today So many songs we forgot to play So many dreams are swinging out of the blue We let 'em come true Forever young I wanna be Forever young Do you really want to live forever Forever Or never? Forever young I wanna be Forever young Do you really want to live forever Forever Or never? Forever young I wanna be Forever young (forever) Do you really want to live forever Forever Or never? Forever young I wanna be Forever young (forever) Do you really want to live forever (forever) Forever (forever) Forever young... Understanding the context in which appeared the original song from Alphaville: "Posted Monday February 8, 2010 by John Gunders in Music | Politics The song was originally written by German synth-pop outfit Alphaville, and “Forever Young” was the title track on their 1984 debut album. For me the clue is in the date of the original release: 1984 was smack in the middle of the Cold War and the song captures the sense of existential dread and fatalism that afflicted many young people at that time: Let’s dance in style, let’s dance for a while Heaven can wait we’re only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you going to drop the bomb or not? This isn’t a political song; there is no advocating about arms reduction or political solutions, just the plea to forget politics and go out dancing. While the songwriters don’t want to die, anything seems better than waiting around for an apocalypse that ordinary people felt they didn’t have a way of stopping. Let us die young or let us live forever We don’t have the power but we never say never Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune The music’s played by the madman It is hard to remember what things were like at that time, but the threat of nuclear war wasn’t just an academic question: it hung over us all the time. For an indication, try and find a copy of the 1983 nuclear holocaust film The Day After, or the completely devastating graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, When the Wind Blows. Dying young didn’t seem so bad, given the alternatives. It’s so hard to get old without a cause I don’t want to perish like a fading horse Youth is like diamonds in the sun And diamonds are forever There were plenty of people writing anti-nuclear songs in those days: Sting’s Russians Nena’s 99 Luftballons, and of course, pretty much the whole of Red Sails in the Sunset, the 1984 album by Midnight Oil, but few caught the terror as well as Alphaville. None of the covers come close to capturing the chilling sense of desperation subsumed into dance of the Alphaville version. This is no “Working Class Man” or “Born in the USA” railing against political injustice: this is a particularly northern European drink-yourself-to-oblivion response to the issue. I wasn’t aware of the song in 1984, and I probably wouldn’t have approved—I liked political songs better. But from this perspective, I’m understanding where they are coming from, and I love the melancholy. " teens

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