Years and years night call5/19/2023 ![]() imagining what it would be like to be on a dance floor, or at a disco or a club, and you would hear Donna Summer "I Feel Love" and you would just completely lose your mind. I love that music, but I returned to this music that made me feel good and the 80s music that just came back into my life, really, from It's A Sin. My clubbing days were my early 20s and at that time, stuff that was just getting played in the clubs was like Disclosure and Skbtrkt and Little Dragon. I had lots of stuff like Sylvester, Hooked on Classics, Erasure and Pet Shop Boys present in my mind.ĭance music is so broad, obviously, it just encompasses so much. We were all listening to eighties music every day. ![]() Just before the first lockdown, I'd spent three months making It's A Sin, which was set in the 80s and it had such a great soundtrack. Who are the artists who have inspired you in dance music? What do you learn from them? So I just put it all into an album basically to try and create it for myself. And because I was just missing physical connection - I'd been single for a while and then I was just like, well, I haven't had sex for almost a year - just feeling really like I was missing all of those things. Even when I'm at home, in my flat, just move around and try and feel good. I don't wanna take a breath in that way, I just wanna move around. But the music that I was listening to was, well, the music that I love - a lot of dance music. I live alone and I actually crave alone time, but so much of it made me really insular and made me not wanna do anything. I was spending so much time alone, like a lot of people. Also, the entire world changed in 2020, so I felt like the music needed to change. I had a real meltdown, just feeling like nothing was right with the music I've been working on. What was the key to unlocking this headspace or state of mind to create this record? But it took a while to really figure that out. ![]() They've gotta feel like, yeah, I'm not ashamed to ask for what I want either. When people hear it, they've gotta feel that for themselves. Then I was like, Oh, this is the number one thing, now I understand what the album's gotta be. ![]() It was so fun, then, to go to the studio, because I would inhabit this part of myself that felt quite new and really exciting and just see what happened. I was just mixing it all together and trying to find this character that was confident and expressed themselves in the music. Ahead of partnering with Hot Since 82, Alexander previously enlisted dance producer Navos to create a heightened, hypnotic remix of “Sweet Talker,” which coincided with the release of Years & Years’ third studio album, Night Call.īuy or stream Years & Years remix of “100% Pure Love.Spending all this time alone, as well, made me reach for a part of my character that's quite minimal sometimes, but that you can really explore as a performer and as a writer. Originally released in November 2021, the synth-heavy “Sweet Talker” found Alexander collaborating with Galantis, the best-selling collaborative project led by Christian Karlsson aka Bloodshy ( Katy Perry, Little Mix, Britney Spears, Madonna). While the original mix of “Sweet Talker” offers plenty of high-energy moments, Hot Since 82’s reimagined version transforms the song into a euphoric club hit, complete with sporadic vocal samples. The singer, actor, fashion icon, and cultural vanguard has now earned five Brit Award nominations, surpassed 4.4 billion global streams, and made headlines around the world with award-winning TV show, It’s A Sin.īack in March, Alexander delivered a fresh remix of his hit single, “Sweet Talker,” courtesy of the award-winning Leeds-based producer and DJ, Hot Since 82. Bringing the subversive, hedonistic and ultimately feel-good world around his new music to light, the UK leg of The Night Call Tour also featured a first-of-its-kind, all-queer lineup of talent–befitting Years & Years’ trailblazing influence on modern pop. Years & Years’ widely-acclaimed The Night Call Tour continues this month with dates across Australia, following appearances this summer ranging from Olly’s incredible Glastonbury performance to a homecoming show at London’s Wembley Arena. ![]()
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