“Brightside” by Lumineers

"Brightside" was the Lumineers' opening move on September 20, 2021, the first single and title track from their fourth album, which arrived in 2022. Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites wrote it, and a team of Simone Felice, David Baron, Brian Hubblen, Rick Mullen and Derek Brown produced it, but the band cut the song in a single day, and it has that rush about it.

Schultz pitched it as a teenager's fever dream, an American love story with all the glory and heartbreak that implies: the last two people left, running from something and entirely alone. Kyle Thrash's video, shot in an American Legion Hall and released later that September, opens with ordinary people saying what love means to them, then fills the floor with couples of every age, race and gender waltzing around the band as it plays.

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