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Tracklist & Release Date for Gorillaz' "Song Machine" Confirmed!

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Gorillaz, the band with animated characters as the members has been releasing "episodes" or singles for their newest album,  Song Machine , since the beginning of 2020. All of these songs have included features and is clearly meant to be a common theme for all the songs on the album. This has led to lots of speculation over what artists will be featured next as it seems like the roll out for this album will be song by song. The speculation is over, however, over after the tracklist and release date has been released. The tracklist contains artists such as slowthai, EarthGang, JPEGMAFIA, and even Elton John and 6LACK on the same song. Many of these artists many people would've never expected to collaborate with Gorillaz much less that we'd see Elton John, 6LACK, and Gorillaz all on the same song. It just seems like 3 completely different worlds which is what makes it such a potential smashing hit. The release date has also been announced as October 23rd and there will ...

"WAP"'s Chart Dominance Says A Lot About Our Society

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Cardi B -  "WAP"   feat. Megan Thee Stallion has been charting very well since its release. It debuted at number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart and stayed there for another week. Currently it is sitting at #2, only topped by BTS' new single which broke the YouTube record for most views in 24 hours. Billboard also wrote an article announcing that the song was on track to be #1 this upcoming week. The song's success is very clear to even someone who isn't a huge fan of music as the song is also getting major radio play. This is a huge leap in artistic expression and even BBC Radio, which has very strict guidelines on what can and cannot be played, has played the song on its radio stations and even has it at #1 on its charts. BBC Radio banned Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen on May 31, 1977 which didn't have any explicit lyrics but instead criticized the queen of England and claimed the UK was a fascist regime. A song like that, nowadays, wouldn't even b...

The Longest Song Ever is Even Longer Than you Think

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The longest song ever is even longer than you think. In fact, it is still being played today. The song, which is entitled  " Organ2/ASLSP, ", began playing in 2001 and will finish playing in 2640. The song's length  will total 639 years if the instrument survives that long. The song has become somewhat of a tourist attraction where m any people show up to the small town every time the chord changes which happens seldom. So seldom , in fact, that the second to last chord change was on October 5, 2013 and the most recent chord change was on September 5, 2020. The next chord change will take place February 5, 2022. The  song is being performed by an organ which can theoretically play a song forever because  an organ pushes air out of tubes to play specific notes. Instead of the keys being played by a person they are played by sandbags which weigh them down to be played. The instrument is located in a church in the small German town of  Halberstadt. The piece was co...