Emo Girl Forever: Pierce the Veil - Song for Isabelle

Isabelle hides, so I can't find my way. I'd give anything to carry on, and on and on the same way. Why!?

Album: Misadventures [4th album]
Recorded: Long Island, New York
Genre: Punk, Emo, Screamo
Album Release: May 13th 2016
Length: 4:51
Producer: Dan Korneff
Vocalist: Vic Fuentes [age 34]
Label: Fearless Records

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Live in 2016

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: 16,500,000 +
YouTube Music: 3,600,000 +

Credits & Gear

Bass, drums, guitar [x2], keyboard

Details

• Pierce the Veil is a Mexican-American band that was formed in 2006 by Vic Fuentes and his brother Mike Fuentes. When the band originally formed their members were Vic Fuentes, Mike Fuentes, Tony Perry and Jaime Preciado. Before forming Pierce the Veil, Tony and Jaime were in a hard metal band called 'Trigger My Nightmare' while the Fuentes brothers were in the emo group 'Before Today'.
  
  
• 'Song for Isabelle' is the last track on 'Misadventures' and carries a more upbeat vibe than the last tracks on their previous albums. I interpret it as a guy fretting over a distressed girl he deeply cares for but isn't romantically involved with. The clever juxtaposition of sombre lyrics beneath a lively instrumental makes the song particularly intriguing. The song is a about how a girl, who was a friend of the band, used to be full of life before she fell into a deep depression causing Vic Fuentes immense worry. It would be easy to miss the dark theme of the song on a casual listen.
  
  

  

  Vic Fuentes with Isabelle
  

  
  
• "Isabelle is a real person. She was somebody I met on tour. She’s a really beautiful girl who’s a friend of ours and would hang out at our shows. The last time I saw her, she had become really depressed and told me she couldn’t understand why people treated each other the way they do. She just couldn’t handle that concept of people treating each other so badly all over the world. It tore her apart. I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this. She told me she wouldn’t be here in a year. She thought she would end her life because she couldn’t take what was going on out there. It blew my mind. Here was this pretty girl who seemed to be fine, but she had all of these internal struggles going on that she just couldn’t handle. For a year, I was wondering if she was okay. It was crazy. It consumed me for a while. I eventually found out that she was fine and she pulled through. Hopefully she found something or someone to show her the joy in life." (Vic Fuentes)
  
  

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