Pleasure In Pain: Boys Get Hurt’s “While I’m In Doors”

I’ve gotten way too old for nights out. A couple years ago, the idea of going to a club and getting silly until the sun came out sounded like a thrilling prospect, a chance for who-knows-what to happen. Nowadays, I’d much rather get eight hours of sleep and wake up with enough time to cook breakfast before going to work. That’s probably why so many musical celebrations of all-nighters leave me cold – it’s tough to get behind songs like “Die Young” or “Give Me Everything” when 12-hours-out (let alone the club-appropriate debauchery!) are massive turn-offs.

Boys Get Hurt’s latest song “While I’m In Doors,” serves as a sort of alternative celebration of going out. The video for the song features clips from, presumably, Boys Get Hurt’s live shows at various clubs, with people jumping around and hollerin’ and taking to poles (intercut with still shots and…geometric shapes). Yet the song itself does not sound particularly aggressive, but rather surprisingly sweet. Don’t get that twisted – this thing still hops around and builds up to some great moments of pure release – but it does so in a way that almost feels like thinking back on a memory, and basking in it. It’s simple but movable, and above all else very sweet. Listen above.