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| Released = 20 September 1982 | Format = | Recorded = 1982 | Genre = Synthpop | Length = 3:32 | Label = | Writer = Roland Orzabal | Producer = | Last single = "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)" (1982) | This single = "Mad World" (1982) | Next single = "Change" (1983) | Audio sample? = yes | Misc = }} "Mad World" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears, written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith. It was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas as Opiates", appeared on the band's debut LP ''The Hurting'' the following year. In the same time, the song eventually became Tears for Fears' first international hit, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982 and 1983, peaking notably at #2 in South Africa. Two decades later, "Mad World" made a popular resurgence when it was covered in a much slower and sombre minimalist style by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules for the soundtrack to the movie ''Donnie Darko'' in 2001. This version reached #1 in the UK in December 2003, and also became an international hit. More recently, Jasmine Thompson made a cover version which she released as part of her EP ''Another Bundle of Tantrums''. ==Background== "Mad World" was originally written on acoustic guitar when Orzabal was 19, it was a deliberate attempt to write something in the vein of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". After a few false starts with Orzabal on vocals, Smith took over and "suddenly it sounded fabulous". It began life intended to be the B-side for the band's second single "Pale Shelter (You Don't Give Me Love)". At Polygram's insistence, 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 producer Chris Hughes, a former drummer with Adam and the Ants. Curt Smith's ad lib in the song's final chorus resulted in a mondegreen. Smith clarified the actual lyric in 2010: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mad World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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