★SOUTH DAKOTA★ Paradise Fears - "Violet"

This is a thread about the SaS-news related to South Dakota





TV broadcaster/Radio station: KSDN-FM (TV/Radio broadcaster located in Aberdeen)

Musical format: Mainstream Rock




Artist: Paradise Fears

The TV-Radio Broadcaster, KSDN-FM, has now officially confirmed their announcement of their second artist. Making it the thirty-fourth official SaS #2-representant!

The submission has been brought out by the internal tastes from the TV/Radio Broadcaster's HoD and the SaS-creator!

Both of the Dakotas didn't made through the Final qualification and ended just in the Heat. We're now heading to the Southern one, where in the last edition the blues rock band Indigenous sang their song "Runaway", but fought to less and got an 11th place with 28 points. This has made the state feeling desperate after that and they decided to plug out the oldies and in with the new'ies!

In this particular, we have asked this college-based band, which genre points at the thematic mainstream formats of pop and rock, if they would like to give it a chance for South Dakota, and to promote their recently potent and rapidly-grown act of themselves by their own greatest of tracks, which have an influence to punk, emo and electronic. Both of the parties felt grateful to this decision, and so it was confirmed that this band with 6 members are ready to kick some butt and make an energic liveshow!

They are calling themselves 'Paradise Fears'. It's a group based on 6 high school-students, who were having an entirely self-taught process with a very steep learning curve! Hence the way they're coming and living in a small town of 3.000 people, the music scene over this is on a very low authority.
They kept their own way on how to book shows, tour, promote, record, heck everything that might seem unapproachable for a band of not going into a cookie-cutter career path.

But after what they've done on the current stage by splitting themselves in 3 teams and to make themselves a challenge to tour all around the US for creating fanbases, they've just having in mind to let all come in hand for the contest, Superstars & Stripes, where they can hopefully get a good result of their homestate and to make the people very proud!


Read more down below and click on the specific link if you want.

★ Biography ★ Discography ★ Photos ★




Song: "Violet"

While debuting with their studio album Yours Truly, they've been digging around the song choice of being the representing song from them, after selling 24.000+ records following several major pop-rock tours and promoting themselves to fans in lines.

For this instance, they'll put an effort from one of their rather 'unknown' tracks to promote it from the contest.

"Violet" was produced by Zack Odom and Kenneth Mount (aka ZK Productions), while written by the band themselves.

Yours Truly, the album, peaked #9 Billboard's Uncharted Chart, and generated a powerful and active digital following. This landed them tours with All Time Low, The Ready Set, The Cab, The Summer Set, and Forever the Sickest Kids. During the summer of 2012, the band sold out headlining shows in eight major US markets.


★ Lyrics ★

Say you love me when you’re out the door
Words are fake, your actions say so much more
Tonight I’m trying, to decipher these lies you’re denying but
You break my heart when you take my hand
Well listen, “baby can you please try to understand”
You’re not crying;
When you say it’s not working out, you’re lying

She’s bleeding confidence,
Just at my expense,
These shades of blue and red were always wrong, and
never right it seemed.
Your silhouetted thinkin’,
Has left these ringing chords in the end,
Now you get what you deserve -
a broken heart, a broken heart you can’t mend

Comatose on the ballroom floor
Your body’s broken, your mind just can’t handle more
You are dying to tell all these secrets you’re hiding but
Forget yourself when the music plays
Your favorite song’s been repeating for three straight days
You’re so blinding
You’re breaking me down with this body I’m eyeing

She’s bleeding confidence,
Just at my expense,
These shades of blue and red were always wrong,
and never right it seemed.
Your silhouetted thinkin’,
Has left these ringing chords in the end,
Now you get what you deserve -
a broken heart, a broken heart you can’t

I’ve been dying to get this right
But it’s just a losing fight
And it’s only a matter of time tonight
And I’ve been dying to get this right
But it’s just a losing fight
And it’s only a matter of time tonight

She’s bleeding confidence,
Just at my expense

She’s bleeding confidence,
Just at my expense,
These shades of violet were always wrong,
never right it seems
Your silhouetted thinkin’,
Has left these ringing chords in the end,
Now you get what you deserve -
a broken heart, a broken heart you can’t mend.