Fascination In The Dark

Album: released as a single (2025)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Fascination in the Dark" is a 2025 single by Vance Joy, released as a kind of twin or partner track to his song "Divine Feelings." While "Divine Feelings" is about the lightning bolt of meeting and falling for someone in Barcelona, "Fascination" concerns the hours immediately after the lightning, when you're faced with that push–pull of possibility.

    Maybe I'll love you, maybe I'll stay
    Maybe we'll hold on, maybe we'll break


    It's the emotional sequel to "Riptide," except there's no dentist's office and his love interest isn't a Michelle Pfeffier-esque blonde.
  • Joy wrote both "Fascination In The Dark" and "Divine Feelings" about meeting with his wife, Selen Us, in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter in 2019.
  • Vance Joy and longtime collaborator Dave Bassett (DAUGHTRY, Shinedown) create a cinematic, stadium-sized rock track with horns and a big singalong chorus, built to work live. It continues the warm, romantic, open-hearted territory Joy is known for, but it's set firmly in a late-night, bar-room scenario rather than a sunlit, folky setting.
  • The video, directed by W.A.M. Bleakley, takes an off-kilter approach: instead of wine in Barcelona, we get gas-station outlaw romance in the Australian outback. It stars New Zealand actress Erana James and Australian actor Tom Wilson as a modern Bonnie and Clyde, and it ends precisely where the "Divine Feelings" video starts.

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