{"id":19264,"date":"2017-05-03T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=19264"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:57:40","slug":"midweek-music-break-midday-swim-hold-on-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/midweek-music-break-midday-swim-hold-on-tight\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: Midday Swim, &#8220;Hold On Tight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JOk7VpTu-n0?rel=0\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I know almost nothing about this song, and am not sure I&#8217;ve heard of the band. For what it&#8217;s worth, though, here&#8217;s what Midday Stream themselves say about it in the publicity release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve just released a video for &#8220;Hold On Tight&#8221; &#8212; the heart of our upcoming EP <em>Climbing Out of Caves<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The surrealist-fantasy feel of the video came from the director, Pedja Milosavlijevic, and our mutual admiration of films like &#8220;The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,&#8221; &#8220;Pulp Fiction,&#8221; and &#8220;The Grand Budapest Hotel,&#8221; as well as the general work of directors such as David Lynch, Wes Anderson, <span class=\"explannote\" title=\"Didn't recognize this name at ALL. I must have been asleep; he's been around quite a while, won a couple of Cannes awards, etc. Wikipedia's got a good article about him -- he sounds like someone whose work is worth seeking out.\">Emir Kusturica<\/span> and some classic Spielberg&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When writing this song we made an effort to capture the spirit of childhood &#8212; a time when one&#8217;s imagination can run wild. Through a child&#8217;s eyes the world looks like magic and the song suggests that even now we should try to recapture that sense of youthful wonderment. There is a spirit of perseverance both in the instrumentation and the lyrics that we also wanted to reflect in the music video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those are some pretty good values to work toward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know almost nothing about this song, and am not sure I&#8217;ve heard of the band. 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