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2022 single by Cub Sport From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Always Got the Love" is a song by Australian alt-pop group Cub Sport. The song premiered on Triple J and was released on 14 June 2022.[1] It is the lead single from the group’s fifth studio album, Jesus at the Gay Bar.
"Always Got the Love" | ||||
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Single by Cub Sport | ||||
from the album Jesus at the Gay Bar | ||||
Released | 14 June 2022 | |||
Length | 3:27 | |||
Label | Cub Sport, Believe | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tim Nelson, Simon Lam | |||
Producer(s) | Tim Nelson, Simon Lam | |||
Cub Sport singles chronology | ||||
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Upon release the group's lead singer Tim Nelson said "I've always felt like the songs that people can cry to are important but I think being able to celebrate and move is equally important and that's kind of where I'm at right now. I wanna make music that makes people feel uplifted."[2] Additionally, Nelson told Triple J, "I've written a lot about the queer struggle and it was time to write something that felt like queer celebration. That's the inspiration for this song. It was just the song that I felt I wanted to hear through lockdown... Something that felt uplifting."[1]
At the AIR Awards of 2023, the song was nominated for Independent Song of the Year and won Best Independent Dance, Electronica or Club Single.[3][4]
Cub Sport's lead singer Tim Nelson said he wrote "Always Got the Love" with Simon Lam (of Kllo)[2] in Melbourne on 23 March 2021, the day after his husband and the band's keyboardist Sam Netterfield's birthday. Nelson said the lyrics were inspired following a day at Hyam Beach that he and Netterfield went on in February 2021 saying "I'd been feeling pretty down around that time but this day at the beach I just felt so good. I remember being in the water thinking, 'I wanna try capture this energy in a song so I can hold onto it'. 'Always Got the Love' ended up becoming that song."[5] Nelson and Lam also co-produced the track.[2]
The Jack Birtles-directed video depicts the band members at a warehouse party, with drummer Dan Puusaari DJ-ing. Nelson and guitarist Zoe Davis are dancers, while Netterfield arrives at the party on a motorcycle.[6]
Al Newstead from Triple J called it "an uplifting banger" saying, "[Tim] nailed the brief, wrapping his expressive voice around sumptuous house piano and a two-step beat that would perfectly soundtrack a beach rave in the middle of a European summer."[1]
Leigh Andrew Hill from Out in Perth said "the track is powered by an effervescent two-step beat and frontman Tim Nelson's radiant falsetto" and called it "pure unadulterated joy".[7]
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