- 2022-08-11
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MUSIC
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Releases New Song “Burning”
Back in June, American alt-rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, consisting of Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase, announced their upcoming fifth studio album “Cool It Down” would be released on September 30, 2022.
It is their first album in nine years since the 2013 album “Mosquito”.
From the album, the band released the second single called “Burning” on August 10, 2022, following “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” featuring Perfume Genius.
The band first performed the song at the Terragram Ballroom back in May.
The track was written by Bob Gaudio, Brian Chase, Karen O, Nick Zinner and Peggy Farina. Produced by Andrew Wyatt.
The band has already shot a music video for the song, which will be premiered on August 12, 2022.
Karen O shared on social media, “Back when I was 19 living in the east village one night a roommate dragged me out of the apartment for an impromptu drink across the street, I left a votive candle burning on a plastic yaffa block which in my absence set flame to my room. Within an hour and a half of having one drink down the block firefighters had come and gone extinguishing the fire, I came home to find that a natural disaster had occurred (to my room) and most of my stuff lost in the flames.”- vSffKUyr0lk
She continued, All electronic goods were melted and demolished like my laptop, cameras etc. but oddly enough the items that held the most sentimental value remained intact like sketchbooks, a favorite sweater with hearts across the chest, and photographs. I had photos of my parents in their youth where the fire burnt around the two of them as if there was some intangible forcefield protecting them, many photos like that, mysteriously leaving the beloved subjects untouched.”
Sha added, “If the world is on fire I hope the most beloved stay protected and that we do all we can to protect what we cherish most in this life. Burning is a song about that feeling, smoke signals for the soul. Begging to cool it down, just doing it the best we know how. Nick and I nodded to Frankie Valli's Begging, with the line “oooh lay your red hand on me baby” we've cut a rug to many a soulful sixties bangers in our day, it was in our DNA by the time we wrote Burning.”-
Photo by Jason Al-Taan
Background photo by Cally Begg - source : Apple Music
