Raye - Click Clack Symphony featuring Hans Zimmer is a Must-Watch Delight

Well, isn’t this just fabulous? Raye’s Click Clack Symphony, taken from her upcoming album This Music May Contain Hope is quite the number.  It’s an ode (well, a symphony) to those around us who make life better.  In this case it’s Raye’s buddies, who, when they hear her call, march around to her house and get her out of it (the home and her downer).  I love the metaphor of the click click click clack symphony echoing the sound of their heels as they come to her rescue!  They are definitely going to heel her (OK, very bad joke).

The video to accompany the song is hugely imaginative; the animated intro (well, you know me and animation) gives us the odds of being born on this planet at 1 in 400 trillion (no idea where Raye got this statistic, but quite happy to go with it).  It then quickly jumps to Raye’s house where she is awaiting the arrival of her friends (and when you don’t have enough wine in the fridge to get yourself going, you need a few mates), then to their escape into the street and beyond.  The video accompanies Raye’s (really clever) lyrics perfectly – it’s something of a tour de force, frankly.

The message is certainly unambiguous – you should never settle for depression on a Friday night!  Life is (as always) too short, so get your friends and click click click clack a symphony of your own – not only on a Friday but any day of the week. Like Raye, you could “believe for the first time that she would again feel the sun”.  As layered as this song may be (and it has many but the monologue at the end takes it to another level), I think the message is that bad times must always come to an end, but patience and faith “in the seeds that are planted beneath the snow” are also vital in getting you through and back into that sunshine.  What a fabulous song.  

Best British singer-songwriter since Kate Bush? I reckon so.