"Move", the first track from LA indie pop quartet Saint Motel's (lead vocalist, guitarist and piano player A/J Jackson, lead guitarist Aaron Sharp, bassist Dak Lerdamornpong and drummer Greg Erwin) second studio album (2016) certainly works like a command for listeners to shake themselves out of stasis. Beginning with energetic hand claps and vowel dragging ('This man, this dutiful man has got this sense of devo-o-otion/ One look, one touch of a hand can set the spiral in mo-o-o-tion'), it soon accelerates into a sweeping chorus that consists of repetitions of 'gotta get up', chants of the title and loud horns:
'I want it, can't have itOh, I can hardly stand itOh, what's a man to do?[Chorus]Gotta get up, I gotta get upMoveGotta get up, I gotta get upMoveGotta get up, I gotta get upMoveNa na na na na na na nowGotta get up, I gotta get upMoveGotta get up, I gotta get upMoveGotta get up, I gotta get upMoveNa na na na na na na now'
Lyrics: Genius
The reason for all this urgent locomotion is presumably a devoted husband's inconvenient, irrepressible attraction to a yong woman: 'This girl, this beautiful girl with eyes the size of the o-o-ocean/ This man, this dutiful man has got these mixed up emo-o-otions'. The track's swift melodies, distanced verses and frantic choruses provide no narrative closure for this predicament (does he act on his desires - or does he run away in the opposite direction?), but listeners on the dance floor, Uber drivers and FIFA 17 gamers are unlikely to stop dancing long enough to care.
Set in the aptly fast-paced world of broadcast journalism, the accompanying music video does little for the narrative, choosing instead to evoke the song's infectious momentum. Those with a Virtual Reality Headset can immerse themselves even further by experiencing the song's 360 degree visualizer.
