Actor and singer Jared Leto's band Thirty Seconds to Mars’ fifth album America is out today. The album while having the message of a call to action tries to steer clear of any specifics and instead paints slogans with a rather broader brush.
The track ‘Walk on Water’ from the record was released last summer accompanied by a video depicting US migration, prison statistics, even footage of North Korean nuclear launches, protests and Donald J Trump.
During the band’s UK tour in March, Jared Leto said, “Walk on Water is a political song about standing up and fighting for what you believe in. It's about change and it's about the possibilities that we have at our fingertips.”
The album's promotional campaign allows users to design their own cover. They can pick five words which according to them best define the USA.
“The idea around the album campaign, the lists, it's almost like a time capsule, if you look at the individuals, they describe specific things but as a whole they give a sense of the culture and the times that we're living in.” asserted Leto.
He asserted that, “We explore the good, the bad and the ugly, I don't think there's an American alive that sees perfection or sees things in a idealistic way. I think that we are like every nation, a collection of imperfections but also aspirations to kind of follow or reach a bigger ideal or dream.”
Leto describes the new album as not just political but “it's social, it's imaginative, it's highly personal and revealing.”
