Americana duo The Mastersons, aka Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, address the current state of the nation with their new song "Spellbound," premiering today with Billboard. They discuss the sentiments behind the track in an exclusive Billboard interview.
"Before we wrote the title track ["No Time For Love Songs"], we were thinking about 'What kind of record do you want to come out in the spring of 2020, a pivotal time for us as a nation and with so much going on in the world,'" Masterson tells the magazine. "So we started with that song, which is sort of tongue-in-cheek, and then just kept going. We tried to use our voice in a galvanizing way. We wanted to write something thought provoking but not polarizing, 'cause I think people largely want the same things -- a roof over their heads, food on their table, kids to be healthy. We just may have vastly different ideas of how to get there." Whitmore adds, "I think that, honestly, there are so many powers that be that are dividing us. If you actually sit down and talk to somebody, even if they're on the other side of the fence as you, you still have an awful lot in common, more than we have differences."Listen to "Spellbound" below.
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