Songfacts®:

• "There's Always Gonna Be Something" is a sort of musical sigh: resigned, wise, and oddly reassuring. Because, of course, there is always going to be something: Trouble, joy, chaos, clarity. Sometimes everything at once. That's life and the best you can do is sing through it.
  
  "'There's Always Gonna Be Something' is a song that a lot of people can relate to today," Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones told NME. "Everybody is always looking for a clear deck, a clean table, but there's always something coming onto it whether that's personal, social or political."
• "There's Always Gonna Be Something" came together in a serendipitous way.
  
  "That song had been written for a while, the verses and the poetic lines: 'Bayonet tongue of silence. Whispering just to remind us,'" Jones told NME. "But then I had that chorus line written on a piece of paper on my desk at the studio and I didn't think it would fit but then it juxtaposed quite well, almost like an old Rolling Stones title. It was quite a happy accident, joining the two ideas together."
• Directed by Rhory Danniell (Ghost, Christy), the music video was shot at Hampshire's Broadlands Estate. We see Stereophonics performing together in a picturesque, united setting.
• "There's Always Gonna Be Something" is the second track on Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait, an eight-song album produced by Kelly Jones. The album title was inspired by a phrase one of Jones' film lecturers used to scribble on his pages; he's had in the back of his mind for a long time.
  
  "It's basically an arc of a story I've probably used in setlists and stuff like that," Jones told NME. "You tell people a funny story, then you do something quite moving, and so on. The title has kind of a subliminal underbelly in a lot of the stuff I've done and it's just reared its head I guess."
• Make 'em Laugh debuted at #1 in the UK, giving Stereophonics their ninth chart-topper. Only The Beatles (15) and The Rolling Stones (14) among British bands have more.