McFly - Lies

3 months ago 26th Aug 14:52

Released September 15

Following the phenomenal success of McFly’s album giveaway with the Mail on Sunday last month, the band release brand new song ‘Lies’ as a single on September 15th.

A mid-tempo rocker with a sleazy funk bassline and blasts of brass, Lies marks another step in the musical evolution of one of Britain’s most successful groups of the Noughties.

‘Lyrically, Lies is definitely the darkest song we’ve ever written,” says Tom Fletcher, who shares vocals on the track with Danny Jones. “It’s about a real bitch of a girl who is out for herself and doesn’t care who she uses to get what she wants.

We did have a girl in mind when we wrote it, but really, it’s an amalgam of several girls we have met along the way. We hope she burns in hell at the end. A real goodtime tune then!”

The hip-shaking Lies is McFly’s funkiest, most ambitious song to date and one of four new tracks that appear on the deluxe edition of new album Radio:Active, out in September.

In July, a 10-track version of Radio:Active was given away in a groundbreaking promotion with the Mail on Sunday that saw McFly become the first current chart act to follow in the footsteps of Prince’s revolutionary free album release.

In a single day, 2.4 million copies of Radio:Active arrived in homes throughout Britain. The mail on Sunday’s circulation jumped 300,000 above its average as fans flocked to hear the first McFly material since the band left their major label home to set up their own company, Super Records. On the day of it’s release, Radio:Active’s first single, One for the Radio entered the charts at No 2.

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