Danny Elfman - Happy (Single)

[Rubin Farr]

First new single from the man in 36 years, has a kind of Jack Skellington vibe to it, then he goes aggro for a few minutes.  Who knew he had a sleeve?

https://music.apple.com/us/album/happy-single/1534699095

https://www.spin.com/2020/10/danny-elfman-releases-happy-new-song/

[Cryptowen]

he's more yoked than i would have expected for an old dude who spends all day makin music for tim burton

but yah listening to his 90s OST work in middle school was largely responsible for my transition to listening to actual music from previously having listened exclusively to halloween sound fx tapes from dollarama. and listening to oingo boingo in high school was my transition from listening to just soundtracks to listening to music with beats in it

much like oingo boingo this new track is an interesting combination of "rich boomer who's a little too self-consciously quirky" and "talented composer writing a rock song while taking inspiration strictly from circus music"

Edited October 29, 2020 by Cryptowen

[Rubin Farr]

 

[IDEM]

 I'm in-diff'rent, diff'rent ... 

And I just watchedThe Nightmare Before Christmas again for the umpteenth time, so nice ...

[xyrofen]

Weird counterpart to Faceshopping.

[Braintree]

That was a lot better than I thought it would be.

[gnarlybog]

Great video and cool song. Not something you'd expect from a guy in his late 60s.
Sent me down a Oingo Boingo spiral.

[Rubin Farr]

Now he’s Sorry

Edit: there will be a new single on the 11th of every month

[Cryptowen]

tbh i had kinda written danny elfman off 15+ years ago as seemingly being content to just write variations on the same half dozen OST styles for the rest of his career. it's nice to see that he seems to be making an active attempt to express his feelings & try shit out with this new project

[gnarlybog]

awesome, he got jesse kanda, arca's go-to guy for visuals. 

[Braintree]

I just hear Jack Skellington when he sings.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

[Cryptowen]

3 minutes ago, Braintree said:

I just hear Jack Skellington when he sings.

I do find it interesting how even though these are (more or less) rock songs, they remind me much more of NMBC than they do Oingo Boingo (and I listened to a lotta Oingo Boingo back in the day)

[Rubin Farr]

 

[Cryptowen]

I feel like he might be taking some cues from OPN, at least in terms of the music video aesthetics

[Braintree]

Hadn't noticed that these are on Epitaph. Interesting label choice.

I like that they're willing to put that statement at the end. Not a lot of big names are willing to say "sex work is work."

[Rubin Farr]

 

 

[Cryptowen]

 

tbh this late-career return to rock music is coming off much more sincere than i would have initially expected. i'm into it