I saw The Script perform at The Fillmore a few weeks back. Attending the concert with friends who were fans, my familiarity with the band’s music extended only from their brilliant radio hit, “Breakeven,” to Kris Allen’s cover of “Live Like We’re Dying.” So whether The Script played their new single, “For The First Time,” that night, I couldn’t tell you, but these boys from Dublin are definitely an energetic, gracious bunch and put on a good show (no less than Paul McCartney agrees).
“For The First Time” is the initial stateside taste of The Script’s sophomore set, Science & Faith. The album was released overseas in September, but isn’t scheduled to reach stores on these shores until January 18. The Irish rock trio’s song is a response to how the terrible economy has forced couples to make do with less, discovering what’s really important in the process. Says singer-songwriter Danny O’Donoghue, “It’s going to back to an old thing of drinking cheap bottles of wine, having dinner on the floor, nothing but candlelight, and it’s like they are meeting each other for the first time.”
The music video takes a slightly different spin on the theme — more geography than economy. Eve Hewson, Bono’s daughter, stars as a young woman struggling to adjust to life in the Big Apple with her boyfriend, both Dublin transplants. Watching the clip, it’s a total mystery as to why she chose to make the trip across the Atlantic with him in the first place since she’s all mopey-dopey about it. But whatever, “For The First Time” is a soaring good tune on its own terms (even if it does rip the chugging-guitar bit from Coldplay’s “The Scientist”):
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