There are 3 bands named Snowman.

*An ambient/tribal/noise 4-piece… Read Full Bio ↴There are 3 bands named Snowman.

*An ambient/tribal/noise 4-piece from Australia, now based in London.
* an audio-visual post-rock project from Poland.

SNOWMAN [Australia/London]

SNOWMAN is an ambient/tribal/noise 4-piece based in London. They originally formed in Perth, Australia in 2002. The lineup consists of Joseph McKee, Andy Citawarman, Olga Hermanniusson and Ross DiBlasio.

Their sound has been described as tribal, hypnotic, futurist and mechanical. Releases include their 2004 EP Zombies on the Airwaves of Paris, their self-titled debut album Snowman in 2006 and their critically acclaimed second album The Horse, The Rat And The Swan in 2008.

Snowman have recently relocated to London. Pitchfork Media gave The Horse, The Rat and The Swan an 8.0 review and placed it on it's 50 Best albums of 2008 Honourable mentions List. Read what they had to say here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/147949-albums-of-the-year-honorable-mention?page=2

Source: www.thesnowmanempire.com and Wikipedia

SNOWMAN [PL]

A band from Poland, exists since the end of 2002, an audio-visual project: Snowman plays concerts with visuals; they have given about 60 gigs all over Poland and in Berlin, taken part with many Polish highlight performers in important festivals, such as: International Film Festival „One Minute”, Malta Festival – New Waves, Gdynia Summer Jazz Days, Union of Rock, Central European Festival of Alternative Music „Globalbeat”; Snowman supported concerts of Archive (UK) and Karate (USA); the band members, along with other artists, run a cultural association (Association For Young Artists V.I.T.R.I.O.L.), take part in many various cultural events (e.g.: music compositions for poetry meetings and exhibitions) and participate in a number of music projects; apart from their own creative compositions, Snowman composed music for “The shine through” (produced by The Association), for two etudes by Mariusz Suszek, a student of Polish Film School in Lodz and also for a silent film by F.W. Murnau “Nosferatu. Symphony of Horrors” for the 25th anniversary of Academic Discussion Film Club (Poznan University); the band cooperates intensively with an alternative theatre MOUTH TO MOUTH (soundtracks for “Driver”, “Cadillac”, “Alice 0 700 188 188”) playing live music that accompanies performances and plays staged for theatre festivals (Malta International Theatre Festival, Street Art International Festival); Snowman made also an impact on such events as prestigious Pilsner Urquell Summer Scene, International Film Festival “Europrowincjonalia” (with “Nosferatu”) and most recently have won The Young Polish Bands Festival (December 2005). In March 2006 in Stodola (Warsaw) Snowman will play as the guest star before Yann Tiersen. Currently the band is working on their first album.

Their participation in a great variety of music events and also the reviews they get, which attempt at finding correspondences between the music they make and the one made by an extremely broad range of different artists, bear witness to the width of the music spectrum they can achieve and an original style that is so hard to define – a mixture of jazz, post-rock and electronics offering a warm sounding melody and at the same time either a little bit trans-like song or an instrumental composition with a characteristic trans-like theme.

Snow Man（スノーマン）
A japanese nine-member male idol group under Johnny & Associates. Previous to their debut, the group was a former Johnny's Jr. unit that was formed in 2012. The group's activities focused on acrobatics and stage play. They made their official debut along with SixTONES, on 22 January 2020.

PRE-DEBUT ERA:
Mis Snow Man was created with the boys from Johnny's Jr. group Jr.BOYS for Takizawa Kakumei in January 2009. Mis Snow Man was originally a 9 member group, but in June 2009 Onodera Ikki was moved into another Johnny's Jr. group, M.A.D.. In 2012, Sanada Yuma and Nozawa Yuki were removed from the group and formed a duo Jr's group called noon boys. On May 3, Mis Snow Man changed their name to Snow Man.

On January 17, 2019 Mukai Koji, Meguro Ren (who was also a member of a junior group Uchuu Six) and Raul were added as new members. On August 8 during Johnny's Jr.'s live 'Johnny's Jr. 8.8 Matsuri ~Tokyo Dome Kara Hajimaru~' at Tokyo Dome, it was announced that Snow Man and SixTONES will simultaneously make their CD debut in 2020. On October 24, it was announced that Snow Man’s and SixTONES’s debut CD will be a double A-side "collaboration" single.

Members:
・Iwamoto Hikaru（岩本照）- Leader
・Fukazawa Tatsuya（深澤辰哉）
・Raul（ラウール）
・Watanabe Shota（渡辺翔太）
・Mukai Koji（向井康二）
・Abe Ryohei （阿部亮平）
・Meguro Ren （目黒蓮）
・Miyadate Ryota（宮舘涼太）
・Sakuma Daisuke（佐久間大介）

Cold Love
Snowman Lyrics

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you gotta stick to me
going down going down
that's what we are - going down for sure

you're glued to a perfect dream
going past... going past... now... now

stepping in means you don't look back

stepping into me mans you don't look back

shutting doors
you just can't get back
you just can't go back
back
back

you gotta stick to me
going down going down
that's what we are - going down for sure

you're glued to a perfect dream
going past... going past... now...

don't try to hide, it will give you away
there's no turning back

shutting doors
you just can't go back
you just can't get back
back
back

you're glued to a perfect dream

you just gotta run
you gotta run

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of "Cold Love" by Snowman are quite ambiguous and open to interpretation, but one interpretation could be that the song is about a toxic relationship that the singer knows is going to end badly yet feels trapped in. The line "you gotta stick to me, going down for sure" suggests that the relationship is heading towards a downward spiral. The line "you're glued to a perfect dream" could mean that the singer is holding onto an idealized version of the relationship even though they know it's not healthy. The line "shutting doors you just can't get back" may mean that once they cross a certain point in the relationship, there's no going back. The repeated lines "you just can't go back" and "you gotta run" further reinforce this idea.

Overall, the lyrics paint a picture of a relationship that is going downhill and the singer's struggle to come to terms with it. The repetition of certain lines adds to a sense of inevitability and urgency.

Line by Line Meaning

you gotta stick to me
You need to stick with me and follow my lead

going down going down
We are falling deeper into something

that's what we are - going down for sure
We are definitely heading towards something negative

you're glued to a perfect dream
You are too fixated on an idealistic vision

going past... going past... now... now
We are moving beyond that dream in the current moment

stepping in means you don't look back
Once you start, there's no turning back

shutting doors
Closing off possibilities

you just can't get back
You cannot go back to what has been closed off

back
Again emphasizing the inability to go back

you gotta stick to me
Again emphasizing the need to follow the artist

you're glued to a perfect dream
Still fixated on the unreachable ideal