Nothing But A Smile- Rubberband Girl - Official Music Video

Directed by Jack Wiles
Movement direction by Stephanie McMann
LYRICS:
Losing your mind for the millionth time over some guy
Dreaming of summer skies and endless highs, watching the lights go by
“This is life” they say “don’t wish it all away” and yet you cry the whole way home
Still when you’re wasted, you’ll look up to the greatest and say
“I could do that on a rainy night in Stokey”

Hey there (hey there)
Dreamer (dreamer)
Don’t go (dont go)
Waking just yet

Cause something’s coming up
Soon on the horizon
But this is your song
So dance
With nothing but a smile and the radio on
All night long
Uh
Ya feel it coming up
The temperature’s rising
So take it all off
Cause you look good
With nothing but a smile and the radio
All night long


You look like heaven in your secondhand denim, running for the night bus
Singing along under your breath, smoking cigarettes like you invented it
“This is life” they say “don’t wish it all away” and yet you cry the whole way home
Still when you’re wasted, you’ll look up to the greatest and say
“I could do that on a rainy night in Stokey”

Hey there (hey there)
Dreamer (dreamer)
Don’t go (dont go)
Waking just yet

Something’s coming up
Soon on the horizon
But this is your song
So dance
With nothing but a smile and the radio on
All night long
Uh
Ya feel it coming up
The temperature’s rising
So take it all off
Cause you look good
With nothing but a smile

Nothing but a smile and the radio on
All night long

(Instrumental)

Something’s coming up
Soon on the horizon
But this is your song
So dance
With nothing but a smile and the radio on
All night long
Uh
Ya feel it coming up
The temperature’s rising
So take it all off
Cause you look good
With nothing but a smile

Nothing but a smile and the radio on
All night long
All night long
All night long

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I wrote Nothing But A Smile with the sentiment of living in the moment. It’s about enjoying your youth and the good times, despite the inevitability of bad days and mishaps around the corner.
The line “with nothing but a smile and the radio on” is a reference to the time a reporter asked Marilyn Monroe if it was true that that she had posed nude for a photoshoot, to which she replied “No, I had the radio on!”

Bio: East London based Rubberband Girl blends soulful troubadour elements of the 70s with lightweight modern textures from the 90s and 00s. Written in both an intimately small shed in north London and RAK Studio, the music explores themes of nostalgia, relationships and post-modern life with tongue in cheek attitude over a genre-bending soundscape of synths and organic instruments.