Jacks Mannequin Music

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Jack Mannequin’s are running a special music video for their single “Swim” whose lyrics, music, and video revolves around being hopeful and determined to go through current problems that humanity is facing—a remarkable video aiming to inspire and evoke vigor, courage, perseverance, and determination in the face of hurdles, no matter how tough they are.

Truly, Jack’s Mannequin has made a conscious effort to make their music a stronghold for hope to its listeners—a feat that only a few artists consider. In this world of trying times, to serve as a source of inspiration for people is something that beats any accomplishment for a musical group. It is beyond earning dollars of revenue and hitting the billboard charts. It is an accomplishment that transcends the tangible measures of fame that only a few like Jack’s Mannequin has conquered.

On their album releases…

There is a three-year intermission between releasing dates of their album due to the front man Andrew McMahon’s health complication, Leukemia and Lymphoma.

Jack Mannequin’s second album “The Glass Passenger” was released last September 2008. This album has a reminiscing sound of McMahon’s previous band Something Corporate. Still Mc Mahon chose to be in Jack’s Mannequin. The Glass Passenger is a personal way of expressing McMahon’s great fight with cancer, where death and loneliness is the central of his lyrics.

“Swim” has a focal point in struggling to give his fans more, regardless of his suffering. “You gotta swim, swim for your life. Swim for the music that saves you when you’re not so sure you’ll survive. You gotta swim, swim when it hurts. The whole world is watching, you haven’t come this far to fall off the earth.” This phrase conveys his struggle simply just to have their album released despite of his health condition because he doesn’t want to frustrate his fans.

McMahon route to a lower octave in most of the songs even come close to monotone whispers because of his health condition affecting his voice. He tried his best in belting out the words and incredibly still manages to pull it off for his fans. His voice breaks and extended in each syllable but he never gives up.

On channeling personal experience in their songs…

As a reflection of his sentiments, the opening track “Crashing” sets the atmosphere for the whole album, McMahon of Jack’s Mannequin lend his fans the view of a cancer patient who will not fight and just give up. “And even if your voice comes back again, maybe there’ll be no one listening, and even if I find the strength to stand doesn’t mean I won’t go missing. And the world will come crashing down on me.”

McMahon’s personal fight in life put him into more serious hard work giving Jack Mannequin’s new album a sentimental touch.