With Mad World's again-resurgent popularity, I'm getting asked more frequently about the last line on the album version from The Hurting, a line which I occasionally also sing in concert. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2010: Ĭurt Smith's ad lib in the song's final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. We had no idea that it would become a hit. The intention was to gain attention from it and we'd hopefully build up a little following.
"Mad World" was the first single off the finished album. Not that Bath is very mad – I should have called it "Bourgeois World"! That came when I lived above a pizza restaurant in Bath and I could look out onto the centre of the city. The band instead decided it may be something people would like to hear on the radio and held back its release, waiting to issue the song as a single in its own right after re-recording it with Chris Hughes, a former drummer with Adam and the Ants. "Mad World" began life as the intended B-side for Tears for Fears' second single " Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)".
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