Heads up, Ben&Ben fans!
The award-winning Filipino band will drop their newest single, “Lifetime” this coming Thursday (June 4) via Sony Music.
Lifetime is a song about a missed opportunity because of the fear that things might end up badly.
Ben&Ben wrote the folk-pop ballad as a response to a fan’s comment on their hit song “Pagtingin” music video on YouTube, that garnered a lot of attention.
The fan, who goes by the alias of “Anne Jou,” shared her story of regretting not being able to express her feelings because she was afraid to lose their friendship.
“…instead of telling him what I actually felt, I hid and buried my feelings. And you know what happens to feelings that are buried? They grow. The like I felt for him became love. I wrote poems, songs. After 8 years, I attended his wedding [last] January. And guess what? The world is really overly-cruel. Before his wedding, he thanked me for being his best friend and told me that before he met the girl he got married to, he loved me first. For 5 years. But he was also scared of losing me so he just decided to keep it. I was shocked and I slightly had anger towards the world. We didn’t know that if only one of us dared to make a move, a lifetime was waiting for us. So people, while you can, please express how you really feel so that in the end you won’t regret anything.”
The nine-piece collective decided to make song inspired by the fan’s online confession — a proof of how powerful and moving words can be when shared from a place of earnestness and raw honesty.
Amidst the technical limitations and struggles in recording since the quarantine started, due to the pandemic, Ben&Ben pulled through and finished the song while stuck in their homes – using their instruments and studio software.
Mixed by veteran sound engineer JP Verona and mastered by Grammy Award-winning Leon Zervos, Ben&Ben’s Lifetime is a song that will make us recall all our “what ifs”.
Ben&Ben’s “Lifetime” will be released on all digital platforms worldwide on June 4 (12 midnight, Thursday).
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