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Baby One More Time has been uncovered, and it's not what we thought at all. Seventeen years after its release, John Seabrook has solved the mystery in his new pop music history book The Song Machine, according to The Huffington Post. The track was penned by Swedish songwriter Max Martin and Swedish/Moroccan songwriter Rami Yacoub, about a girl who has just split up with her boyfriend. The two Swedes thought that "hit" was slang for "call" in the states and so penned the lyrics as a way of saying "call me baby one more time". Of course, "hit me up" is regularly used in this context, but wi...

“Is anybody out there? Hello? Can you hear us?” In a cavernous secret warehouse, there’s a party underway that would bring Matt Hancock to actual tears. Surrounded by motorbikes, horse-headed dummies, mysterious monoliths, shelves of bizarre bric-a-brac and amps and curtains scrawled with slogans – “STAY NEGATIVE”, “INNATE RASHES”, “IT’S BETTER TO SLEEP WITH A SOBER CANNIBAL THAN A DRUNK CHRISTIAN” – a motley crew of soul kings, bovver boys, rappers, indie heroes, druids and holograms are caught up in some wild midday revelry. It’s a miracle that, in almost 90 minute...

Copy to Clipboard Gorillaz (Getty Images) Thanks to Covid-19, virtual concerts are now becoming a new trend among musicians to stay in touch with their fans and entertain their audience with new music. After Dua Lipa and Louis Tomlinson planned their respective virtual concerts, it is now the British virtual band Gorillaz who are all set to enthrall their fans with a virtual concert called Song Machine Live. The award-winning band was created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett. What sets the band apart is that it consists of four animated members namely 2-D, Murdoc Nicc...

One-time pop star and acclaimed Mixmag columnist the Secret DJ continues to chronicle the last 30-plus years of dance music’s evolution as a superstar DJ before it all went pear-shaped. Yet Book Two is not a direct follow-up to the biographical The Secret DJ: From Ibiza To the Norfolk Broads. Rather, they take a more anthropological approach, recounting the purity of a youth movement falling prey to gentrification and filthy lucre. “No one in publishing would have the balls to touch this book with a bargepole,” the Secret DJ said in a statement on the Velocity website. “It takes co...

“It’s very apocalyptic. There isn’t even anyone at reception any more.” Damon Albarn has just begun his umpteenth Zoom call of the year from a hotel room in south London. Having spent lockdown with family in his remote Devon farmhouse, the Blur frontman and Gorillaz mastermind is back on home turf, knee-deep in rehearsals for one of his most ambitious projects to date. Admittedly, it feels a bit redundant speaking in such terms when you consider that the Gorillaz story has felt like one prolonged peak throughout the 21st century. Yet, for all its obvious strains, 2020 remains a landma...