“My Stupid Heart” by Walk off the Earth
Walk Off the Earth is an indie act from Canada that has been around since 2006. As far as singles go, their debut outing, “Somebody That I Used to Know” (2012), made a significant amount of noise internationally, but the band has yet to replicate that type of standard chart success.
However, since then they have dropped one album, “Sing It All Away” (2015) which managed to chart in Canada, the US and across Europe. But for the most part, this act’s success has been relegated to its homeland up north, and even in that regard they haven’t experienced much chart-wise since the onset of the 2020s.
That is, it would seem, until the release of “My Stupid Heart”, a product of Golden Carrot Records, on 27 January 2023, as this song performed notably well on the social-media circuit, most importantly, in the grand scheme of the music industry these days, going viral on TikTok.
In fact it did so well that in March an official remix of the song was issued, though that time around as a collaboration alongside a bigger name in the game in American singer Lauv.
The Team behind “My Stupid Heart”
Walk Off the Earth is a five-piece band consisting of vocalists Gianni “Luminati” Nicassio and Sarah Blackwood, backed by three additional multi-instrumentalist Joel Cassady, Tokyo Spears and Adam Michael.
It’s Luminati, Blackwood and Spears who are credited with writing this song alongside Michael Matosic, Jake Torrey and LostBoy. Also Luminati, who, to reiterate, plays a number of instruments himself, produced “My Stupid Heart” with Tokyo Spears.
The Lyrics
The way Walk Off the Earth has described this track is as a nostalgic love song, in a manner of speaking. In other words, it’s as if we human beings are creatures of, as their explanation inferred, “familiarity and comfort”.
And what that means in context is that sometimes we may desire to go back to an ex, having forgotten what it was that drove us away from them to begin with. But upon reuniting, we’re promptly reminded as to why things initially fell apart.
And so it is, more or less, with this narrative. As presented, the problem that Gianni and Sarah, who portray exes, are facing is basically premised on them maintaining a friendship after their romance has officially ended.
They’re both guilty of this in a manner of speaking, in that the latter has the tendency to keep reaching out to the former, who has already concluded that he should not entertain her communications but does nonetheless.
As relayed, that then inevitably results in the two of them hooking up. Or put otherwise, Sarah’s “stupid heart” is manifested in her trying to keep this romance alive. And Gianni’s is such that despite still reeling from ‘all the pain they’ve been through’, it’s as if his emotional memory is erased once he hears from her.
“My stupid heart don’t know
I’vе tried to let you go
So many times bеfore
Then wound up at your door
My stupid heart—Too late
Already on my way
If we go down in flames
Again, then you can blame my stupid heart”
So by the looks of things, for now the vocalists are going to have to deal with this breakup-then-makeup type of scenario. They’re both well aware that these days, they’re engaged in more of a serial-fling kind of situation than a steady romance. But since they obviously retain strong feelings for one another, it appears this is how things will continue, to both of their chagrins, into the foreseeable future.
