"Statues" is a 2021 single released by Scottish singer Amy Macdonald from her fifth studio album The Human Demands (2021).
[2] Regarding the inspiration and writing process for "Statues", the song is a homage to the house and street, in which Macdonald lived and grew up in, in her home city Glasgow, Scotland.
The composition of the song has been compared to "a Springsteen-esque skill for depicting snapshots of ordinary life with a poetic slant".
Whilst interviewed about the song, Macdonald said "I look back and think of the times I spent in that house with my family and our dog Jackson and I smile,” she says.
The synopsis for the music video "puts the spotlight on The Statues, a pre-teenage girl band who are dictating their own destiny despite their young age.
From the studio to the stage via a self-assured press conference, the trio hurtle through all the defining moments of the rock ‘n’ roll world.
As a means of compensating the cancellation, the Free European Song Contest 2020 was organised by the German television network ProSieben and the production company Raab TV.