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Labrinth builds 'Mount Everest' around a simple, defiant boast: he's on top of the world, higher than the world's tallest peaks and most ambitious structures. The song repeats this claim with the confidence of someone who has nothing left to prove, layering it over an arrangement that shifts from anthemic to frenzied as it progresses. Beneath the surface swagger, though, the track reveals a more complicated picture. Labrinth sings of burning down his house and rebuilding it for sport, of money he doesn't know what to do with, of disconnection so complete he won't answer his phone. The boasting becomes a kind of armour. By the final repetition of the hook, the arrangement has grown unstable, and the facade of invulnerability starts to crack. What sounds like triumph at the start begins to sound like something closer to isolation, a man insisting he needs nobody because he has already decided he can trust no one.
"Mount Everest" is a single by Labrinth, from the album Imagination & the Misfit Kid, released 21st November 2019. The track is 2:37 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Labrinth.
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