After a few years out of the spotlight, following her second album, All I Need (2016), Foxes is certainly back in a big way! She just debuted her latest single ‘Friends in the Corner’, which follows two other releases in 2020. She also shared a video directed by Joshua Trigg, which depicts nothing less than the euphoria of great friendship. You can watch it here!
‘Friends in the Corner’ follows ‘Woman’ (July) and ‘Love Not Loving You’ (May) – the latter is similarly a pop anthem, while ‘Woman’ is a stripped back but powerful ballad. Any news of a new album is currently being kept secret by the singer, but these three singles suggest that we should expect big things from it!
The video for ‘Friends in the Corner’ is absolutely an ode to friendship – to campfires and hitchhiking and making up dance routines in a bus shelter. Foxes cameos as a tattoo artist, as Zara Gabiddon and Natasha Trigg, who play two best friends (with great chemistry) do all of the things that you find yourself doing on a day where it’s a bit rainy and nobody has any plans so you go camping and get matching tattoos.
At the same time, you start to recognise that the montage is tinged with tragedy; the whole thing is certainly about not taking anything, or more importantly anyone, for granted. Foxes spoke about this undertone to the video, saying: “It was a weekend away with a close group of friends and I considered them to be strong and together, but for some reason at that time they all showed a vulnerable side I’d never seen before.”
She continued, “It might have been the age we were at, but everyone’s hidden struggles came to the forefront and it made me realise the older we get sometimes the more fragile we become. It really hit home that we shouldn’t take each other for granted and we’ve really got to look out for our friends.”
It’s about friendship, love, loss, and the recognition of how impermanent life is. In a world where connection has become so challenging we need to remember to keep each other close. xx
— Foxes (@iamfoxes) September 2, 2020
For the most part, the video’s darker tone feels far away from the euphoric pop of the song itself, but you can find it the refrain of “I took it all for granted / I lived it like a dream.” Regardless, though, there’s nothing better, really, than a pop anthem about strong friendships. It’s a bit like if ‘Dancing On My Own’ was about your best girlfriends.
Following the video’s release, Foxes posted on Instagram to thank her fans for their support. She wrote that their “wonderful comments … brought tears to [my] eyes”. At the same time, she shared the artwork for the single, which features Foxes in some very cool silver makeup. This follows the theme of the previous two singles, also close ups of Foxes’ face in more great editorial makeup. The cohesion of all of this, and the quality of the two singles, all hints that something good is coming!
Until then, you can enjoy ‘Friends in the Corner’, ‘Woman’ and ‘Love Not Loving You’ to your heart’s content, and maybe even dip back into 2016’s All I Need, before what is undoubtedly going to be a pop sensation, dance-floor-filling, empowering comeback – some time soon, we hope!
