Hear Jane’s Addiction’s Melancholy New Single ‘True Love’
Jane’s Addiction has launched a brand new track known as “True Love,” their second of 2024 to characteristic the reunited basic lineup and their first since imploding onstage and canceling their reunion tour.
You can hearken to the track under.
“True Love” arrives roughly two months after the raucous “Imminent Redemption.” It’s a wistful, melancholy monitor anchored by clear guitars and delicate drums. “When I first felt true love, I was very young / I tried to describe it to my friends,” Perry Farrell sings, “You’re floating in something that’s way over your head / Wading in the waters of true love.”
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Dave Navarro Seemingly Acknowledges End of Jane’s Addiction
The track additionally drops lower than per week after Farrell punched and shoved guitarist Dave Navarro throughout Jane’s Addiction’s Friday present in Boston. Farrell needed to be escorted offstage by crew members, and the band subsequently canceled the remainder of its reunion tour and introduced a hiatus. Various members have since issued statements apologizing to their followers, tourmates and one another.
Navarro additionally discovered similarities between the plight of Jane’s Addiction and that of a famend Nineteenth-century poet. “I was re-reading Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and it occurred to me that there is a strong parallel between his work and that of our own,” the guitarist wrote on Instagram. “The leaves represent the cycle of life and death, yet he continued to work on the body of poems until his own death in 1892. Perhaps he, like us, was unable to fully understand his own work as he continuously tried to re-write, add and expand upon it, willing away his own work’s cycle of life … just as we have.”
Navarro concluded: “Perhaps it’s simpler to recognize when something is gone and learn from the magical lesson of grief rather than avoid it and remain in a consistent state of dissatisfaction.”
