NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

MUNA  is an alternative pop group composed of three friends who studied together at the  University of Southern California . The trio self-produced their debut EP and uploaded it to  Bandcamp  and  SoundCloud . The band's success with their debut EP led to the group signing with  RCA  records and releasing their 2017 debut record,  About U.   In May 2021, the band announced that they had signed to  Phoebe Bridgers '  Saddest Factory  record label. The group recently released the single " Silk Chiffon " which features Bridgers singing a verse. The song is one of the group's few singles to chart on  Billboard , peaking at #35 on the US Alternative chart.  KEEPIN' IT LIGHT LIKE SILK CHIFFON.  I think I first heard MUNA in the awkward teen comedy  Alex Strangelove ,  a story about a high school senior who is struggling to understand his sexuality. All the members of MUNA identify as queer, though, as a lyricist lead singer  Katie Gavin  often avoided pronouns in t

  Back in 2010, we learned that yes, a pickle can get more likes than  Nickelback , a band that had become the most hated  "butt rock"  band in the mid-'00s. In fact, the conclusions of the social media study found that a pickle had more likes than Oprah Winfrey or other beloved figures. It turns out that internet users' hate outweighs Internet love, or the terrible outweighs the good. In 2014, the most hated rock band would become  U2  after their release of  Songs of Innocence   was forced into every  iTunes user's library. People tried everything to scrub the songs from their shuffle. Today, people have mostly forgotten about Nickelback, and Apple Music no longer comes standard with that U2 album, so people have other musical axes to grind. Justin Bieber has grown up and is no longer blaring in our cultural continuousness. So who is the most hated band these days? After the 2019 Super Bowl,   Maroon 5 , for taking to the stage when the NFL was in the middle of

Everyday Sunday   was a Christian Rock band from Ohio that grew in popularity thanks to   RadioU   and   TVU , which aired their played their independent music alongside other major Christian rock acts. The band signed to   Flicker Records   in 2002 before the label folded and then signed to   Peter Furler 's   Inpop Records   before going independent in 2013. The band was mostly forgotten with the countless Christian Rock bands of the early '00s, until lead singer Trey Pearson made headlines in May 2016. Pearson had recently divorced his wife of seven and half years. The couple had two children and the divorce was amicable, but Pearson came out to his wife and his family as gay. I MADE IT TO THE OTHER SIDE/ AND I SAW YOU.   In May 2016, Trey Pearson came out publicly--career suicide for almost everyone hoping to stay in the Christian music industry. But with a changing music climate in which independent artists have a larger platform and with a broader LGBTQ community and all

  The two biggest upcoming Korean girl groups these days are NewJeans and IVE . The two groups follow in a long line of girl K-pop traditions following a reign of male K-pop bands. Of course there's BLACKPINK who is headlining a night at Coachella later this year. G(i)dle and Twice are still making music. But the omnipresence of NewJeans' " Ditto " and IVE's " Love Dive " on Instagram, in the Korean grocery stores, cafes,   clubs and bars in Korea, K-pop clubs in WEHO--practically everywhere.  I'M REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT YOU.  "Love Dive" has the musical  a bas  for an electric dance track--a marching beat, musical change ups between verse, bridge, and chorus creating multiple hooks, with sound waves expanding and diffracting at key moments to keep listeners interested. In addition to the song itself, the school girl uniforms  the members of IVE wear  in a few of the scenes are reminiscent of Britney Spears ' classic " ...Baby One

  My blog hasn't been properly introduced to Lorde . Ella Yelich-O'Connor became a superstar at the age of sixteen when her hit " Royals " became a global success.  Her sophomore record Melodrama , recorded with Jack Antonoff, explored the artist's growing up in the midst of partying and becoming an adult. And in 2021, Lorde and Antonoff produced another  record, Solar Power . Unlike her previous works, Solar Power wasn't as well received. CAUGHT IN THE COMPLEX DIVORCE OF THE SEASONS.  One of the reasons I think that Solar Power wasn't well received was for its unconventional, often experimental song structures. Both the first and second tracks on Solar Power, today's song " The Path " and the eponymous track follow a pattern of getting to the chorus at the end of the song. It's the diametric opposition to the "don't bore us, get to the chorus" typical in radio pop music. However, there is another reason why Solar Power fai

In 2012, Tyler Ward released  Hello. Love. Heartbreak,  an EP that would shift his music back to originals rather than covers. Before YouTube, the singer-songwriter struggled to find a following, playing local gigs and recording his music at home, practicing his production on himself. He had uploaded covers of popular songs, but didn't get a following until he had heard that famous singers were going to record a new version of "We Are the World." So before the new version of 'We Are the World" was uploaded to YouTube, Ward covered the song, and for a short time, his version was the first video that appeared when viewers searched for the song! Viewers then started subscribing to Tyler's YouTube channel, discovering his cover songs, and today the singer has 2 million subscribers. I COULD HEAR MY SONG PLAYING ON THE RADIO. Thanks to YouTube and Patreon, Tyler Ward has built a successful YouTube music model. Like fellow YouTubers Kurt Hugo Schneider, Sam Tsui, a

  Fleetwood Mac 's best known record is  Rumors ,  their 1977 album featuring the vocals of  Lindsey Buckingham  and  Stevie Nicks . However, these members had been recent additions. Formed in 1967 in the UK with drummer  Mick Fleetwood  and bassist John "Mac" McVie , the band went through numerous iterations before arriving on the pop charts with their most well-known line up. The subject matter of the hit album is the relationship drama behind the scenes with the band. It's truly a fascinating story of change and rock 'n' roll development that saw the band change from a '60s blues rock band to a late '70s hitmaker, with a guitarist who left due to schizophrenia, another guitarist abandoning the group while on tour to join a California sex-evangelism cult, a turbulent marriage between the keyboardist Christine McVie and bass player, and then there's Stevie Nicks. WE CAN CALL IT ANOTHER LONELY DAY.  I don't have much memory of “ Go Your Own Wa