Once you turn on Arlie‘s new single “wait a minute,” you won’t be able to help but picture yourself driving down the California coast in the 1960’s! It’s a total trip, but it’s a trip that may just leave you questioning a few things in life.
For example, there’s tons of beauty on this planet. Being able to look out at the ocean from a hillside in Malibu on a sunny day? It’s a feeling many just wouldn’t trade for anything else! However, many of us have been told the afterlife is even more beautiful. So… why are we stuck here?
We might as well as make good use of this time on Earth though, and Arlie has been doing just that! After laying low for a few years, the group returned earlier this summer with “karma.” Just last month, Arlie teamed up with roller skating influencer Nena (IG @ziggystardusstt) for their ultra-dreamy “poppin” music video.
Speaking on “wait a minute,” lead singer Nathaniel Banks spilled:
“This is one of my favorite songs on the album, if not my absolute favorite. I wrote it while I was still in college, and we’ve been playing it live since our first shows as Arlie. WAM was a response to a collage of musical sentiments and ideas I was consuming at the time, via existentialist writers like Camus and Dostoyevsky, along with The Beach Boys, The Kinks, and The Zombies… I was thrilled to have a chance to reference Tom Sawyer’s funeral prank in a song about existentialism. And the irony of singing ‘If it’s paradise that’s after life, I wonder why we waste our time on the world’ over a 60s psychedelic / baroque-pop musical kaleidescope allows me to have a sense of humor about my own suffering — this song is a triumph, as long as you don’t take the advice of the speaker too literally.”
Erm… we’ll try! Listen to “wait a minute” below.
