Ways to Go

Album: Spreading Rumors (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • The first single from Grouplove's Spreading Rumors album is a feel-good anthem that had made regular appearances on the band's setlists prior to its release. Frontman Christian Zucconi told KROQ's Kevin & Bean that the song "came magically" to the band during the album's recording session in an "old Motown house" in the Hollywood Hills. "We just kinda ran with it the night it came together," he added, "and really got excited about it and it just kinda surprised us."
  • The song's music video re-imagines North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un as a kid, who after waking up one day and feeling Grouplove's love, is inspired to spread goodwill and end the violence in his home country. Naturally, the band didn't actually travel to North Korea to shoot the clip. "We shot it in this crazy house in Malibu, the Villa Leon, that's kind of defunct and falling apart, frontman Christian Zucconi told MTV News, "but they let us run around inside."

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  • Elmer H from Westville, Ok"Ways To Go" is a great hit song by Grouplove for 2013. The music and the vocals are outstanding by very talented musicians & vocalists. Wow! The way the song is constructed makes it so compelling & magnetic. When I first heard it on the radio I was impressed by the powerful vocals & the music dynamics. I am now a fan. Rock on, Grouplove!
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