Communication expert - #PR, #SocialMedia, #DigitalMarketing. Half of @Clayfeet_band
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Jun 14
D&D alignment, applied to eighteen one-hit wonders, because every season needs a reckoning.
#dungeonsandragons #onehitwonder #alignmentchart
#onehitwonders
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Jun 11
Sometimes a song is set in a specific place, was inspired by a location, or is linked to the scene where it was written.
99 Luftballons, Here We Go, In The Year 2525 and more: check out the cities related to these songs through the eyes of Rothko.
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May 31
Two men from Nebraska wrote a song about the end of everything.
One built guitars. The other is gone.
#onehitwonder
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May 28
Gil Scott-Heron, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Zager & Evans. Songs that described the future before it arrived. The ones who were optimistic about the harmonious tomorrow aged much worse.
Anxiety travels further than hope, apparently.
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May 24
Written as sarcasm in the worst year of Black’s life. Became one of the most reassuring songs of the decade.
He died in a car crash 30 years later – the same way that worst year had started.
#onehitwonder
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May 21
Wonderful Life, Lust for Life, Spaceman, Bohemian Like You…
The distance between what a song was written about and what it ends up selling can be enormous. Despair, heroin, misrepresentation, obscurity - the ad doesn't care. It just needs a sound that fits thirty seconds.
#music
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May 19
Born in the USA: a bitter portrait of a discarded veteran. Politicians used it as an anthem.
Every Breath You Take is a restraining order set to music. It's one of the most played songs at weddings.
Gaps that never close.
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May 14
1930s, 1970s, 1990s
Same phrase, in entirely different contexts, for entirely different reasons.
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May 12
The bedroom didn’t revolutionise music. It just quietly became a place where music gets made.
#bedroomproducer
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May 10
Temple of Love’ is the Sisters’ biggest hit and their least representative song. The 1983 original belongs to the fans. The 1992 version belongs to everyone else.
Eldritch has spent 30 years avoiding a follow-up to an album released two years before the song that defined him.
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May 7
From Smells Like Teen Spirit to Creep: Sometimes the hit is wrong about the artist. Sometimes it’s just pointing somewhere else.
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May 5
Nick Cavee and Kylie Minogue, Joey Ramone and Ronnie Spector.
The interesting collaborations are the ones when there’s genuine distance between the two worlds. When the gap closes, the friction disappears.
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Apr 30
‘Tainted Love’?
Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn‘?
‘Venus’?
Covers that took the original’s place.
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Apr 28
In the early twentieth century, The Netherlands had its own kind of pop music and superstars. This week’s story starts, in a way, in that world.
beyondthehit.substack.com/p/…
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Apr 26
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the #Chernobyl disaster. But what does this song have to do with it?
open.substack.com/pub/beyond…
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Apr 23
Sometimes a series of small accidents accumulate until a song becomes unavoidable.
Read more: beyondthehit.substack.com/p/…
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Apr 21
For most of pop history, a song’s fate depended on a person with access. Then social media arrived, and the gatekeeper stopped being a person.
The gatekeeper changed. The luck didn’t.
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/beyond…
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Apr 19
A Swedish designer makes one song. Then makes a miniseries. One of them you’ve probably forgotten. The other? Impossible.
#onehitwonder
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