Joel and Luke Smallbone, the Christian brothers who make up the band, for KING + COUNTRY, have dropped the music video for “What Are We Waiting For (The Single),” one of the new tracks featured on the upcoming deluxe edition of their album of the same name. The expanded album, titled “What Are We Waiting For? +,” will release on Sept. 15.
“With a touch of ‘Mad Max,’ we give you the music video/short film for our unexpected title track, ‘What Are We Waiting For? [the single]!’” Joel and Luke Smallbone announced in a press release. “You may call it this album’s visual finale, and yet we’re back to where the cover concept started…the desert nomads. And as a bonus, we’re announcing the soon-to-be-released ‘+’ deluxe edition, which will be the musical exclamation point of our 4th studio album.”
For KING + COUNTRY Expands ‘What Are We Waiting For?’
For KING + COUNTRY is a multi-Grammy Award-winning and RIAA Platinum-selling band that has also won numerous Dove Awards. Joel and Luke Smallbone are the younger brothers of Rebecca St. James, herself a Grammy Award-winning and Dove Award-winning artist.
The music video for “What Are We Waiting For (The Single),” which has a post-apocalyptic feel and was filmed in California’s Mojave Desert, “takes the listener on a journey as the larger-than-life track challenges listeners to be the change they wish to see in the world.” Through the video, the Smallbones aim to “inspire a message of unity, action and optimism.”
The chorus of the song says:
So what are we waiting for? What are we waiting for?
Why are we wasting all the time like someone’s making morе?
What are we praying for? What are wе saving for?
What if we could be the light that no one could ignore?
What are we waiting for?
The album, “What Are We Waiting For?,” originally came out in early 2022; it was nominated for a Grammy Award and won an American Music Award. In addition to the new title track, the expanded version includes another brand new song, “Better Man,” and two previously released duets: “Love Me Like I Am (feat. Jordin Sparks)” and “For God Is With Us (feat. Hillary Scott).” The latter duet featuring Scott, a member of Lady A, was nominated for a Grammy Award.
Other artists featured on the album include Kirk Franklin, Dante Bowe, Tori Kelly and Sleeping at Last.
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