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thesinglesjukebox · 5 months

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TROYE SIVAN - "GOT ME STARTED"

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Just saying, we covered "Shooting Stars" all the way back in Two Thousand Fucking Nine. So, yeah.

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Aaron Bergstrom: The 2009 Jukebox got this one right the first time around: "Electronic dance that's dressed in inexpensive pastels." "For such a florid production, it's surprisingly withdrawn." "The mosquito riff and use of space find the right balance between serenity and obnoxiousness.""Great little processed twists on familiar riffs that nonetheless fail to excuse a middling chorus and dull hook." If Troye didn't really feel like adding anything to the original source material, I don't see why I should have to. [5]

Ian Mathers: There are specific risks to interpolating a meme song, and "Got Me Started" does so little with Bag Raiders that it's just genuinely distracting. The rest of the song is pretty decent, and then every so often it just stops for me to picture a kid on a go kart flying through space. [6]

Will Adams: Yes, "Shooting Stars" was a hit down under over a decade ago, well before Katy Perry used it in a a video; it's conceivable that an Aussie would want to pay tribute. But for a lapsed YouTuber (and co-writer Leland, Drag Race fixture and MUNA collaborator as he is), there's no way they didn't consider the meme. And yes, it's distracting. The rest of "Got Me Started" is polite, of-the-moment pop fluff, but when that reedy synth pops in, I'm taken out of everything. [4]

Leah Isobel: The first time I heard that fucking sample, I cackled. Troye, my favorite emotionally vacant twink, just as allergic to genuine feeling as ever, just as unable to let something be without putting quotation marks around it. But where past Troye singles made that feel like a flaw he wanted to make up for, "Got Me Started" makes that resistance feel like part of its design. His voice is pitched up and around, part of the track's silvered machinery, so that the feelings he's expressing can separate from his body and throat; "we should experiment even to the detriment of whoever's on the couch" is a perfect pop lyric, stupid and profound and precise. It's the sound of desire entering from another dimension, like a half-remembered song heard on the radio, or in a meme. [8]

Michael Hong: Troye's music has always put well-manicured taste over everything else, so this stupid joke of a sample feels at odds with his approach, its piercing melody overpowers his quiet earnestness. [3]

Oliver Maier: I don't really object to the sample choice, but it's deployed like an afterthought rather than a centerpiece, as if Sivan couldn't write a riff and realised that "Shooting Stars" worked well enough over the chords. "Experiment/detriment" is an unconscionable rhyme. [5]

Kayla Beardslee: I don't know the sample well enough to have the Pavlovian reaction to it that I know some of the other writers do, so to me this song is just a crowning achievement in the possibilities of sensitive and sparkly synthpop. (Shoutout to Ian Kirkpatrick, this is one of the best things he's ever produced.) I'm obsessed with the balance of textures in this track: it's so vibrant and shimmery, but with a ton of depth and movement beneath the pretty surface, and the tasteful playing with vocal delivery grounds the song in little moments of honesty to keep it from sounding too perfect (the subtle crowd noise in the background of the first verse, the whispered "let's go" before the chorus, the ever-so-slightly pitched-up hook, the background vocals echoing the title of the album at the end of the song). Yet there's still enough empty space left between the gentle chords to sit, reflect, and look at at someone the way you would look at a sunset. [8]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: The ethos of Sivan's recent work is the primary truth of the physical above all -- yet he can't quite seem to get there on "Got Me Started." He says that he misses using his body, and everything here does feel slightly disembodied. The production is most of the problem: that sample, those nods to UK Garage, every single one of Ian Kirkpatrick's Mura Masa-isms, all adding up to slightly less than what it should be. Troye himself does better; his default inclination of ecstatic, wan yearning continues to work just fine on the dancefloor, but he doesn't quite achieve enough in the joyous lack of subtext here to overcome limpness of the production. [6]

Thomas Inskeep: Sivan's Something to Give Each Other is what I wanted Kylie's Tension to be: sexy, groove-riding, not working overtime to be full of hits. You can hear Sivan smiling as he sings! The light 2-step rhythm on "Started" becomes him. Producer Ian Kirkpatrick worked on Dua Lipa's first record, and of course, this has a similar smart & knowing vibe. This is a single that knows just what it's doing. [7]

Nortey Dowuona: I actually dig that having a terrible television show that praises immense abuse and violence doesn't end your career anymore because we wouldn't get this tender, vulnerable song from Xander towards the first man he's met since getting out from under Mauricio and Jocelyn's thumbs, who's charismatic but warm, passionate but empathetic, funny but sensitive, someone you can lay your worries down on without worry about them weighting him down -- wait, his name is Troye? Oh. Yeah, it is kinda weird all the YouTube I watched of him referring to him as Troye never mentioned Xander before this year. Gonna fix th- (gets up and dances, never actually finishes the blurb- [8]

Wayne Weizhen Zhang: "Why does he have my psyche in a chokehold?" quipped SNL. It's a good question. Shirt small as can be, pants as big as they come, Troye Sivan is finally commanding his position in culture, and "Got Me Started" is but one of the tools in his arsenal. If this song can get Timothée Chalamet, the moisturized Machine Gun Kelly he is, to do the choreography on SNL along with Lucy Dacus, Pheobe Bridgers, and Julien Baker; if this song can inspire local drag queens to lean the choreography in one night and perform it the next day at brunch; if this song can have me clamoring for my own Gucci glitter suit; if this song can take a meme and turn it into a supremely danceable sing; Troye might finally come the mainstream pop star he deserves to be. [8]

Katherine St Asaph: A Y2K masterclass. The Bag Raiders sample is relatively modern but evokes the halcyon days of Venga; the "oh baby baby" tag evokes the ingenue days of Britney; the percussion obviously evokes the newly re-beloved days of garage. Everything is just so evocative, and tasteful, trading curated competence for feeling and immediacy. The lyrics actually do a pretty good job of describing the sort of lightning chemistry that yanks you away from propriety ("we should experiment to the detriment of whoever's on the couch" -- damn). But nowhere is that spark found in the song. [6]

Anna Katrina Lockwood: This song sounds like being absolutely blitzed drunk at a pie shop in Collingwood at 2am, a very Australian experience I'd hazard a guess I share with Troye Sivan. I'd be totally on board with this song if this vibe matched the lyrics, but that's not exactly the case here. Also, the Australian-ness of that Bag Raiders sample is completely subsumed by its meme-ness at this point, so it's hard to think of this song as anything other than a minor failure, though a decently entertaining one. [5]

Alfred Soto: That sample is a menace -- couldn't he have found a more complementary sound to play against that lovely electric piano? Maybe he thinks the voice distortion is that sound. Still, Sivan's in fine fey form, and lines like "we can experiment to the detriment of whoever's on the couch" will make Neil Tennant double check his relative pronouns. [7]

Brad Shoup: I have no relationship with "Shooting Stars", so I'm delighted by what Alfred delightfully calls a "mosquito riff". I find it thoroughly agreeable, unlike Sivan's mosquito voice on the chorus, which intrudes on an otherwise chill golden hour. (Blame Ian Kirkpatrick for that.) Otherwise, it's tame fun, a sleepily flirty garage-pop track that suggests Zayn handing "Love Like This" to Harry. [6]

Rachel Saywitz: Feel like one day this will be cited in an academic paper called "The Sexification of Mememology." Also gotta give Troye credit for creating a new meme from the sexifying the old meme. [7]

Josh Winters: If anxiety is the sensation of the desire of the other (as Lacan once theorized), it's a dilemma Troye Sivan seems to run into regularly. It's intriguing to hear the paradox in how he plays it cool while processing his arousal, laying down a level-headed vocal melody between the 2-step beat skittering about and the sample buzzing like a heart monitor on high alert. The bursts of excitement that initiate the choruses help to move the action forward, but it's in the moments where the beat drops out, time hangs in the air for a second, and he taps into his vulnerability to offer it to the other. "Boy, can I be honest? I wanna tell you what's on my mind." Eventually, the many pulses of the present align, and Troye can surrender to the heat of the moment in all of its sexy glory. It's hilarious and frustrating how navigating desire can feel like finding yourself in the same tired situation, but then each experience can provoke something unearthed in us with every new person we come into contact with. And yet, despite the discomfort, it's a threshold I'm willing to push through time after time. After all, aren't anxiety and excitement one and the same? [9]

Alex Ostroff: This is where I hear Damita Jo not just in Troye's lyrics, but also the music. The smooth glide of "SloLove" is all over this, albeit filtered through the current UKG and 2step revival. My ignorance of the sample can't be chalked up to age - we apparently covered it on Jukebox five months after I started writing here - but I'm still protected from the intense meme-related reactions everyone else on the planet seemed to have. Instead, I'm captured by Troye's whispered, "Let's go", as he finds a man in the corner of a crowded house, locks eyes, and confesses, "Boy, can I be honest? Kinda miss using my body", then suggests experimenting to the detriment of the sofa's current occupants. Or by his deep muttered "yeah" at 2:45. The brazen sample is also just tacky enough to disrupt the perpetually chill tastefulness that risks taking over other parts of the album. Neither track we're covering today is the best single from this era - that honour belongs to Troye's fascinating, thorny, pathetic, power tripping, horny, vaguely self-loathing exploration of the appeal of ostensibly straight boys, but "Got Me Started" is definitely the one most likely to get me on the dancefloor. [9]

David Moore: If you're going to pay to jack Bag Raiders so two thousand and late, why would you try to flatten it into atmospheric mush like this, like trying to roll gumballs into cookie dough? Either wrangle with what the thing is or at least chew it up and deface it; for god's sake, Katy Perry was the last one to touch it. It's not some hiding-in-plain-sight gem from a bygone era, it just sounds unfashionably old, like everything from 2008-2010 will sound forever (not sure why this is, some sort of world-historical demarcation point, but subtler than electrification or a world war). And this in turn makes Troye Sivan sound old, even though he's only 28, which I guess must be 40 in Troye Sivan years. Anyway, I just went back to listen to "Whatever You Shoot" from Dirty South Dance 2 to see if that sounded old, too, and guess what! It did. But not as old as I thought it might, and certainly not as old as this one makes me feel. [4]

Taylor Alatorre: Even in the best of cases where a recognizable sample is used as a song's backbone, it's hard to escape the feeling that a bit of cynicism was at work in its creation: they did it because it was easy, or because the label asked them to, or just to flex on us that they could, et cetera. I detect absolutely none of that cynicism here, as it's clear that Sivan is approaching "Shooting Stars" from a place of wide-eyed reverence and awe, and a desire to extrapolate upon the dreamily familiar soundscape rather than crassly exploit it. The transitions between late-aughts indie dance and early-aughts garage aren't totally seamless, but the implicit link that the song draws between online and offline forms of connection is compelling enough to smooth things over. [7]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: The sample is an admirable choice, all silliness-turned-serious to match the way love and libido make all things new. Imagine if a celebrity sexted "kinda miss using my body" and a screenshot of that message went viral on Twitter. People would spout opinions about it being corny and cringe. They're right, but isn't that true of anything that involves our body? [7]

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#troye sivan #music #pop music #music writing #music reviews #the singles jukebox #Youtube

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nottooldtodream · 7 months

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“Troye is taking so many big swings on this album, sonically and visually. That theme of taking big swings is carried throughout the album, this rollout and the tour. It’s just so exciting. “Silly” is definitely my favorite, that was produced by Ian Kirkpatrick who also produced “Got Me Started.”

An interview with Leland that co-wrote 9 of the songs on the album with Troye

#troye sivan #troye sivan mellet #something to give each other #leland

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actualhumansunshine · 2 years

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Songwriters / Producers of the NH3 Era So Far

Anthony Rossomando (Shallow - Lady Gaga)

Andrew Wells (More - Halsey; Shallow - Lady Gaga)

Ian Kirkpatrick (New Rules, Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa, Bad Liar - Selna Gomez)*

Sean Douglas (Die A Happy Man - Thomas Rhett; Like A Girl - Lizzo)*

Ryan Tedder (Sucker - Jonas Brothers; Ring - Selena Gomez; Particular Taste - Shawn Mendes)

Blake Slatkin (Mood - 24kGoldn; Stay - Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber)

JKash (Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship; Attention - Charlie Puth)

Ali Tamposi (Prisoner - Miley Cyrus & Dua Lipa; Senorita - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello; Youngblood - 5SOS)*

Dermot Kennedy

Anne-Marie (they wrote 3 songs together)

TMS (On My Own, So Long; Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi)

Plested (Before You Go - Lewis Capaldi; Touch - Little Mix)

Jimmy Napes (Stay With Me, Dancing With A Stranger - Sam Smith & Normani; Crown - Stormzy)

Emily Warren (New Rules, Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa)*

John Ryan (Slow Hands, No Judgement, etc)

Eskeerdo (Slow Hands, No Judgement, etc)

Wayne Hector (Best Song Ever, Steal My Girl, Temporary Fix, etc - 1D)

Sophie 'Frances' Cooke (Hallucinate - Dua Lipa; Drop Dead - Holly Humberstone)*

Sammy Witte (Cherry, To Be So Lonely - Harry Styles; Luke Hemmings)*

SG Lewis (Hallucinate - Dua Lipa)

Mike Needle & Dan Bryer (This Town, Mirrors, Small Talk, PALLOM, etc)+

Jamie Scott (This Town, TMTA, Heartbreak Weather, Small Talk, etc)

whatever the fuck was going on in that studio on long island / scott harris(?)

Sly (Comeback - Jonas Brothers; We're Good - Dua Lipa; Burning Bridges - Sigrid)

Rami Yacoub (One Last Time - Ariana Grande; Wildflower - 5SOS)

Amy Allen (Without Me - Halsey; Adore You - Harry Styles)

Mike Sabbath (Hesitate, First - Jonas Brothers)

Caroline Ailin (New Rules, Don't Start Now - Dua Lipa)

Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves)

Joel Little (Lorde - Pure Heroine, Supercut, Green Light; Taylor Swift - Me!, You Need To Calm Down; James Bay - Peer Pressure)

Photo/Video

Henry Scholfield (New Rules, IDGAF - Dua Lipa; Shameless - Camila Cabello)*

Kai Cranmore (Nice To Meet Ya)

* denotes mutual Instagram follows, but no photographic proof of them working together

+ there's only proof of working with Mike Needle, but because they work in a pair so often, it's very possible that Dan just wasn't tagged in the post or something

#solo niall #nh3 #masterpost #2020 #2021 #mine #m:text #so many dua cowriters i'm #i'd say a good 60% of them have written something for her #niall's future nostalgia WHEN

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ulkaralakbarova · 2 months

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The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Anna: Jodie Foster King Mongkut: Chow Yun-fat Tuptim: Bai Ling Louis: Tom Felton The Kralahome: Syed Alwi General Alak: Randall Duk Kim Prince Chowfa: Lim Kay Siu Princess Fa-Ying: Melissa Campbell Prince Chulalongkorn: Keith Chin Moonshee: Mano Maniam Beebe: Shanthini Venugopal Lady Thiang: Deanna Yusoff Lord John Bradley: Geoffrey Palmer Lady Bradley: Ann Firbank Mycroft Kincaid: Bill Stewart Khun Phra Balat: Sean Ghazi Phim: K.K. Moggie Noi: Dharma Harun Nikorn: Harith Iskander Pitak: Yank Kassim Interpreter: Afdlin Shauki Lady Jao Jom Manda Ung: Swee Lin Neo King Chulalongkorn: Ramli Hassan Captain Blake: Robert Hands Scarfaced leader: Lim Yu-Beng Justice Phya Phrom: Kenneth Tsang Second Judge: Kee Thuan Chye Third Judge: Patrick Teoh Lady of Court No.1: Aimi Aziz Lady of Court No.2: Ellie Suriaty Lady of Court No.3: Tina Siew Ting Lee Lady of Court No.4: Ruby Wong Cheuk-Ling Lady of Court No.5: Zaridah Abdul Malik La-Ore: Fariza Azlina Scout No.1: Ahmad Mazlan Scout No.2: Razif Salimin Siamese Trader: Zaibo Shipping Dock Woman: Pak Ling Mercenary: Mahmud Ali Basah Distraught Villager: Zulhaila Siregar Film Crew: Producer: Lawrence Bender Original Music Composer: George Fenton Screenplay: Steve Meerson Screenplay: Peter Krikes Casting: Priscilla John Director of Photography: Caleb Deschanel Producer: Ed Elbert Editor: Roger Bondelli Production Design: Luciana Arrighi Costume Design: Jenny Beavan Director: Andy Tennant Novel: Anna Leonowens Original Music Composer: Robert Kraft Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker Unit Production Manager: Leila Kirkpatrick Gaffer: Laurie Shane Best Boy Electric: Ron Shane Movie Reviews: CinemaSerf: This is a great looking film; the beautiful photography (Malaysia not Thailand) is stunning and George Fenton’s sympathetic score helps create a stylish setting for this retelling of the story about an English widow – played here by Jodie Foster – who takes up a position as governess to the children (and wives) of King Mongkut of Siam (Chow Yun-Fat). This story departs pretty drastically from the original text and turns into more of a sentimental love story tempered by treasonous activities from within the King’s extended family. The principle performances are both gentle and sensitive, though Jodie Foster’s accent is a little forced, and Bill Stewart puts in a good effort as the dodgy British trader “Mycroft Kincaid”. It is just too far removed from the original for me, but I’d watch it again….

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#19th century #based on true story #Battle #burma #civil war #Daughter #death penalty #denunciation #east india company #palace #parent child relationship #royalty #siam #Teacher #thailand #Top Rated Movies #traitor #victorian era

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albumaday2024 · 3 months

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Album a Day: Grammys Album of the Year Addition!

January 11: GUTS

Olivia Rorigo

(nominee)

September 8, 2023

Producer: Dan Nigro

Label: Geffen

-Pop, alternative rock, indie rock, pop rock-

Writers: Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro, Julia Michaels, Amy Allen, Annie Clark

Engineers: Dan Nigro, Dave Schiffman, Jasmine Chen, Sterling Laws, Sam Stewart, Ryan Linvill, Dan Viafore, Michael Harris, Chris Kasych, Dani Perez, Alexander 23, Ian Kirkpatrick

Assistant Engineers: Austen Healey

Mixers: Mark "spike" Stent, Dan Nigro, Serban Ghenea, Mitch McCarthy

Assistant Mix Engineers: Matt Wolach and Bryce Bordon

Masterer: Randy Merrill

Lead Vocals: Olivia Rodrigo

Instruments: Daniel Nigro, Sterling Laws, Sam Stewart, Ryan Linvill, Benjamin Romans, Paul Cartwright, Erick Serna, Alexander 23, Ian Kirkpatrick, Garrett Ray, and Derek Stein

Backing Vocals: Olivia Rodrigo, Dan Nigro, Ryan Linvill, Chappell Roan, and Alexander 23

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#Spotify #olivia rodrigo #dan nigro #an album a day #music #grammys #grammys aoty #aoty #album of the year

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cultofpoppy-tm · 2 years

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Poppy with her boyfriend, producer Ian Kirkpatrick 💞

#poppy #cult of poppy #queen #poppy's world #i'm poppy #cute #personal #boyfriend #ian kirkpatrick #producer #fyb #fuck you back #they're such dorks 💕

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jules-has-notes · 4 months

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Aca Top 10: Summer Hits 2015 — VoicePlay music video

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VoicePlay had kicked off their "Aca Top 10" series with the hits of summer 2014, and the next year gave them just as much good fodder to draw from. Their continued busy schedule provided the same impetus for another medley they could record in a way that didn't require much editing, but that doesn't mean they cut corners on their musicality or the party vibes.

Details:

title: Aca Top 10 — Summer Hits 2015

original songs / performers: "Time of Our Lives" by Pitbull & Ne-Yo; [0:23] "Want To Want Me" by Jason Derulo; [0:40] "Honey, I'm Good" by Andy Grammer; [0:56] "Sugar" by Maroon 5; [1:09] "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten; [1:20] "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, featuring Kendrick Lamar; [1:30] "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth; [1:40] "Watch Me" by Silentó; [1:52] "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd; [2:07] "Shut Up and Dance" by Walk the Moon

written by: "Time of Our Lives" by Armando "Pitbull" Pérez, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Henry "Cirkut" Walter, Shaffer "Ne-Yo" Smith, Vinay Rao, Stephan Taft, & Michael "Freakin" Everett; "Want To Want Me" by Jason Derulo, Ian Kirkpatrick, Samuel Denison Martin, Lindy Robbins, & Mitch Allan; "Honey, I'm Good" by Andy Grammer & Nolan Sipe; "Sugar" by Mike Posner, Adam Levine, Joshua "Ammo" Coleman, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, & Henry "Cirkut" Walter; "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten & Dave Bassett; "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, Karl "Shellback" Schuster, & Kendrick Lamar; "See You Again" by Cameron "Wiz Khalifa" Thomaz, Charlie Puth, Justin "DJ Frank E" Franks, Andrew Cedar, Dann Hume, Josh Hardy, & Phoebe Cockburn; "Watch Me" by Ricky "Silentó" Hawk & Timothy Mingo; "Can't Feel My Face" by Ali Payami, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, & Peter Svensson; "Shut Up and Dance" by Ben Berger, Eli Maiman, Ryan McMahon, Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, & Sean Waugaman

arranged by: Geoff Castellucci

release date: 3 September 2015

My favorite bits:

the cool percussion riff Layne puts in as a radio edit during "Time of Our Lives"

the breakdown moment in "Honey, I'm Good"

Tony's fantastic side-eye as he sips his coffee during Earl's solo on the first two lines of "Bad Blood"

Eli leaning on Earl's shoulder, and Geoff and Layne gazing fondly at each other during "See You Again"

once again giving the most attention-seeking lyrics to Tony, who's actually quite shy (but performs it well, nevertheless)

Geoff's concerned expression as he makes sure that he can, in fact, feel his face

everyone else cutting out the first time Tony sings ♫ "shut up and dance with me" ♫

Layne gleefully tossing the final sign at the end of a successful take

Trivia:

A full arrangement of "Shut Up and Dance" was part of the Disney Sessions collaborations VoicePlay did with the cast of Newsies as part of the 20th anniversary celebration for Disney On Broadway earlier in the year.

They also included a snippet of "Bad Blood" in their Patreon launch video.

It seems as though the arrangement process happened about a month before they released the video, possibly during their downtime on a cruise ship.

#VoicePlay #music video #a cappella #live recording #music medley #music #video #series: Aca Top 10

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lagroupie · 5 months

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Interview: Bass Drum of Death - Say I Won't

Bass Drum of Death in Sion with opening band Fomies, (one of the best Swiss rock bands in my opinion), through my Nikon right after the show.

Back in October, one of my favorite bands, Bass Drum of Death, was touring in Europe and had a few shows in Switzerland. I had not seen the band live since their show in Bulle back in 2019, so I was really looking forward to it – I could make it to the shows in Sion and at Croc’ The Rock – and they were so much fun, with an incredible setlist. I couldn’t help but sing along and party in the pit while taking photos!

Bass Drum of Death was also one of the first bands I ever interviewed, back in 2014. So almost ten years later, I gathered all my courage and asked the band for a new interview before their show in Sion, and they kindly agreed. Join us as we talk about Bass Drum of Death over the years, life outside of touring, the album Say I Won’t and more.

Many thanks to John, Jim and Ian, and the team at Le Port Franc for making this possible!

I know that you guys were living in New York before Covid, and then you moved back to Mississipi. Are you still living there? What’s a regular day like in your lives when you’re not on tour?

John Barrett: I live in Nashville now, Jim lives in New York and Ian lives in Oxford, Mississipi. So we’re split up, but we all meet back up when it’s time to do a tour or something like that. As far as a regular day for me, it’s waking up pretty early, taking my dog on walks, writing emails and trying to get stuff done in my studio room. Maybe a little golf here and there depending on the day.

Jim Barrett: Very domestic these days! Mine is less so. I stay out late.

John: You’re still a big partier.

Ian Kirkpatrick: Oxford is a bit of a smaller town, so there’s not a whole lot to do. So I hang around, skateboard, play golf and that’s about it. It’s a pretty easy life down in Mississipi.

Awesome! I think it’s nice to live a peaceful life. Especially as a musician, touring can get pretty intense.

Jim: Yeah, on tour I want peace and quiet, and sleep. The opposite of running around! I love being on tour, but I’m counting the days to being in my own bed. Or sitting in a park for a bit and not moving around you know?

John: I love being on tour, but having to be somewhere and physically moving every single day can wear on you a little bit.

Jim: It’s exhausting.

Jim and John Barrett in Sion, through my Nikon.

The project Bass Drum of Death has been going for a while, about 15 years now. I was wondering if you still had the same vision in mind?

John: Yeah, it pretty much stayed the same. The only difference now is that I’ll record demos, bring them to these guys and they will help flesh them out. It’s essentially the same as I’ve always done it, it’s just that I don’t completely finish the songs myself. So it’s a lot better for me, because I can get an idea down, or a rough sketch of what I want. Basically, I don’t have to do every single thing. It makes it a lot easier, and a lot better getting input from different people.

Jim: And it’s fun for us too, because you’ll come in with a demo that you’ve either fully or half finished. You’ll be pumped on it, give it to us and we’ll work on it together. Which is way more how normal bands operate, whereas it used to be 100 % written and recorded and we would just learn the stuff. John is still the band leader, or primary songwriter, but we are able to put our spice on it too.

Ian Kirkpatrick in Sion, through my Nikon.

I think it’s also a great way to keep it entertaining. As a big fan of garage rock, I am happy that Bass Drum of Death has kept going for so long, but I don’t know what it’s like for the musicians.

John: It’s definitely one of the difficult things, just trying not to do the same thing or the same style over and over. You know, I think I kinda got in a good groove making songs that are maybe in a little bit different styles, but still sound like us when we get them all finished. So it is fun, but it is a struggle after so long. Because sometimes you end up writing stuff that you think you ‘should’ sound like and it makes it hard to take some chances.

Jim: I think – especially on the album we put out in January this year (ndlr: Say I Won’t), we had a bunch of talks about this – if we’re not changing some stuff up or adjusting, then we’re dying. If you’re not changing the way you create, then you are just recycling. And that’s not the point. So I think we came to a middle ground of changing the process, especially for John, but still adhering to the same rock and roll aesthetic that he has curated for the last decade or so. Sticking to that as a formula, but changing up the way that we go about it has kept it interesting.

I was thinking that perhaps you would wake up one day and think ‘fuck this, I’m making classical music now’ (laughs)

John: Nothing that drastic, but a jazz record perhaps? (laughs) But that’s the thing, I’m not a good enough musician to do something in these other genres. I should probably just stick to this.

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I know you’ve done a lot of interviews about the recording and the music of your latest album Say I Won’t alreay. So I just have a question about the lyrics of the song Find It. Are they about something in particular?

John: I guess it was specifically more about being in New York, a place where you can find anything you want. And basically, the downsides of that as well.

Jim: That was the main one we wrote during Covid. When we demoe’d it, I feel like it was one of the first songs where we thought ‘Oh, we’re writing a record now’.

What can we expect from Bass Drum of Death in the future?

John: We’ve got a bunch of stuff coming up. We’ve got a live record that we recorded that will be out soon. And hopefully a new record, we’ll be able to do that sometime next year. We’re trying to hit it hard after having such a long break during Covid. We’ll get it going again.

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The 2023 ASB Rugby Awards show in New Zealand on 14 December.

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The 2023 ASB Rugby Awards show in New Zealand on 14 December.

On December 14, Sky Sport will live stream the 2023 ASB Rugby Awards show presentation to commemorate a record-breaking year for rugby in New Zealand. A variety of recognitions for on-and off-field achievements will be given out, including honors for the men’s and women’s teams, coaches, players, and volunteers of the year.

The Te Hāpai New Zealand Rugby Community Impact Award and the Bunnings Warehouse Rugby Club of the Year are two new accolades for 2023 that will honour individuals at the core of our game.

The Rugby Club of the Year award, presented in collaboration with Bunnings Warehouse, will honor a club that has made a major impact on its members and the neighborhood. The ASB Rugby Awards show winning club will get materials and goods from Bunnings worth $5,000 to upgrade and maintain their clubrooms.

A member of a club, school, iwi, Provincial Union, or Super Rugby team who has had a positive influence on their community in the areas of participation, culture, diversity and inclusion, women and girls, mental health and wellbeing, player welfare, or leadership will be recognized with the Te Hāpai award.

According to CEO of New Zealand Rugby Mark Robinson, presenting new awards to recognise those at the core of our sport elevates their contributions.

How to Stream ASB Rugby Awards show 2023 ?

The ASB Rugby Awards show will be live on Sky Sport NZ on the 14th of December. In honor of a year that broke records for rugby in New Zealand, Sky Sport will broadcast the 2023 ASB Rugby Awards live.

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2023 ASB Rugby Award nominees

Thank you to everyone who has been nominated for an award; this is a testament to the dedication and perseverance displayed at all levels of the game, both on and off the field. It’s great to be able to acknowledge the teams and individuals that have contributed to another outstanding rugby season.

ASB Rugby Awards show Fans can be involved by voting for Sky Fans Try of the Year.

New Zealand Rugby Referee of the Year Maggie Cogger-Orr Angus Mabey Ben O’Keeffe

Charles Monro Rugby Volunteer of the Year Chris Fife (Northland) John Hume (Counties Manukau) Sharlene Wiselam (Canterbury) Allen Grainger (Waikato)

Bunnings Warehouse Rugby Club of the Year Tamatea Rugby Sports Clubs (Hawke’s Bay) Auckland University Rugby Football Club (Auckland) Beachlands Maraetai Rugby Club (Counties Manukau)

Te Hāpai New Zealand Rugby Community Impact Award Steven Li (Asian Non-Contact Rugby Program) Te Kahurangi Skelton (Otago Māori Rugby) Richard Perkins (Otago Rugby Football Union)

New Zealand Rugby Age Grade Player of the Year Harry Godfrey (Hawke’s Bay) Macca Springer (Tasman) Angelica Mekeke-Vahai (Auckland)

Ian Kirkpatrick Medal (Bunnings Warehouse Heartland Championship Player of the Year) Siu Kakala (South Canterbury) Stuart Leach (Poverty Bay) Alekesio Vakarorogo (Whanganui)

Duane Monkley Medal (Bunnings Warehouse NPC Player of the Year) Etene Nanai-Seturo (Counties Manukau) Adrian Choat (Auckland) Fergus Burke (Canterbury) Timoci Tavatavanawai (Tasman)

Fiao’o Faamausili Medal (FPC presented by Bunnings Warehouse Player of the Year) Krysten Cottrell (Hawke’s Bay) Laura Bayfield (Canterbury) Kaipo Olsen-Baker (Manawatu)

ASB National Men’s Coach of the Year Nigel Walsh (South Canterbury) Neil Barnes (Taranaki) Scott Robertson (Crusaders)

ASB National Women’s Coach of the Year Rawinia Everitt (Northland) Blair Baxter (Matatū) Willie Walker (Auckland)

ASB New Zealand Coach of the Year All Teams in Black coaches eligible

DHL Super Rugby Pacific Player of the Year Mark Tele’a (Blues) Scott Barrett (Crusaders) Damian McKenzie (Chiefs)

Sky Super Rugby Aupiki Player of the Year Renee Holmes (Matatū) Lucy Jenkins (Matatū) Luka Connor (Chiefs Manawa) Tanya Kalounivale (Chiefs Manawa)

Tom French Memorial Māori Player of the Year Aaron Smith (Ngāti Kahungunu, Manawatu) Billy Harmon (Ngāi Tahu) Stacey Waaka (Ngāi Tūhoe) Arihiana Marino-Tauhinu (Nga Puhi, Ngai Tahuhu)

Richard Crawshaw Memorial All Blacks Sevens Player of the Year Leroy Carter Akuila Rokolisoa Dylan Collier

Black Ferns Sevens Player of the Year Jorja Miller Stacey Waaka Risaleaana Pouri-Lane

Black Ferns Player of the Year Maiakawanakaulani Roos Liana Mikaele-Tu’u Amy du Plessis

All Blacks Player of the Year Jordie Barrett Scott Barrett Ardie Savea Aaron Smith

adidas National Men’s Team of the Year Crusaders Taranaki Bulls South Canterbury

adidas National Women’s Team of the Year Auckland Storm Northland Kauri Matatū

adidas New Zealand Team of the Year All Teams in Black eligible

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