June 2021: “Remember” by Becky Hill and David Guetta is released in the UK.
February 2022 (to my knowledge): received its first airplay on radio in Australia and ended up being the second-most played song for the year (only Harry Styles’ “As It Was” was played more times)
August 2022: peaked at #34 on the ARIA Charts.
I wonder what the reason for the staggered milestones were. Also, it received its first airplay here after “My Heart Goes (La Di Da)” was played frequently over the 2021-22 summer; even though it was released before the said song.
I don’t “Remember” how that song started becoming popular in Australia, some eight months after it was released, to be honest.
But what I do know was that “I’m Good (Blue)” (Guetta’s collaboration with Bebe Rexha) became an instant global success after a video featuring a snippet of that song went viral on TikTok; at the time the song was not yet complete so Guetta and Rexha collaborated to finish it, and within days we had a global smash hit which continues to be played around the world to this day.
I would say Remember is a much, much better tune than I’m Good (Blue), which feels like a 2009 party tune that was rediscovered last year in lyrics and melody (acknowledging that it interpolates Eiffel 65’s much better song).
you make it sound like it was ancient, it’s less than six months old.
That I definitely agree with, it’s not hard to know why it was the second-most played song on radio in Australia last year, with its excellent production and Becky’s vocals. I find “I’m Good (Blue)” to be overplayed on radio, which I find annoying, though I do understand why it hit number one in more than twenty countries as it interpolates a late-90s classic as you alluded to.
In between, Guetta and Hill had another collaboration with (another forgotten artist in) Ella Henderson, titled “Crazy What Love Can Do”. Many music fans would remember Henderson for her 2014 song “Ghost”, which still remains a favourite of mine.
Reaction very early seems very mixed, with seemingly Rihanna fans saying it was “amazing” (no surprises), but if you type the mentions “terrible” or “awful” etc into a social media paltform, there’s hundreds and hundreds by the minute slamming the performance.
Personally, while I’ve always liked Rihanna as an artist and enjoyed a few of her hits, I found it rather disappointing. It was only good at the very end, she saved one of her originals from 16 years ago (“Umbrella”) and one from a few years later and arguably becoming her biggest (“Diamonds”) to finish with the crescendo.
It’s a tough balance I guess, priority number 1 is the Choreography, execution is non negotiable. Audio less relevant, anything that the performer can contribute on top of the background audio is a bonus I guess.
Just looks a bit messy when the lip sync is a bit off, can be done very well if everything lines up. I guess she hasn’t done a live in 7 years, we will cut her some slack!
I see “Umbrella” is already doing the rounds, in part thanks to everyone flashing back to Spider Man Tom Holland’s unforgettable (unfortunately) impression a couple of years ago on Lip Sync Battle
The track listing for Mimi Webb’s debut album “Amelia” has been unveiled via this message that she posted on Twitter. However, the names of the songs that you see in it are not in the order in which they’ll appear on the album - that’s still to be determined.
Why did King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and Sampa the Great, pull out of Bluesfest over the past conduct of just one member of another band? Would the three bands have shared the same stage? Same dressing room? Would the three bands have had to meet face to face beforehand?
With the music industry still recovering from COVID pandemic, festivals like Bluesfest are great opportunity to earn an income. The bands should leave personal feud to one side and attend.
Because they believe that Bluesfest should not have invited him and the band to perform based on his behaviour.
Sticky Fingers went on a year-long hiatus after allegations surfaced in 2016 that Frost had abused and threatened the musician Thelma Plum and her boyfriend outside a Sydney hotel.
In the same year, Frost was accused of shouting racist remarks at a gig headlined by an Indigenous punk band. He has since publicly denied these claims and was quoted in reports saying: “Rumours have been spread around suggesting that I’m racist. That is complete bullshit.”
Soon after the band returned to performing, Frost was allegedly ejected from a Sydney pub after a verbal altercation with a transgender person, in which he allegedly screamed and swore at her.
