Watch Modern English Perform ‘I Melt With You’ on ‘Fallon’ – Rolling Stone

Trendy English appeared on The Tonight Present to carry out their 1982 single “I Soften With You” as a part of the fortieth anniversary celebration of their album After the Snow. The group supplied a straight-forward rendition of the ’80s quantity, which turned the band’s most profitable observe after its launch.

The band joined the late-night present as a part of an all-’80s present, which additionally included Jennifer Beals, Lea Thompson, and Ralph Macchio.

Trendy English have been on tour within the U.S. this 12 months to have fun the anniversary of After the Snow and just lately wrapped the third leg of the trek Buffalo, New York. The group was initially deliberate to tour pre-pandemic, however rescheduled their Covid-19-postponed 2020 U.S. tour to this 12 months.

In 2020, Trendy English supplied up their “Lockdown Model” of “I Soften With You,” recorded that very same 12 months, as a obtain to learn the Nationwide Unbiased Venue Affiliation (NIVA).

“We have been all at our houses within the U.Okay. other than [guitarist] Daniel [Jakubovic] who was in Los Angeles,” frontman Robbie Gray defined. “We determined to report ‘I Soften With You’ to place a smile on individuals’s faces. We’re conscious of how a lot the music is cherished and simply thought a lockdown model would make individuals completely satisfied in these loopy instances.”

Trendy English had a string of hits of their native England through the late ’70s and early ’80s, however their solely music that basically crossed the Atlantic to America was “I Soften With You.” Many followers within the States first heard it when it appeared on the soundtrack to the 1983 movie Valley Woman and it has since appeared on Glee and in commercials for Burger King, M&Ms, and Taco Bell.