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Garbage rely on contrasts in 2025. While the title of her new single “There’s no future in Optimism” is a completely different box. Namely because the bad should not win. Or as Shirley Manson himself expresses it according to the press release: “If we allow our fatalism or our negativity to win the upper hand, we will break up.”
And it also says from the 58-year-old Scottish: “In my case Los Angeles-it could be every city in which bad things happen. After the murder of George Floyd, one of the few things in my life that I would never like to have seen her, the shots of the kneeling policeman on George Floyd’s neck completely changed in Los Angeles, there was huge protests and a lot of uphill After that.
There is also a music video for the newly published piece – shot by Benjy Kirkman, who was already at the start as a cameraman at “Fast & Furious 10” and “Heartstopper”.
Listen and look in here in “There’s no future in Optimism”:
More about the new album
“There’s no future in Optimism” is the first single release from the new garbage album, which will be called “Let all that we imagine be the light” and will come out on May 30th.
Singers Shirley Manson lets the release say via the press release: “This album is about what it means to be alive and what it means to see your own destruction. It is hopeful. It is very tender in relation to what it means to be a person. The fragility of life. “