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Wikipedia article


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"'Wonderful Life'" is a song by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon featuring Cradle of Filth vocalist Dani Filth. Produced by the band's vocalist Oliver Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish, it is featured on the group's 2019 sixth studio album 'Amo'. The track was released as the second single from the album on 21 October 2018.

Promotion and release



The track was teased by Oliver Sykes on an Instagram live stream. After searching the tease on Shazam, fans discovered the name for the leaked song as "WONDERFUL LIFE" featuring Cradle of Filth vocalist Dani Filth as a guest. After it, Sykes posted a video on his Instagram account announcing the "Wonderful Life" release date to be 21 October on Radio 1.

Composition and lyrics



"Wonderful Life" has been described as a nu metal and hard rock song. The song shows a troubled narrator barely holding on to life but constantly referring to it as wonderful. The narrator, who seems to hold a dark and depressing view of the world around him, still enjoys the mundane and often gloomy aspects of everydayness. Sykes said of the song's lyrics:

Music video



The music video for "Wonderful Life" was released on the same day as the single was streamed. Directed by Theo Watkins, the video shows clips of the band doing everyday, mundane things. Dani Filth is seen wearing heavy corpse paint and sci-fi-esque stage clothing while eating cereal and shopping at the supermarket. Jordan Fish is shown playing with his son, Oliver Sykes is having his water boiler fixed and sitting on the sofa with his dog, Matt Kean is out running, Lee Malia is seen washing a camper van and mowing his lawn, and Matt Nicholls is shown walking his dog. It features appearances from Fish's real life son, Eliot Fish, and Sykes', Nicholls', and Fish's dogs Luna, Bud, and Bailey.

Personnel



Credits adapted from Tidal.

'Bring Me the Horizon'

* Oliver Sykes lead vocals, production, composition

* Lee Malia guitars, composition

* Matt Kean bass, composition

* Matt Nicholls drums, composition

* Jordan Fish keyboard, synthesizers, programming, percussion, backing vocals, production, composition, programming

'Additional musicians'

* Dani Filth guest vocals

* Lewis Reid contrabass

* Alexander Verster contrabass

* Jessica Price contrabass

* Parallax Orchesta contrabass, strings

* Gavin Kibble cello

* Rachael Lander cello

* Max Ruisi cello

* Madilyn Eve Cutter cello

* Choir Noir choir

* Oliver Hickie french horn

* Ross Anderson trombone

* Jane Salmon trombone

* Simon Dobson trumpet, strings

* Victoria Rule trumpet

* Anisa Arslanagic viola

* Benjamin Kaminski viola

* Mark Gibbs viola

'Additional personnel'

* Robbie Nelson engineering

* Peter Miles engineering

* Romesh Dodangoda engineering

* Alejandro Baima assistant engineering

* Conor Panayi assistant engineering

* Francesco Cameli assistant engineering

* Daniel Morris assistant engineering

* Ted Jensen mastering

* Rhys May mixing

* Dan Lancaster mixing

In popular culture



"Wonderful Life" is featured in the soundtrack for the video game 'WWE 2K20', as well as one of the theme songs for 'NXT TakeOver: WarGames (2018)'.

Charts



References



Category:2018 singles

Category:2018 songs

Category:Bring Me the Horizon songs

Category:RCA Records singles

Category:Songs about loneliness

Category:Songs written by Oliver Sykes

Category:Sony Music singles

Category:Nu metal songs

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