Hay explains: "It's trying to at least paint this picture of what really is unknowable, whether it's an afterlife, which I'm probably on most days don't think that there is.But if you imagine one, it might as well be beautiful and somewhat accepting. Like some of the other songs on the album, the uptempo-sounding "The Sea of Always" finds the artist coming to grips with life's circumstances. It's almost like they're still speaking with you, they're still talking to you even though they are gone." You still have this relationship with them. So that was quite an emotional day and it brought out the idea that you're left with certain things when your parents pass away. My brother and sister and I were in Melbourne at the same time, so we decided to let them go. I had my mother's ashes for years and my sister had my father's. "We developed very strong and complicated relationships with and they were very important people for all of us. The singer described it as one of his favorite songs on his new album. Meanwhile, the poignant and personal "Starfish and Unicorns," was inspired by Hay and his siblings spreading their late parents' ashes. But this record, in particular, Michael would come around and we would work on something, and I would come up with these lyrics. That was interesting because normally I work by myself a lot. So he's got quite a lot of songs on this record that I co-wrote with him. This was before the pandemic hit when I started to work on this record. I wrote a lot of songs with Michael Georgiades. "I didn't set out to write about a certain thing. "Each song to me seems to exist in its own right," Hay, who is touring this summer, tells Newsweek about his introspective album. Filled with melodic pop hooks and sophisticated arrangements, the new album could easily apply to the current pandemic times because of its lyrical tone, although it was written and recorded just prior to the 2020 lockdown. An example of the latter can be found on Hay's latest album, Now and the Evermore, which was released in March. Long after Men at Work's initial breakup in 1986, Hay has since transitioned from being the frontman of the New Wave rock group to a solo artist whose music is rooted in the classic singer-songwriter tradition. 1 on the Billboard charts and has since sold 6 million copies in the United States. Not only did it yield two of the band's biggest smash hits, "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under," but the album spent an astounding 15 weeks at No. In fact, 2022 marks a special milestone for Hay and the group: It was 40 years ago that Men at Work released their debut, Business as Usual, in the United States. To any music fan, the mention of Colin Hay's name automatically conjures up memories of Men at Work, the popular 1980s Australian rock band for which he was the lead singer and chief songwriter.
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