Love Song by Tom Odell becomes the Iranian anthem out of the blue

The endless loop of pop music is a phenomenon of our time. Old hits that have long disappeared from the “back catalogue” are suddenly making a comeback. A re-inacting of songs from the dusty record cabinet, so to speak. Sometimes this is done by using it as a score in series from streaming services such as Kate Bush (“Wuthering Heights”) or through remixes such as “Africa” ​​by the US MOR band Toto.

Now it has also caught UK cuddly bard Tom Odell. His hit “Another Love” from the otherwise only dimly present pop year 2012/2013 has now been flushed back into consciousness, of all things, by the current revolts against the mullah system in Iran.

At that time an eleventh place in the MediaControl singles segment – almost a decade later it has now reached ninth place in Germany. In other (European) countries the song ranks even higher in the music charts.

It’s the song lines “And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight/ But my hands been broken one too many times/ So I’ll use my voice, I’ll be so fucking rude/ Words they always win, but I know I ‘ll lose’, which were used in the course of the waves of student protests on the streets of Tehran and elsewhere as notes of solidarity with the murdered and enslaved demonstrators.

Carolin Kebekus also relied on “Another Love”

In many social networks, women who cut their hair in a solidarity note with Iranian women used the Odell track as a soundtrack. TV star Carolin Kebekus also played him when she organized and moderated a solidarity rally on the Cologne Cathedral.

The media ping-pong between analogue and digital carriers brings back tears like “Another Love” to hearts and minds. The British record industry’s Official Chart website puts it in statistical jargon: “Just outside the Top 10, Tom Odell’s 2012 single ‘Another Love’ is edging ever closer to its previous Number 10 peak. 10 years after release..”

The now 32-year-old musician takes care of his gold treasure, which will bring him hefty sales from the respective collecting societies as best he can. He already celebrated “Another Love” at Glastonbury in 2019. Now he honors the courageous women in Iran and elsewhere in all kinds of shows, without ever having intended to do so.

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