" Right Now " is a rock song written by the Van Halen group for their album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge . This song reflects life for now and is not afraid to make changes. Vocalist Sammy Hagar said that he was writing this song lyric in the studio late one night, and he heard Eddie Van Halen in a nearby room working on a piano melody. Hagar says he suddenly realizes that "we're writing the same song," so he goes into the room and starts singing his words on Van Halen music. According to Eddie, the instrument dates back to 1983, "before I wrote" Jump "- it did not come out until about '92, '93 or something like that, because nobody wants anything to do with it." Early versions of the melody appeared in the 1984 film The Wild Life printed by Eddie Van Halen. Eddie also stated that before Hagar was hired to replace David Lee Roth, he considered an album that would feature a variety of guest singers, with Joe Cocker being assigned to "Right Now".
Hagar said the lyrics for "Right Now" were the best he ever wrote for a Van Halen song. "I'm tired of writing cheap sex songs," she recalled almost two decades later. "Eddie and I want to be serious and talk about the world's problems." Different video edits have been used in the 2004 Van Halen tour to make more explicit political statements in subsequent years.
Video Right Now (Van Halen song)
Video musik
The music video (directed by Mark Fenske and produced by Carolyn Beug) is reflected on the events that occurred at the time, both within the band and the social issues in the world around them. It uses capital letters to display sentences like "Currently, people have unprotected sex" and "Currently, someone is working too hard for minimum wage", to describe the recording in the background. This concept was used earlier in the video like Phil Collins' "Another Day in Paradise".
Hagar initially opposed the video concept when it was first explained to him. He stated: "People will not even listen to what I say because they will read this text". Although Warner Mo Ostin's chairman phoned him to declare that it would be the greatest music video of his group career, he was still so angry that he disappeared into South Carolina for a week with his girlfriend.
During the actual filming, he had pneumonia and suffered a fever, which raised his anger over the video. Fenske says he's not paying attention, but lets him get nervous and busy because it's the first video he directed and he has many other things to watch for. According to Hagar, the scene in which he folded his arms and refused to sing, and the end of the video where he slammed the door of the dressing room was not staged - he was really angry.
"For the idea of ​​the girl who burned a man's picture," Fenske recalls, "I have my picture at the age of 24 that I do not mind burning." He said everyone in the video was a crew member or member of the band, except one - his mother. She took it to the Video Music Awards as her date.
The video won three awards at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, including awards for Video of the Year. Bassist Michael Anthony said in a 2011 book that he thought it was the best video Van Halen ever made. Despite the award, Hagar allegedly expressed his disappointment with the result, stating "I do not think that's enough about the band."
Hagar finally admitted that she was somewhat impressed with the music video, calling it "brilliant." He clarified that the difficulty of working together during the video shoot comes from the initial storyboard treatment presented by Fenske, whom Hagar felt irregular, vague, and missed the meaning of a song she was so proud of. He went on to praise Fenske for his work. Hagar will reuse the video concept and the lyrics "now" for the title song of her 2008 solo album Cosmic Universal Fashion .
Maps Right Now (Van Halen song)
In popular culture
The song was later used in Crystal Pepsi commercials between 1992 and 1993. Eddie said that he agreed to license the song to PepsiCo because he knew that if he did not, the company would hire a studio musician to record a cover.
Politics
This song has been used many times by US political candidates. On August 29, 2008 during a rally campaign in Ohio, after Senator John McCain's announcement of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his partner and his comments, the song was played on a sound system. The band members reportedly disagreed about their use at the McCain rally - Alex and Eddie Van Halen issued a statement saying "Permits are not sought or granted and will not be granted." Hagar, though she does not specifically support McCain, said that she personally has no problem with the use of McCain's campaign song, insisting that no matter who the candidate is using the song, the lyrics still have the same meaning. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump used the song at his meetings.
The band also uses songs for political statements. Although Van Halen's vocalist Sammy Hagar was a financial supporter of President George W. Bush in his re-election campaign in 2004, during a 2004 reunion tour, the band projected the "Right Now" music video, with some extra modern scenes, on the big screen behind them as they bring a song. Some of the new modern scenes are, "Right now, someone is driving too fast for the last time" and "Right now, a 13-year-old boy illegally downloads this song." One other update is a new picture of US President George W. Bush, accompanied by a description "At present, nothing is more expensive than regret."
References
External links
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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