- 2024-11-23
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MUSIC
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Olly Alexander Releases New Song “Polari”
Last month, London-based singer-songwriter Olly Alexander, formerly Years & Years, announce his debut solo album “Polari” would be released on February 7, 2025 via Polydor Records.
From the album, he unveiled the title track as the third single along with a music video on November 22, 2024.
He co-wrote the song with producer Danny L Harle.
The accompanying video was directed by Colin Solal Cardo.
Olly Alexander said of the song, “In the 'lost gay language' of Polari, “Polari” means 'to speak'. I was very inspired by how we communicate with each other and what it means to speak a secret language, something I think we all do in some form or another with the people we're close to. In our hyper connected world of fractured communication it's not easy to trust that anything is what it seems, I felt that a song about vernacular should be as wild and unpredictable as the history of Polari itself.”- He continued, “I had such a great time making this bijou song with Danny L Harle and taking musical inspiration from the past, the present and the distant future. This is track 1 on the album and is intended as a shot of adrenaline and jumpstart the car kind of introduction because I'm about to take you for a ride - it's also a bit of an audio collage of all the music that follows so I'm very excited to put this out! Please enjoy and thank you for listening!”
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The new album comprises 13 songs, produced by Produced by Danny L Harle and Finn Keane.
The album is his first project under his own name, Olly Alexander.
It is the first album in three years since 2022 album “Night Call” as Years & Years.
Polari means a coded slang. Originating around Europe and the Romani community as early as the 1600s, Polari became a secret language for homosexuals and other marginalized groups during the twentieth century. - source : Apple Music
