The song ‘Heat Waves’ from rock band Glass Animals has been buzzing the atmosphere on all the platforms released. The song is nominated at the Grammys 2022.
The super hit song ‘Heat Waves’ from Glass Animals has been topping many charts in the music industry lately. The song has gained huge popularity and fame from every part of the world. The song was written back in 2018 in a studio by Dave Bayley. Although there were many challenges that the music band had to tackle, the music video of the track first came out during the pandemic and made its name on the famous video game FIFA 21. The song currently holds the record of completing over 190 million views on YouTube. The track has also been quite trending on short video platforms like TikTok and Instagram reels.
Numerous influencers and creators have performed on the shorts by coming up with different types of content. The track on YouTube has also gone on to gain over 3.3 million likes and 71k comments. Apart from the head-nodding music and entertaining lyrics, the unique video choreography has attracted many viewers. The shooting of the video was done when the Covid-19 lockdown was at its peak in the United Kingdom. The location was just in the artist’s neighborhood in East London. The brilliant music video was shot by the neighbors with their phones.
The song is about loss and longing as described by the artist. As seen in the video, the camera movements also highlighted the neighbors leaning on their windows filming the artist, and both the sides of the street are full of parked cars. Dave can be seen carrying many televisions in a wagon in a wagon. The significance of empty halls and theatres is quite evident as the video gradually leads Dave to an empty hall where he sings the rest of the song with his band members. The song has broken many records and also topped Australia’s annually voted poll for the most popular song of the year in the 2020 Triple J Hottest 100.
Glass Animals, which deals with British Indie Rock music is a band based in Oxford, London. The band along with singer Dave Bayley features three of his friends Joe Seaward, Drew MacFarlane, and Edmund Irwin-Singer. The band has been recently nominated for the Best New Artist award at the Grammys 2022, for the song ‘Heat Waves’. Their music video is available on the band’s official YouTube channel. Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube page of the band come with all the regular posts and updates.