If I could afford just one therapeutic method for the rest of my life, I’d leave it up to the professionals, and I’d hire a lion tamer to visit my apartment every morning. Of course, this is a team effort, so both the tamer and his dangerous feline would have to make it all the way up the stairs, into my living room, and proceed to get one’s head in the mouth of the other. I’d hand one of them a bill and tell them I’ll look forward to seeing the same show tomorrow morning.
Much in the same way that I get courage by seeing someone whose level of daringness entirely exceeds my own, so do millions of people glance admiringly at rock performers. It seems incredible that someone could ever find the confidence to get in front of people, sing their song, and if they’re really up for it, proclaim to the world that they’re free and there’s nothing that anyone can do to change that.
And, while you get the sense that the members of Freya and the Vikings might just be regular people like you and me, some of the time, you feel that, clearly, this changes by the time that they’re ready to perform a song like “Eyeliner.” When that song starts, they become superheroes, Viking marauders, and thrill-seeking philosophers all rolled into one.
Really, “Eyeliner” is a song about the very potential of rock n’ roll to be a healing force against broken hearts and bad romances, about the very lure of this kind of music.
It’s a tune where the melodies are kept clean and sharp, the hard-rock riffs bring to mind radio-metal of the 1980s, and where the three vocalists come together excellently for the song’s chorus.
Best of all, you know that it’ll make someone who hears this get the confidence to get on stage themselves, or, at the very least, get out of their apartment in the morning. Freya and the Vikings are someone’s lion tamers.
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