Premiere: Matt McAndrew trips on booze and love with ‘Game Over’
The former ‘Voice’ competitor wears his heart on his sleeve for a new club banger.
Cupid’s got a way of striking when you least expect it. Bow-kissed and unwavering, the classical figurine of lust and desire sneaks between the rose and peach layers of the California sunset. It’s that last stolen kiss as the twilight scatters into a starry night sky. It’s running away with the top down and the radio up. It’s the fading dew drops on the sweeping greenery at your feet. It’s the twinkling of the Los Angeles cityscape that whisks outward in all directions, seemingly connecting to the blanket of orbs overhead. It’s a thing of unhinged and impassioned beauty.
Pop juggernaut Matt McAndrew, who rose to national prominence on The Voice a few seasons ago, traipses along his own love-struck galaxy. Flickers of synths throb in time with his heartbeat, glowing with a new-found romance that flushes his cheeks and throws caution to the wind. “Tripped on love, just my luck / On my lips, into my blood,” he stages on the opening lyrics of a booze-soaked midnight banger called “Game Over,” premiering today. “Tried to run, didn’t get far / Whiskey kiss straight to my heart…” Co-written with Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harrington and Brooke Cervenka, the glistening and electrifyingly sentimental romper goes all out to chronicle a night out “with some friends for drinks,” he tells B-Sides & Badlands, before Cupid’s arrow pierces his chest.
“Remember when we were sober?” McAndrew proposes on the hook, which spins between the sunlight’s stark final rays, as the darkness descends like a fog and entangles around their bodies. But make no mistake, the stream of alcohol serves to boost the buzz of a romantic rendezvous, not cloud his judgement. “Me neither / Take me home / Game over,” he concludes, sealing up his heart because he’s now officially off the market for good. “So high, we don’t wanna come down / Got my heart beating at the speed of sound…”
“Game Over” follows 2016’s Rush in Slowly, featuring his Top 20 breakout hit “Wasted Love.”
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