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According to the ancient Greeks there were eight different concepts of love: firstly, there's Eros (sexual passion), then there's Philia (deep friendship), Ludus (playful love), Agape (love for everyone), Pragma (longstanding love), Philautia (love of the self), Storge (family love) and finally Mania (obsessive love). On Omer Netzer's new single, 'Low High,' he's singing about some sort of combination of the first and the last of those concepts as he celebrates all the opposites attracting and making it work.
"Kissing turned to cursing turned to fighting / Takes a real cowgirl to break this stubborn mule," he sings in his gruff drawl, as his back up party band take us to church to testify with a wild and uplifting country funk spiritual.
"I grew up on this sound — on the kind of music that doesn’t just entertain, it exposes," says Netzer. "This song is about the kind of love that swings between chaos and calm, between slamming doors and whispered apologies. Two opposites who burn each other up but keep coming back for more."
"I go low you go high / We land somewhere in the middle / I been wrong you been right / Baby let's just keep it simple / You’re sweet ice tea I’m whiskey neat / From Broken hearts to diamond rings," he sings, describing a fiery tomato-tomahto relationship that he just can't seem to break free from. "Know I wouldn’t change it for a thing."
"This ain’t just a song, it’s a confession," he explains. "A story about how love can wreck you and still feel like the only thing worth holding onto. If you’ve ever loved someone like hell, then you already know what this is."
Written by Omer Netzer, David Messy and Kenny Sharp, 'Low High' packs more ideas into under three minutes than most artists fit into a whole album and the result is so exhilarating you'll be out of breath just listening to it.
Sometimes the way couples fight is more important than whether they fight, and maybe there's hope for all those lovers who spend more time in battle than they do in bed. No need to call the whole thing off just yet.
Listen to 'Low High' below
'Low High' is out now on White Knuckle Productions
