Northlight's New Single Rocks With "A Celebration of Humanity"

Born straight out of the music wonder of Sweden, NORTHLIGHT is the small-town indie pop band from Karlstad, with an empire of fans that stretches all across the globe.

The brand-new song ‘A Celebration of Humanity’ will be released on all platforms on May 10th along with its photo mosaic artwork consisting of 532 individual photos sent in by the band’s followers. “We wanted to create a feeling of affinity and togetherness, not only musically or lyrically, but in the project as a whole, so we asked our followers to help us out with the artwork and the result was beyond amazing”, says the band’s lead singer Victor Bergh.

Following the single release, its accompanying music video will be released in June along with a mini-documentary featuring the making of the project as a whole.

The phrase ‘A Celebration of Humanity’ is originally a quote from the 2017 Oscar nominated musical ‘The Greatest Showman’, starring Hugh Jackman as the American showman P. T. Barnum. By the end of the movie, when the circus has just burned down, Barnum (Hugh Jackman) sits on the stairs of what was his life’s work, when a previously constant critic (Paul Sparks) joins him in the ashes left behind by the fire. They start talking and after a while the critic says:

“Putting folks of all kinds on stage with you…

All colors, shapes, sizes…

Presenting them as equals…

Why, another critic might have even called it

‘A Celebration of Humanity’”

However, though the phrase from the movie did play a role in the inspiration of the song, the movie and the song are not related story wise. Instead, the song is according to the band about a culturally unthinkable relationship, a love story between two people that couldn’t be more different, but whose love in return is a proof of how very insignificant our differences really are: “We knew quite early that we wanted this song to contain something more than just melodies and lyrics. We wanted to ignite a mindset and even if only for 3 minutes and 11 seconds, erase everything that pulls us apart as humans. It’s about celebrating our differences and realizing that love truly is boundless”

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