Mega Happy - 'Stubborn' (Single Review)

Post-punk indie-rock trio Mega Happy from Leeds have written and recorded this single going full DIY, but they are the polar opposite to the kind of music their band name insinuates. Yes they're indie, but not uplifting indie - it's like how The Smiths, The Cure, Joy Division etc have an effect on you. It's quite frankly upsetting. Debut single 'We Can't Be Friends' released last month carries the same affect as new single 'Stubborn' to be released March 26th.

The track is short at two minutes and forty-five seconds, and the content is intense - it obtains, suicidal thoughts, mental illness, and little optimism.  Mental illnesses can take control at times and can cause further damage to an individual such as self-harm and suicidal thoughts. The track displays the thought process of what it's like to be in a depressive rut that seems impossible to get out of.

"A brand new day makes me think of suicide in an unironic way.  A crippling pain that's so stubborn like an unwashed bed sheet stain. A little brain can see only one way out and its right down the drain."

For some people there is only one way out.

Throughout it all they still face the next day though, they want to have their life taken from them but they still enter a brand new day, and that's the underlying message. Just give yourself a chance, because it will get better.

"It makes me hurt to wake up every day to a wrist blood covered shirt, why can't I pay for someone to please take today away?"

'Stubborn' is incredibly short, and more could have been done with it. The outro is nearly as long as the song, being one minute and twenty seconds. If the song was a minute or two longer due to an added verse or chorus, it would be a lot stronger. The use of synthesizers makes it sound very clean cut and adds an edge to it in comparison a lot of upcoming indie guitar bands out there at the moment, bringing about an Alt J, MGMT and the XX kind of feeling. It's a thought-provoking song but I feel like I just need more, the outro is just too long in comparison to the length of the song.