Back To The Future is a track of the new album by Bastille, Give Me The Future. As these two titles suggest, the whole album has futuristic themes. I really like it and I really wanted to create an art piece based on one of the songs.
Back To The Future caught my attention, cause it seems to be named after the movie. I’m not into movies, hardly know any, but Back To The Future is a really fun one about a mad professor and a kid travelling through time. The song, too, is very fun, a tune to dance to. It stood out to me for some reason, I just really fell in love with it listening to Give Me The Future in full.
One of the main subjects of the album is lucid dreaming. I remember back in school me and my friend tried to get lucid dreams, but my attempts seemed so futile I gave up quite quickly. I’m quite jealous of people who have the perseverance to get there, but I think it’s not for me. I have little control over my brain when I’m awake – how would I control what it does when I sleep?
I get weird dreams sometimes, never graphic or outright scary, but twisted and subtly disturbing. But I still like dreaming. Most nights I don’t remember my dreams, but often when I do they’re fun – my dreams don’t make sense, they’re actually ridiculous. A phenomenon I’ve always been interested in is that when I dream of people, the face I see doesn’t usually match the person I know them to be. I’m really bad at remembering faces, and I’m pretty sure it’s heavily related to me not working with the correct face in my dreams.
Close your eyes and melt away
Back To The Future
Falling asleep, for me, is letting my brain wander about. My brain is super active at all times, and when I allow it to roam freely I fall asleep fairly quickly. That’s why the line ‘Close your eyes and melt away’ had to be the essence of my art piece. It’s exactly what falling asleep is like to me, and I know it’s not the same for everyone.
Drawing things that melt is really fun, so a literal approach was absolutely what I was going to do. But when i started sketching, I started with a tiny sketch of the main characters of the movie Back To The Future. Bastille, with the singer’s movie obsession, have made me a little interested in watching movies more attentively, to see them as more than evening entertainment that would be forgotten within a week. So I wanted to incorporate my favourite movies in the piece, and even though Back To The Future isn’t one of them I couldn’t leave it out.
I’m enjoying the album a lot a few listens in. Time to honour the band’s work with a new art piece.
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