On Wednesday, November 3rd, Arcade Fire performed a new song titled “Generation A” on Stephen Colbert’s election night special. The song serves as a post-election 2020 anthem from the rock band.
Colbert introduced the band and described the song saying it is “inspired by the current climate of the country with a hopeful message to the youths.”
“Generation A” seems to be just that. Arcade Fire opened the song by having a kid walk into the studio, and yell into the microphone “This is Generation A! And we’re not gonna wait!”
The lead singer of the rock band, Win Butler, sings “Say wait until tomorrow/ ‘Cause today is always strange/ Say wait until you’re older and you will understand/ They say the generation’s coming/ I don’t think they understand that I am not a patient man.” All members of the band join in for the catchy chorus, shouting, “I can’t wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait/Too little too late!”
If “Generation A” gets a studio version, it will be the first new release by Arcade Fire since their 2017 album Everything Now. In 2019 though, they did cover “Baby Mine” for Disney’s live-action version of Dumbo.
Butler shared a bit about an upcoming album for the band back in April, saying that writing and making music for the band has increased during the COVID-19 quarantine, but the timeline for the album was described as “eventually, not soon.”