New Music Review - ‘Bus Stop’ by There’s a Tuesday

The cover for Bus Stop - partly filmed in the Christchurch Metro bus yard.

When There’s a Tuesday release a new single, you know that it is going to be the ultimate hype for the weeks ahead and with their latest drop, Bus Stop, it is proving to be just that, even just days after coming out.

The track dropped on Friday at midnight after the band signed to Benee’s record label, Olive Records, recently. The band have been teasing this for well over a month and the song has been taking over the airways and everyone’s playlists since it was made public. To say that the amount of people that have shared the song on Instagram has been insane… Well, that would be an understatement actually. Literally every story on Friday was this song and it is easy to see why. These four certainly know how to write catchy tunes and do it well, making them fun, but also exceptionally relatable all rolled into one.

Bus Stop opens with some really upbeat music, which is kept up throughout the entire song, making this one of the catchiest pop songs that you will hear in 2021.

Let’s put it this way: if you aren’t either a) sing-shouting this song in your car or b) crying on the way home (bad pun), then you are most definitely doing it all wrong, or you haven’t actually listened to Bus Stop yet. In that case, are you doing okay? The song is super memorable and it is an actual bop for all generations. I mean, you could recommend this song to your Grandma with a bad hip and I can guarantee that she would get up and be dancing with ease because it is genuinely that good.

Having a bad day? Put on Bus Stop. Having a good day? Put on Bus Stop. Needing a road trip song? Put on Bus Stop. Simple as that!

The video is pretty neat, too. Filmed throughout different areas of Christchurch, some of it looks as though it has been done in front of a green screen, when in fact, the lights of New Regent Street and the central city are actually far from being fake, they are real. I love the fact that they have incorporated their home town into the video - it makes it even more special and gives that personal touch from the band to the viewers.

Bus Stop could be taken many ways through different levels of emotions. It really depends on the listener onto how you interpret it. All I know is that There’s a Tuesday always try and make their songs happy, no matter if it’s a serious track or not.

Bus Stop has some really unique beats and the way that both Minnie and Nat’s voices blend in with Joel and Gus’ instruments makes it even that much more superb, it’s hard to fault them on anything they release - each body of work they put out somehow always blows my mind.

They just work so well as a band and after seeing them live a fair few times, I can see the relationship bonds they have formed, which makes them quite a distinct set of musicians whose music will be played throughout history. There’s a Tuesday aren’t going from any of our brains any time soon and I, for one, am very glad about this.

For this reason, the song gets an indefinite 10/10 for me. Available to listen to now on all platforms, this is one piece of ear candy you will need to pop up right now because everyone is talking about it and you don’t want to be the odd one out, do you? Now, go cry on the ride home over this song!

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