Stars is the first single released from Switchfoot's fifth album Nothing Is Sound. It was the #1 most added song on Modern Rock Radio and has climbed as high as number sixteen on the US Modern Rock chart leading the song to be certified gold as a digital single[1]. On Nothing Is Sound this song is the second track. According to song writer Jon Foreman, "Stars" is about perspective, a song about stepping back in the midst of chaos and looking at the stars; the idea of anti-entropy, implying there must be something keeping the world together. "The first verse looks at things from Descartes perspective, pinning the center of the universe on the individual. 'Maybe I've been the problem,' maybe I'm overcast, falling apart, etc... The second verse talks about our world from the perspective of the stars looking down on earth from the eternal dance of gravity and motion."[2] Despite these deep lyrics, Jon says he likes the song best for its guitar riffs.
Music videos
The music video for this song was filmed at Universal Studios mostly underwater.[3] A second, less formal video was also released, which consists mostly of a live performance at the Santa Monica Pier in California.
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