"Right Now" is a rock song written by the group Van Halen for their album For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. The song reflects on living for the moment and not being afraid of making a change. Vocalist Sammy Hagar has said that he was writing the lyrics to this song at the studio very late one night, and he heard Eddie Van Halen in an adjacent room working on a piano melody. Hagar said he suddenly realized that "we were writing the same song," so he walked into the room and began singing his words over Van Halen's music. This story is debatable since a version of the melody appears in the 1984 movie The Wild Life which was scored by Eddie Van Halen.
Hagar says the lyrics for "Right Now" were the best he ever wrote for a Van Halen song. "I was tired of writing cheap sex songs," he recalled almost two decades later. "Eddie and I wanted to get serious and talk about world issues." He was one of the few not impressed with the song's music video, since he felt it took attention away from the song. It won Video of the Year at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, and served as the basis for a soda commercial. Different edits of the video have been used to make more explicitly political statements in later years. - wikipedia
Hagar says the lyrics for "Right Now" were the best he ever wrote for a Van Halen song. "I was tired of writing cheap sex songs," he recalled almost two decades later. "Eddie and I wanted to get serious and talk about world issues." He was one of the few not impressed with the song's music video, since he felt it took attention away from the song. It won Video of the Year at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, and served as the basis for a soda commercial. Different edits of the video have been used to make more explicitly political statements in later years. - wikipedia
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