Heartbeat Lyrics

Lyric discussion by yohe 

Cover art for Heartbeat lyrics by Islands

Very much sounds like making fun of/asking for action against the current "autotune" trend in music and the artists that are using it.

"destroy what destroys my own heartbeat"

alright, so I saw Islands last week and got to chat with Nick Diamonds afterward. I asked about Heartbeat and whether it was mocking the autotune trend (see above comment) and his response: "Not exactly...it's more or less dating our music, so to speak. Everyone's doing autotune right now, so we said why not do a song that follows the current trend. At the end of the day, it's just a special effect. Nothing else."

Whoops. I told him my reasoning and he just smiled and said he saw where i was coming from. Great guy.

Thanks, I was wondering about that myself. I think this song is all about relationships and whether or not you really know someone. I think the references to music are allusions to relationships.