"The Frog Prince" is a song performed and composed by Englishalternative rockbandKeane, released as the closing track on their second album, Under the Iron Sea. The song was composed in 2004 and first mentioned by Tim Rice-Oxley on the Strangers DVD. A demo version also features Rice-Oxley singing on the lead vocals.
Rice-Oxley explains the song on the band's 6th podcast:
(...)It was inspired by a conversation that Tom (Chaplin) and I were having in a slightly drunken state in a hotel in Toronto, and we were talking about someone in another band who we felt was a really talented songwriter and really intelligent and talented person, but we felt he was busy bad-mouthing us and every other band that was around it seemed. It was very frustrating to see him go from a cool great songwriter in a small indie band, to suddenly becoming this person who's playing the part of the arrogant rock star(...)
It has been suggested that the person described above is Razorlight's frontman, Johnny Borrell. On 18 October 2006, when Keane were playing at the Apollo Manchester, Tom Chaplin dedicated the song to Oasis member Liam Gallagher.
Musical structureedit
Regarded by Rice-Oxley himself as a "corny" song, it follows a medieval-fairytale soft progression, with an identic piano playing of that of "This Is the Last Time". Sixteen beats drumming are introduced with 10 seconds of playback. Rice-Oxley often creates an impromptu during live performances with the entry of the chorus at 1:31, that would lead piano going quicker and stronger, leaving the electric in the background sound. Bridge requires Rice-Oxley's vocals and distorted piano to complete, followed by the last verse which lies before the magical outro, created with the Yamaha CP60 Chaplin plays during gigs, a succession of F-G-F-G-A-Bb-G-F. The song fades with the normal piano and the musicbox-fairytale riff fading out.
External linksedit
Official website
November 07, 2023
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