Result: perfect summer-driving soundtrack, whatever time of day or night.
Michaelangelo Matos: Ingredients: circus-organ rave loop, doomsday scenario, pointillist post-punk guitar, the shimmering synth progression Moby forgot to include in his ecstatic ’93-’95 run, and finally - finally - some power chords. Except for when she yelps “dance ’til you’re dead”, Karen O really does make me want to dance, and she is much better at being a synth-rock Chrissie Hynde than anyone has a right to be. And she doesn’t exactly dance me to death even when she doesn’t fade into the mix.Įdward Okulicz: I’m not convinced by the chorus, which lacks the sharpness that would be required to behead and is a bit shrieky, but everything else here seems to work pretty damned well. Thing is, I don’t like It’s Blitz! as much as you probably do the YYYs seem to be savvily incorpoprating more dance-music-type space since the last time I checked in with them, but much of the new album still hits me as really vague - at least in part because Karen O’s already grating voice fades into the mix too much. Megalomaniacal crossover appeal.Ĭhuck Eddy: My favorite track on It’s Blitz!, maybe partly because I have a thing for Alice In Wonderland and pools of blood on the old dancefloor. And what’s really great about this song is that even though plenty of people around here would immediately dock it points at mere intimation of an “impromptu dorm room dance party” (um, including me), I’m betting it’s still going to do pretty well. Pharrell Williamsĭave Moore: I don’t think any other single song has warped me back to an impromptu dorm room dance party so effectively in recent memory. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).“Heads Will Roll” has maintained an enduring presence in pop music. For instance, the A-Trax remix has appeared in the movies Project X (2012) and Goosebumps (2015), in addition to the videogame DJ Hero 2 (2010). Later in 2011, the cast of Glee performed this song, mashed-up with “ Thriller” (1982) by Michael Jackson (which the aforementioned video is said to have been inspired by). Said rendition broke onto the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 and thus became the first track written by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to do so.
Additionally it has been certified gold in Belgium, Germany and the UK. Meanwhile the track was more solidly successful, topping Billboard’s Hot Dance Singles Sales chart as well as the Ultratop 50 Flanders in Belgium. The Richard Ayoade-directed music video features a nod to Michael Jackson (who died just days before “Heads Will Roll” was released) and went on to be nominated for a MTV Video Music Awards. And the clip itself is also known for being quite graphic. In fact Interscope had not intended to release this song as a single until the aforementioned remix rather blew up. This song was made public on 29 June 2009 as the second single from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ third album, It’s Blitz. It has become better known by its remix as rendered by a Canadian DJ named A-Trak, which also came out in 2009. And it is a bit strange, so to speak, that partygoers would take a liking to a song with such dark lyrics. And it should be noted that ravers happens to be some of the band’s biggest fans. It would therefore be strange for the band members to criticize this category of people.īut that being said, there is definitely some type of horror motif going on here. In other words, whereas the lyrics are intentionally macabre, there doesn’t seem to be any direct indication that the band actually meant it to be a criticism of ravers. And what we also know is that when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs wrote it, they were actually seeking to put together a tune that “was just fun to write”.
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