Underwater

Album: Solace (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • In "Underwater," the second single from Rüfüs Du Sol's third album, Solace (2018), lead singer Tyrone Lindqvist is metaphorically trapped underwater, overwhelmed by his circumstances, and pleads for someone to save him before he drowns. His emotions represent what the Aussie band was feeling when they were working on the album in Los Angeles.

    Drummer James Hunt recalled in a 2018 Futuremag Music interview:

    "There's a few different themes that kept coming up in terms of feeling submerged in something. That's where the theme for 'Underwater' came out of. It came out of a lyrical jam and the repeated triplet lyric, 'I'm stuck underwater.' We realized that it was on point for where we were at, because it felt like we were stuck underwater and lost in this process. We were just working day and night, and not giving our bodies any rest. We were neglecting our personal lives to work on music."
  • The song earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording in 2020.

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