The country’s favorite alternative-folk band entices us with their new single.
Two days after Valentine’s Day, Filipino alternative folk band The Ridleys released their new single Be With You. The song had its live pre-debut as part of the band’s lineup last August 2022 as a guest artist on Any Name’s Okay’s Leaving Home EP Launch. This makes the song’s official release highly anticipated by fans and casual listeners alike.
Be With You is the sweet bite of vanilla custard cake after a sip of black coffee. The longer you listen to it, the sweeter the combined lyrics and melody taste. The Pop-RnB song pays homage to loving someone constantly through the highs and the mundane. The Ridleys successfully encapsulated in this song what it is like to love someone who inspires and gives you the courage to change for the better, not just for others’ sake, but most likely for one’s own. Benny Manaligod, the song’s lyricist and band’s frontman, revealed on X last December 2023 that Be With You is a song he wrote for his then-girlfriend, now fiancé. Manaligod’s lyrics showed us imageries of how it felt to love someone genuinely and patiently who might eventually guarantee us a love that will last for a lifetime. The lyric composition still follows the typical The Ridleys style, easy to comprehend and relate to.
Fans and other listeners of The Ridleys showed intense love for the band and the single. It already garnered a total of 50,000 streams on its first day. The track is also featured on Spotify’s ― one of the biggest music streaming platforms sheltering millions of listeners ― playlist, New Music Fridays Philippines. X users are also fawning over the song, with posts like, “matutulog na kinikilig dahil sa be with you hehe thank u for this song the ridleys, sarap maging inloveee”, “ang ganda ganda ng be with you by the ridleys!!!!”, and “ang ganda talaga ng be with you ng the ridleys kahit part palang yung naririnig ko😭” among the rest.
The fan-favorite line from the song is probably “I’ve got to work on my temper while you learn to speak your mind some more, I’ll be more of a shelter, and less of a storm, While we both are working on ourselves in our own ways, I just wanna be with you, every single day.”
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About the Author
Angel Mariah Rodiel – Mari to the people she’s fond of – is a BA Literature student currently studying in Central Luzon State University. Writing, arts, and music are some of the things she’s been most passionate about ever since she was a kid. Mari’s little dream is to build a band that will open for Paramore’s concert someday. Pop-punk and alternative rock are her comfort music genres, K-pop and J-rock comes close as third and fourth.
This song is great! ❤️