ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE, YOU'LL NEVER KNOW HOW MUCH GOOD TERMS F%$&ING LOVES YOU
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These days, the words “disappointment” and “hero” are too often found in the same breath. What do you do when someone you’ve loved for so long disappoints you? What happens when you can’t separate the art from the artist?
For your friendly neighborhood emo band Good Terms, this subject hits hard. Really hard. Their newest single “Pedestal” will have you screaming their hook “the best way to cope is not to care” by the end.
Vocalist Brian McShea says, “'Pedestal' is about our frustration from being let down by our heroes and our anger toward ourselves for letting our disappointment affect us so viscerally". “Fandom is such a strange thing," says bassist Geo Botelho. "Deep down we all know that the artists we love need to be free to create what is the most honest to them, but it’s difficult when that art doesn’t meet our expectations." Guitarist Ivan Barry continues, “It’s disheartening to watch those we admire create something not only bad but untrue for all the wrong reasons”.
If you’ve been an avid reader of ours, by now you’ve already fallen in love with Good Terms, and you’ve been familiar with their previous videos. A lot of them capture the day-in-the-life of the guys, and all the quirks of their friendship sprawled out on screen.
With their newest music video for “Pedestal”, you’ll fall in love with that same quirky nature, but this time with a new emo-romantic approach. Brilliantly themed in red and small narratives throughout, Guitarist Zach Boucher admits that yes, the song is angry, but it’s also melodramatic and intentionally over-the-top. "We recognize the absurdity of the emotion that inspired the lyrics, so when approaching the video, we wanted to lean into the melodrama and make fun of ourselves a bit”.
The red theme was not ironic, “We went to PeerSpace and only typed in the word ‘red’ into the search. I immediately started laughing at the idea of juxtaposing our angry song with the heart-shaped bed. The red velvet walls, the chrome show bike, and every other ridiculous prop that came into the space. The video came together effortlessly once we were physically in the space and began improving with our surroundings.”
The lyrics take their harder approach to a new level, with McShea jumping into soaring vocals on top of harmonizing guitar licks the message hit you like a ton of bricks, "You've got me so conflicted/ My love is lost/ But I'm still addicted/ Is this really what you want to do?/ I fucking hate how much I love you/ You know you're better than this." The lyrical structure of "Pedestal" is their best yet in my humble opinion.
Watch "Pedestal", and fall in love all over again below: