Ben&Ben Drops New International Single “The Ones We Once Loved”
While love is patient and love is kind, that doesn't give an assurance that it will not expire nor fade away. As the whole country welcomes the cozy season of "Ber" months, here comes the multi-talented OPM band Ben&Ben back with another soon-to-be-hit single, “The Ones We Once Loved", under Sony Music.
“It's a song that owns up to one's faults, makes proper apologies, but also expresses hurt, as breakups are often two-way things,” says the band in an official statement. “It’s also one of the hardest songs we’ve written, because it requires the writer to forgive himself for his past and own up to his faults and mistakes. The painstaking process towards that state, the cycles of anxiety and catharsis that the writer went through, and the eventual expression of all of that in the form of this song, as an encapsulation of such a heavy journey, is what makes this song stand out among our other songs.”
Having amassed
more than a billion streams and a total of 3.5 million listeners on Spotify, Ben&Ben
continues to make generation-defining statements with heartfelt tunes that
resonate on a universal level. From the success of their groundbreaking work
on the sophomore album, Pebble House, Vol. 1: Kuwaderno, the band is scheduled for upcoming North American tour, along with another international release of "The Ones We Once Loved."
“The
Ones We Once Loved” is a quietly startling confessional that
sounds emotionally impactful even in its apparent weightlessness. Written by
Ben&Ben’s very own Paolo Benjamin and produced by Johnoy Danao and Jean Paul Verona, this new song builds its staircase to
somewhere personal and intimate, offering a unique perspective on love,
forgiveness, and breakup. It also takes a deceptively stripped-down
approach in terms of musicality, but careful not to lose the earnestness that
defined their recent hits.
According to the folk-pop outfit, they wanted to
keep the arrangement as bare and as transparent as possible while still
maintaining a certain depth, weight, and storytelling within instrumentation.
“Supporting the
vocals is the staple piano sound, as one would hear when being sung the humblest
and sincerest of songs, slowly followed by more and more melodic instruments as
the singer opens up and exposes vulnerability,” the band explains the sonic
motif behind the release. “At the end of the day, we wanted to make an
arrangement that would provide no barrier to taking in each meaning of every
word of a song that has so much to say.”
Backed by rich
but sparsely layered instrumentation, the song, particularly its chorus,
captures “what so many of us are often too afraid or unprepared to say after a
difficult breakup.” Hoping that listeners would take responsibility in making
amends with one’s self, and the person on the other end of the grieving
process, the band shares, “We are hoping that
this song somehow helps people bridge that gap and feel the importance of
really letting go through a multi-faceted forgiveness: one of the other, and of
the self.”
“The Ones We Once Loved” serves as Ben&Ben’s
official single in support of their Philippine send-off concert and North
America/Canada Tour in 2022. It also marks their first collaboration with
globally renowned photographer Geloy Concepcion, whose work was recently
featured in Vogue Magazine, and other notable
publications and exhibits worldwide.
Earlier this
week, Ben&Ben encouraged their fans to use the hashtags #BenandBen #BenandBenTOWOL
#TOWOL and #TheOnesWeOnceLoved as part of its Twitter activation campaign
promoting the international release of “The Ones We Once Loved.” The hashtags revealed official Ben&Ben Twitter
emojis, and unlocked a special preview of the song last August 24, 2022.
Ben&Ben’s “The Ones We Once Loved” is out now on all digital
music platforms worldwide via Sony Music Entertainment.
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