Belle and Sebastian Share New Song “What Happened to You, Son?”: Listen

Belle
and
Sebastian
have
shared
a
new
song
that
was
scrapped
from
their
2023
album,


Late
Developers,
at
the
last
second.
“What
Happened
to
You,
Son?”
tells
the
story
of
a
music
fan
obsessing
over
his
idols.
Check
it
out
below.

“The
song
is
about
my
youth,
and
the
funny
hole
I
fell
into
in
my
late
teens.
I
was
failing
at
my
university
course,
failing
in
almost
everything
I
tried
around
then.
I
was
obsessed
with
the
music
of
the
time,
I
used
to
hang
so
much
on
the
lyrics
and
message
and
feeling
of
certain
bands
of
the
80s
era
–
it
probably
wasn’t
healthy,”
singer
Stuart
Murdoch
stated.
“Instead
I
let
the
singers
become
my
penpals
and
my
deities.
The
song
tries
to
address
what
happens
when
the
pop
stars
grow
up,
and
change,
and
go
a
different
way,
and
seem
to
betray
the
stance
they
held
when
you
loved
them
the
most.”

Next
week,
Belle
and
Sebastian
embark
on

a
North
American
tour
that
continues
throughout
the
spring.
They
will
perform
songs
from
their
two
recent
records,

Late
Developers
and


A
Bit
of
Previous,
and
opening
select
dates
will
be
Haley
Heynderickx
and
the
Weather
Station.

Last
December,
Belle
and
Sebastian
made
an
animated
appearance
on


The
Simpsons.
The
band
appeared
alongside
David
Tennant,
Karen
Gillan,
and
Paul
Higgins
for
an
episode
that
took
place
in
Scotland.