Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The Briefing

Bad news, popstars: Shane Filan has used up all the metaphors

  • December 20, 2013
  • Popjustice

pj_593

As Luminumford & Sheerans-type pop songs go, Shane Filan's new single is great. Also, it's got a video which is both prescient (he assumes the role of a wedding singer) and high on drama (he gets stuck behind a tractor).

But it's not all good news. Think of all the great metaphors and similes we've had in 2013.

  • "I got the eye of the tiger." (Katy Perry did not actually have a tiger's eye.)
  • "You loved me back to life." (Celine Dion's corpse was not actually re-energised by someone shagging it.)
  • "I came in like a wrecking ball." (Miley Cyrus was not actually swinging around oh hang on)

Well the next year will bring us no similar joys, because Shane Filan's new single uses up pop music's allegory quota for at least the next twelve months.

First off, the single is called 'Knee Deep In My Heart'.

KNEE
DEEP
IN
MY
HEART

That's an unusual name for a song isn't it?

Moving on, the song's conceit involves Shane being a sort of 'love detective' who catches his lover "red handed, knee deep in my heart" and there's also some stuff about going under­cover, having alibis, doing time, perfect crimes, having no defence, being guilty as charged, leaving "fin­ger­prints on my soul" and so on. There's also chat about Shane spinning round upside down in the dark (which sounds a bit S&M‑dungeony to be frank), life running past him etc etc etc.

It's quite something. See for yourself in the video, but be warned, the song is dan­ger­ously catchy and we've watched this five times in a row already.

  • Shane Filan
Previous Article
  • The News

Selena Gomez has cancelled her tour of Asia and Australia in order to be a better person

  • December 20, 2013
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Next Article
  • Videos

Sam Bailey — 'Skyscraper'

  • December 20, 2013
  • Brad O'Mance
Have a read
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • 100 Questions with Sky Ferreira
  • Robbie Williams interview
  • Lady Gaga interview: "I looked to my past and my faith to find bravery in myself"
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • 2
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 3
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 4
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 5
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • 6
    New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.