Thelma & Louise is a 1991 motion picture directed by Ridley Scott where best friends Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) and Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) go on a road trip to escape their dreary lives. Bastille songwriter and frontman Dan Smith is a big movie buff, and he based this song around the film and its escapist theme.
Skipping town, down to Mexico Lipstick on, in the Thunderbird Bastille starts off the song by referencing Louise's 1966 Ford Thunderbird convertible. A replica of the car provides the backdrop for the music video.
The rest of the song is a meditation on "days like these," where you want to get away from your boring modern life. Smith said he set out to write a love letter to Thelma & Louise, feminism and escapism. "Throwing off the shackles of a life that you may be frustrated by," he said. "I think a lot of people feel a lot of the time, particularly during the pandemic the idea of just wanting to be in your mind somewhere totally different."
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