KennyHoopla has launched his new single “NEW AMERICA//” that includes Albert Hammond Jr. of the Strokes.
“NEW AMERICA//” displays on persistent social inequality, inherited trauma, and the usually misleading notion of progress in up to date America. The track, which was first teased three years in the past throughout a efficiency in Chicago, showcases KennyHoopla’s continued creative development and options Hammond Jr.’s signature guitar method.
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“At its core, ‘NEW AMERICA//’ is a cynical play on phrases,” Kenny says. “Fashionable society sells us a imaginative and prescient of ‘newness,’ however beneath the contemporary paint, America is simply making the mattress however hiding the mess beneath it. Historical past is being rebuilt with the very same outdated bricks; the home is only a completely different colour, and the inspiration continues to be stained by yesterday’s blood. We’re nonetheless preventing the identical battles for equality that our elders fought, however the battle has moved from the streets to the display screen.
“Each ounce of trauma is just repurposed,” he continues. “Tragically, our progress is all the time paid for by martyrs, forcing us to lose somebody or one thing simply to realize an inch. The central lyric, ‘We’re falling up, it’s the story of my technology,’ captures this exhausting cycle. Nearly successful accidentally. Slightly than providing a neat answer, this track is an evaluation of our present actuality greater than it’s in any respect a solution. That is my try and make my very own private political aimed anthem for my technology that I’d need to hear with my perspective.”
“Working with Kenny on this was so particular. He’s positively one among a sort. I’m blissful folks can lastly hear it,” Hammond Jr. provides.
Subsequent month, KennyHoopla will start a help slot opening up for Younger the Large throughout North America.
Take heed to “NEW AMERICA//” under.
