Arcade Fire's Win Butler: 'Everything Now' started out as a remix.' - Best Kept Secret festival 2017
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Arcade Fire's singer and principal songwriter Win Butler on writing recent single 'Everything Now', advice from David Bowie, listening to their audience (or not) and the initial response to their classic single 'Wake Up'.
Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band based in Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, along with Win's younger brother William Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury and Jeremy Gara. The band's current touring line-up also includes former core member Sarah Neufeld, frequent collaborator Owen Pallett, two additional percussionists, Diol Edmond and Tiwill Duprate, and saxophonists Matt Bauder and Stuart Bogie.
Founded in 2001 by friends and classmates Win Butler and Josh Deu, the band came to prominence in 2004 with the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Funeral. Their second studio album, Neon Bible, won them the 2008 Meteor Music Award for Best International Album and the 2008 Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year. Their third studio album, The Suburbs, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim and commercial success.[5] It received many accolades, including the 2011 Grammy for Album of the Year, the 2011 Juno Award for Album of the Year, and the 2011 Brit Award for Best International Album. In 2013, Arcade Fire released their fourth album, Reflektor, and scored the feature film Her, for which band members William Butler and Owen Pallett were nominated in the Best Original Score category at the 86th Academy Awards. In 2017, the band announced their fifth studio album Everything Now. The band's first four studio albums have received nominations for the Best Alternative Music Album Grammy; the band's work has also been named three times as a shortlist nominee for the Polaris Music Prize: in 2007 for Neon Bible, in 2011 for The Suburbs and in 2014 for Reflektor, winning the award for The Suburbs.
The band plays guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, glockenspiel, keyboard, synthesizer, French horn, accordion, harp, mandolin, and hurdy-gurdy, and takes most of these instruments on tour; the multi-instrumentalist band members switch duties throughout shows.
How could anyone be disappointed about Wake Up? That's one of their best songs
Everytime you close your eyes
Liiiieeessss liiiiiieeeeeesss
That was the most Win Butler thing I have ever seen.
I'm a late AF fan, I started listening just around the time EN came. I fell in love with the sound that came from Reflektor and Everything Now that many early fans detest. The neo disco dance vibe is just so uplifting and unique and I love it just as much as I love their earlier work. Anything that this man and his band creates is solid gold and that's all I need to say about that,
Yup I’m with you. I came in during Reflektor and I think it’s their best album, with The Suburbs right behind.
That david bowie quote is so epic
I love this man
i would listen him talking for hours
Absolutely incredible performance in Dublin this week.
A true AF performance
Amen. I was literally in heaven when he had us turn on the phone lights and they played Sprawl II.
I'm only starting to watch interviews with this guy, he's a boss
I'm only starting to listen AF, I'm so sad I didn't listened to them before.
Lol
I took my 9 year old to see them. It was his first concert and he loved it!
I love how Win just throws down Hey Jude and going to church. Well played.
Thank you for the subtitles as I can't understand his perfectly good English.
That's just because 80% of the people watch video's on their phone without sound ;)
Idk why but he is so pleasing to watch. I could watch his interviews over and over again lol
I was almost two years old when Funeral came out and when my dad bought the album. It makes me proud that the band I’ve been listening to since I could barely walk has come so far.
My son was 2 months old when 'Funeral' was released, My daughter was born exactly 13 months after 'Funeral' was released and they described Saturday evening on Best Kept Secret - because of the great Arcade Firde set which we watched from row 1 - as the best evening/night of their life and I can't blame them, it was magical and we enjoyed every second.
the subtitles tell a slightly different story.
It's really pissing me off hahahaha
Love him and Arcade Fire ❤️
so excited to get to see them in DC. I admire Win and the rest of the band so much.
Amazing song and music video.
I agree, true art and music doesn't require an audience, because the audience turns into critics, or worse still, fans.
He looks so different from how I remember him when I saw AF live when they started out. Before the show me and a friend were having a drink in a bar that was attached to the venue and the band was having dinner in there.
Not sure I see a problem with monetising UA-cam....that's how I discovered your two latest singles....great stuff
Dankii,- hmmm. Again, not so sure I see a problem with this. I personally have nothing to hide. This "direct marketing" is responsible for me finding some really intriguing things to spend money on. Is there an issue with corporations making more money. These same corporations employ people. People with families. That's my version of Bernie Sander's "Democratic Socialism" it's called capitalism. Look it up.
Dankii hahah, I see no human rights taken away. I had the right to create, or not create the gmail account. Take a breather. There will always be private ways to communicate. Just don't do it on-line if you want it to be completely private. Fyi, I don't mean to me a jerk to you, and my debate is meant to be in spirit of friendship:) I'm only asking you to consider it from a different angle. I love Arcade Fire. But don't forget, they too rely on marketing to sell their music. They deserve to get paid for their efforts. I would argue that corporations deserve the same.
Dankii - oh, and I have plenty of controversial things to say, and I have no problem saying them publicly.
Dankii - Clearly my wisdom is wasted on you. For the moment anyway. One day you might just get it. But not today.
....and I'm arguing with a child. Socialism works great, until you run out of somebody else's money. Ps- Bernie has now decided to purchase two additional homes, and was seen driving a 100k super car. Look it up. Good night little one
Wake Up is their best song. And arguably one of the best songs of all time. imo. 😀
3:00 I was two and I'm a huge fan
Wake up is mu favorite one cmon!
Kinda would like a new album Mr. Butler
Your wish has been granted. :)
Wtf are the subtitles for? He's speaking perfect English.
English is not my first language so the subtitles are helpful for me to follow what he's saying
Corny? I'm offended. It's art. There is not such thing as "corny".
TeddyB3AR Yeah, very rude of the interviewer
superhandsomepig We're not debating if it is or not, just pointing out the rude interviewer
WTF was up with the 'corny' questions? Arcade Fire make you want to groove in concert.
Everything now (the song) is a good fucking song. I relate so much to the ending ('Every inch of space in my heart is filled with something I'll never start: the ashes of everything now. I'm in the black again, can't make it back again...from everything now'). It makes me want to cry.
Hell, the whole album is so good if you understand the message. Fuck everyone else that is shitting on arcade fire today.
I like that advice at the end, this is probably really different, but man it kind of reminds of the writers from The Last of Us 2, they just made a story for themselves that was far different from the first and it felt like a big fuck you to the fans. As long as you got a good team around you that supports you and also lets you know when you're wrong then that's good advice to give.
Wtf? Who asks an artist if they don't think their song is corny in an interview???
For someone who writes such prefound lyrics. He doesn't verbalise his thoughts well haha.
Charlie White A writer's curse. I have the same problem
Charlie White A writer's curse. I have the same problem
Charlie White they are called flaws.everyone has them.i can think circles around most people and even articulate some of them.But i did not say i was as kind anymore.flaws man.
captchasuck I love win as much as the next guy, are your flaws based around lacking a sense of humour?
Charlie White
i know a few people like this, it's not that he can't articulate his thoughts, it's just that he's choosing from a couple parallel ideas before committing them to speech, almost like a form of overthinking
This is so terribly edited
People walked out when they heard wake up in electric guitar? Isn't wake up from funeral though? My question is, what did some fans expect? Lol
Their older music
I think he might be on something during this interview.
cooljunkproductions He never does drugs. He said in another interview. The band doesn't do drugs.
These questions 😑
*pretentious alert* yet he's right
I've never really gotten this pretentious thing. Everything he said obviously won't go down well with everybody but it is all true. He just says... what's true. And people always get irritated by that lol.
men, can you read? I said he was RIGHT LOL these kidos don't pay attention man
Yeah and I wasn't saying you didn't I was also saying that he was right. I was talking about the pretentious thing which I actually do disagree with. Bit patronising to call random strangers kids as well.
sorry bro, if I offended you in some way but you were the one 'analysing' my comment.. these days we should be allies not enemies btw...... but whatever
I hear what you're saying, but I wouldn't call it pretention as much as protection actually. If you look for validation in your critics you'll find you'll never get it, and worse utterly shatter your own identity in the process. Creating for your own expression is art. Creating for others expectation is homework.
'Cos every era needs their Simple Minds.
not on my radar? well be more open then :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
New arcade fire is shit. Abba-sque.