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Piri
Sophie Leigh McBurnie (born 14 March 1999), known professionally as Piri, is an English musician. Born in Rochdale, she is half of the band Piri & Tommy and an original member of the female and genderqueer collective Loud LDN. Three of her works as half of Piri & Tommy have entered the UK charts: their 2021 single " Soft Spot" reached No. 20 on the UK Independent Singles Breakers Chart, their 2022 single " On & On" went to No. 99 on the UK Singles Chart, and their 2022 mixtape '' Froge.mp3'' made No. 13 on the UK Dance Albums Chart. "Soft Spot" was ranked No. 59 on ''Rolling Stone''s "200 Greatest Dance Songs of All Time" in July 2022, while their 2022 works "Words", "On & On", and ''Froge.mp3'', and their cover of Charli XCX and Kim Petras's "Unlock It" all appeared on year-end best-of lists. In addition, she co-wrote the Illit song "Magnetic", which charted at No. 80 on the UK Singles Chart, and has been named as an influence by Caity Baser. Life and career 1999–2020: E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Froge
''Froge.mp3'' () is the debut mixtape by Piri & Tommy. Released on 21 October 2022 and on vinyl on 22 April 2023 on Polydor Records, the mixtape contains "Sunlight", previous singles " Soft Spot", " Beachin", "Words", and " On & On", focus track "Say It", and six additional tracks. The album was promoted by both Froge.tour, a nine-date tour, and ''Froge.tv'', a twelve-episode YouTube Shorts series. Critical reception was broadly positive, with ''Gigwise'' describing the album as the 45th best album of 2022, ''NME'' rating it amongst the twenty best mixtapes and EPs of 2022, and Ellie Dixon rating it as her favourite album of the year. Additionally, the mixtape charted at No. 13 on the UK Dance Albums Chart. Background In 2020, just before the second United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown, Piri matched on Tinder with Tommy Villiers, a member of the band Porij. A couple of weeks later, one of the band's photographers retweeted one of their photo shoots, prompting her to find his In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On & On (Piri & Tommy Song)
"On & On" (stylised in lowercase) is a liquid drum and bass song by Piri & Tommy, from their mixtape '' Froge.mp3''. Released on 28 July 2022 on Polydor Records, the track was written after the pair attended that year's Parklife Festival. The song premiered as BBC Radio 1's "Hottest Record"song charted at No. 99 on the UK Singles Chart and received positive reception, with ''Time Out'', ''The Forty Five'', ''NME'', ''Dancing Bears'', and ''Billboard'' rating it on their year-end best of lists. A music video was released on 12 October 2022 to promote ''Froge.mp3''. Background and composition In 2020, just before the second United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown, Piri matched on Tinder with Tommy Villiers, a member of the band Porij. A couple of weeks later, one of the band's photographers retweeted one of their photo shoots, prompting her to find his Instagram account and ask him out. The pair released " Soft Spot" in June 2021, which went viral on TikTok and Spotify, prompting EM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soft Spot (song)
"Soft Spot" (stylised in lowercase) is a liquid drum and bass song, first released independently on 4 June 2021, where it was credited to Piri. After she paid six TikTok creators to promote the song, the song was used in a video of a creator making a Japanese bench, which caused the song to go viral on that platform. Around this time, the track went viral on Spotify after featuring on the platform's "Fresh Finds" playlist. For this, EMI signed her and her producer Tommy Villiers and re-released the track under the name Piri & Tommy Villiers. The song appeared on the pair's 2022 mixtape '' Froge.mp3''. Critical reception for the song was overwhelmingly positive, with ''Pitchfork'' comparing Piri's voice with Ariana Grande, ''Rolling Stone'' listing it as the fifty-ninth best dance song of all time, and ''NME'' noting that the song was "right up there with PinkPantheress and, er, sea shanties" as one of TikTok’s "biggest hits". In addition, the song spent a week on the UK Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unlock It
"Unlock It" is a song by English singer Charli XCX featuring German singer Kim Petras and American rapper Jay Park. It was released on 11 December 2017 as the first promotional single from XCX's fourth mixtape '' Pop 2'' (2017). The track samples A. G. Cook's "Beautiful" and premiered on Zane Lowe's ''Beats 1'' show on the day of release. Reviewers praised "Unlock It", especially its lyrics. A mashup of the song with Tinashe's " Superlove" went viral on TikTok in 2021, shortly after which XCX renamed the track "Unlock It (Lock It)". In 2022, Piri & Tommy released a cover that ''Vice'' rated as the 14th best song of 2022. Background and release XCX scrapped her planned third studio album, christened ''XCX World'' by fans, after it was leaked. She first mentioned the idea of making ''Pop 2'' to A. G. Cook in late September 2017 while he was in New York. The pair started work once Cook was back in London and recorded the body of it at Oven Studios, with the whole mixtape takin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loud LDN
Loud LDN is a British collective of female and gender-expansive artists based in London. Formed in May 2022 by Coupdekat and Maisi as a WhatsApp group chat called Ladies Making Noise in London, the chat started off with ten members including Piri and Matilda Cole and later added Caity Baser, Venbee, Issey Cross, Charlotte Plank, and Bshp. The chat expanded into its own Instagram page and eventually into its own events before moving to Discord. One UK Singles Chart in 2023 featured five entries from Loud LDN members. History Loud LDN is a women-run collective of women and gender-expansive artists based in London. It was founded in May 2022 by musicians Coupdekat and Maisi; Maisi came across one of Coupdekat's songs on TikTok and invited her for brunch, where they discussed the loneliness of being a woman in the music industry and how they were often pitted against each other. This prompted them to set up a group chat on WhatsApp called Ladies Making Noise in London for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys are an English Rock music, rock band formed in Sheffield in 2002. They comprise lead singer Alex Turner, drummer Matt Helders, guitarist Jamie Cook and bassist Nick O'Malley. The co-founder and original bassist Andy Nicholson left in 2006. Arctic Monkeys were one of the first bands to come to public attention via the Internet, with commentators suggesting they represented a change in how new bands are promoted and marketed. Their debut album, ''Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'' (2006), received acclaim and topped the UK Albums Chart, becoming the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history at the time. It won Brit Award for British Album of the Year, Best British Album at the 2007 Brit Awards and has been hailed as one of the greatest debut albums. The band's second album, ''Favourite Worst Nightmare'' (2007), was also acclaimed and won Best British Album at the 2008 BRIT Awards, 2008 Brit Awards. ''Humbug (album), Humbug'' (2009) and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a town in Greater Manchester, England, and the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale. In the United Kingdom 2021 Census, 2021 Census, the town had a population of 111,261, compared to 223,773 for the wider borough. Rochdale is in the foothills of the South Pennines and lies in the Dale (landform), dale (valley) of the River Roch, north-west of Oldham and north-east of Manchester. Rochdale's recorded history begins with an entry in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Recedham Manor'', but can be traced back to the 9th century. The Rochdale (ancient parish), ancient parish of Rochdale was a division of the Salford Hundred and one of the larger ecclesiastical parishes in England, comprising several Township (England), townships. By 1251, the town had become of such importance that it was granted a royal charter. The town became a centre of northern England's woollen trade and, by the early 18th century, was described as being "remarkable for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip Hop Music
Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music Music genre, genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African Americans, African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hip-hop includes rapping often enough that the terms can be used synonymously. However, "hip-hop" more properly denotes an entire hip-hop culture, subculture. Other key markers of the genre are the disc jockey, turntablism, scratching, beatboxing, and hip hop production, instrumental tracks. Cultural interchange has always been central to the hip-hop genre. It simultaneously borrows from its social environment while commenting on it. The hip-hop genre and culture emerged from block parties in ethnic minority neighborhoods of New York City, particularly The Bronx, Bronx. DJs began expanding the instrumental Break (music), breaks of popular records when they noticed how excited it would make the crowds. The extend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caity Baser
Caity Baser (born 7 July 2002) is an English singer-songwriter from Southampton, based in Brighton. She has had four entries on the UK Singles Chart; "X & Y", which charted at No. 91, "Pretty Boys", which peaked at number 26, "Feels This Good", a Sigala feature which also featured Mae Muller and Stefflon Don, which peaked at number 93 and "Dance Around It" with Joel Corry, which peaked at number 61. She is also a member of Loud LDN. Early and personal life Baser was born in Southampton, educated at Thornden School and Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, and is currently based in Brighton. Career 2020–2021: Beginnings Baser started posting videos to TikTok during the first UK lockdown, following an epiphany that she did not care what other people thought of her music. In August 2020, she released "Average Student", a song about feeling lost in life, which acquired 1,000,000 views on TikTok, which prompted a management agency to direct message her and invite her to a London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
