Better Than Love
"Better Than Love" is the debut single by British synthpop duo Hurts from their debut album, Happiness. It was released on 23 May 2010 in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number fifty on the UK Singles Chart. It also charted in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The song was re-released as a double A-side with 'Illuminated' on 1 May 2011.
Music video
The music video was uploaded onto Hurts' official YouTube channel on 28 April 2010, following a trailer uploaded the day before. Their first professionally made music video, it features Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson in an audition hall surrounded by women dressed in similar attire to themselves. As Anderson plays piano, Hutchcraft watches the auditions in the reflection of the hall's mirror. The video was filmed in Bucharest, Romania, in Buftea studio along with Romanian actresses Laura Cosoi, Mădălina Ghiţescu, and others. Cosoi also starred in the video for their later song "Sunday".
Track listings
Better Than
"Better Than" is a song by John Butler Trio from their fourth studio album, Grand National. Produced by John Butler and Mario Caldato Jr., it was released in the United States on 20 February 2007 as an online single, the third single in Australia and the first overseas single from the album.
The EP includes two previously unreleased tracks recorded in the Grand National sessions, and a special radio mix version of "Better Than" from US sound man, Chris Lord-Alge. To this day, the radio mix version still receives moderate airplay from adult alternative stations.
The EP debuted at number sixteen in the ARIA Singles Chart on 3 September 2007. "Better Than" was also popular in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2007 being voted at #4 and appearing on the compilation CD.
On 31 July 2007 the song was performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Music video
An accompanying music video for "Better Than", which utilizes the "Chris Lord-Alge radio mix" has been released on YouTube on August 1, 2007. In this video, members of the John Butler Trio band perform the song while on animated posters and performing on various spots of the streets with various pedestrians and skateboarders going by. Throughout, 2 messages (which reiterate the lyrical content in the song itself) are shown in a style of graffiti saying "The best things in life...aren't things!" and "Art changes people... people change the world."
Podcasts:
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by Sherina
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by Griffin House
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by Babybird
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by Hurts
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by Hayley Kiyoko
Better Than Love
by: SherinaSeemed impossible, seemed absurd
I didn't even know you before
Kept my distance, closing in
I don't mind caressing your skin
What did you say, what did you do?
Somehow, I feel I'm enchanted by you
Flying high on a mountain high
Suddenly you look as bright as the sky
Something old, something new
Something I didn't thought could be true
Have I forgotten, or have I never
Felt like this, as light as a feather
Not interested in love,
but I'm attracted to you
I hope that you feel the same way too
A little too fast but way too long
Though I'm not sure where I belong
What did you say, what did you do?
Somehow, I feel I'm enchanted by you
Flying high on a mountain high
Suddenly you look as bright as the sky
Something old, something new
Something I didn't thought could be true
Love's too strong and a bit cliché
For now this is enough, I've got a long way
Something old, something new
Something I didn't thought could be true
I'm afraid to ask but I need to know
Would you want me to stay?
Or would you want me to go?
These are my feelings...
(These are my...
I hope you'll understand... (understand...)
feelings...)
It might not be much,
but it's more than I can spend....
What did you say, what did you do?
Somehow, I feel I'm enchanted by you
Flying high on a mountain high
Suddenly you look as bright as the sky
Something old, something new
Something I didn't thought could be true
Have I forgotten, or have I never
Felt like this, as light as a feather
Not interested in love,
but I'm attracted to you
I hope that you feel the same way too
A little too fast but way too long