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Indiepop greats Heavenly<\/strong> will release their first album in 30 years, Highway to Heavenly<\/em><\/a>, later this month. Amelia Fletcher<\/strong> and Rob Pursey<\/strong> have been making music together before and after Heavenly for the last 30 years, and their other groups \u2014 Marine Research, Talulah Gosh, The Tender Trap \u2014 aren\u2019t totally different. So what makes a song a Heavenly song?<\/p>\n \u201cI think one of the things is,\u201d Amelia told us on the latest episode of the BV Interviews podcast<\/a>, \u201ctrying to make them sounds quite catchy and kind of inviting you in, but then having reasonably dark lyrics. Some of them are kind of just pop songs but they hide their innards quite well.\u201d She says the album\u2019s very melodic opening song, \u201cScene Stealing,\u201d was a deliberate attempt to update lyrically what Heavenly did in the \u201990s to today.<\/p>\n \u201cLots of what was good about Heavenly was kind of the outlook of being me, and a young woman at that time \u2014 which obviously I\u2019m not anymore,\u201d Amelia says. \u201cSo I was thinking, okay, how do I make these songs Heavenly without\u2026 well, without being that person now that I\u2019m older? I was thinking about the issues I was concerned about back then and whether they\u2019d actually changed. Around that time, our daughters were telling us about these YouTubers and their kind of misbehavior, basically. And I was thinking, oh \u2014 it\u2019s all the same. But what was interesting, and I guess this is a direct result of riot grrrl and things like that \u2014 being part of what made women more willing to speak up \u2014 is that the reason we know about the bad behavior of those YouTubers is that women spoke up in a way that, I think, when we were first starting out in music, they wouldn\u2019t have done.\u201d<\/p>\n You can watch the video for \u201cScene Stealing\u201d which stars Amelia and Rob\u2019s daughter and some of her friends, and listen to a Spanish language version of the song, below. You can also watch Amelia talk about \u201cScene Stealing\u201d below.<\/p>\n You can also listen to our whole conversation with Amelia and Rob on the latest episode of BV Interviews<\/a> wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n Highway to Heavenly is out February 27 and the band will be on tour in North America<\/a> this spring and summer.<\/p>\n