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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Can you guess the location of each album cover?
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust cover was shot as monochrome and vividly coloured afterwards but it's of a real location can you guess the place and for the locations for seven other iconic album covers Fans were stunned when American pop-rock band Haim featured a photo of themselves on Portland Street near Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens on the front of their new single, Take Me Back. They are far from the only band to put a UK street firmly on the uber-cool place map by using it on a record cover. The Beatles did it, as did Oasis, The Clash, The Jam, The Streets and Madness - to name but a few - as this great gallery of album covers shows. Now it's time to put your musical and geographical knowledge to the test. Take a look at the album covers and the photographs and see if you can name that street! 1. Manchester's Oasis went down south to film the cover of this iconic album, which celebrates its 20th anniversary. The setting was a popular location for record shops in the 1990s. 2. The Jam's 1977 masterpiece This Is the Modern World shows Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, lurking under an overpass. That same year The Clash refers to the same road in their song about a certain city burning. 3. And pigs might fly … according to Pink Floyd's 1977 Animals album cover. But where is the landmark, that has recently had a very impressive facelift? 4. David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust cover was shot as monochrome and vividly coloured afterwards. The K West sign that hung above a furrier in 1982 has now been removed, but it remains an iconic street for Bowie fans 5. In 1977, The Clash released their debut studio album with a cove true to the spirit of punk rock—in a bohemian area popular with rebels young and old and home to iconic music venues like The Roundhouse. 6. The Beatles made this zebra crossing famous worldwide when it was used on the cover of their1969 studio album. Fans still flock here to recreate the image, outside the recording home of the Merseyside beat. But where is it? Lamar's 2015 Pimp A Butterfly album cover was shot in atmospheric monochrome and features a large group of black men and children, plus a baby cradled by Lamar himself on this US lawn, belonging to possibly the world 's most famous house. 8. English rapper Mike Skinner from The Streets chose this building in East Anglia for his 2011 Computer and Blues album after playing a student gig here. Answers: What's The Story Morning Glory, Berwick Street. Soho, London. The Westway, West London Battersea Power Station 23 Heddon Street, Soho, London, Alleyway directly opposite the band's 'Rehearsal Rehearsals' HQ in Camden Market, North London Abbey Road, near Abbey Road Studios, North West London The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Norfolk Terrace halls of residence at the University of East Anglia.
Sydney Morning Herald
4 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Haim are everywhere right now. Even they don't know how they've managed it
Suddenly, Haim are everywhere. Open your browser and you'll be hit by one of their meme-inspired singles covers, lo-fi recreations of famous celebrity breakup paparazzi pics. Scroll TikTok and you'll see them doing a viral dance for lead single Relationships or new track Take Me Back. Head to YouTube and you'll see their cinematic video clip, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and featuring internet boyfriend Logan Lerman, or viral clips of them playing live onstage while pop icon Addison Rae cavorts louchely in front of them. For a band that's been around forever (specifically, 12 years), whose last album, 2020's Women in Music Pt III, was their biggest yet, a Grammy-nominated album of the year featuring a cameo from Taylor Swift, to drum up such anticipation for their fourth album, the upcoming I Quit, is an impressive feat. Whatever viral marketing strategy they dreamed up in their record label's boardroom has clearly worked. 'There's no strategy, it's just us,' says youngest Haim sibling Alana, who you might've also seen strolling the red carpet at Cannes last month for the premiere of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, in which she stars with another internet boyfriend, Josh O'Connor. 'We grew up watching SNL and had the amazing experience of watching Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, all these women that were so unapologetically funny. All we ever wanted to do growing up is make people laugh, so that's how we take on all these things.' It's not quite the answer I was expecting. In fact, I had about 15 questions prepared around the realities of marketing in pop, about how artists don't talk about it much even though it's such a significant part of the job, especially in the streaming era where culture moves so fast and attention spans are frayed. I figured they'd learned something from Charli XCX's 'Brat Summer', about the power of a viral TikTok dance, of flooding web-space with crowd-pleasing shenanigans and canny collaborations. I'd set aside at least half of our 30-minute interview slot for an enlightening backroom discussion about the modern business of doing pop. But no, Haim – Este (39, bass and vocals) in brown, Alana (33, keys and vocals) in tan, Danielle (36, lead vocals and guitar) in black, huddled across my screen from a 'random room in a hotel in London' where they just played a show for BBC Radio One – are telling me this whole thing is just a lucky accident? 'Just doing our thang,' laughs Alana. 'I've been asking them to dance with me since they were born,' says Este. 'There are so many family videos of Este teaching us choreography and being like, 'No, your hands go here!' Honestly, we've been Este's lab rats for dance class since I was like two years old,' says Alana, and Este nods. 'No strategy,' Danielle repeats. 'But if anyone else has the answer for that, I'd watch that video as well.' Even so, the buzz for I Quit is real. Is it difficult for an established band, a dozen years into their career, to make people excited for album number four? Is there more effort involved in convincing people to listen? 'We're still in the pinch-me phase of the fact we get to tour the world together and put out albums,' says Alana. 'And especially for this album, we were all single making this album. We were going out, we were going to bars, we were dancing, we were getting drunk together again like we were 16 years old. All we were put on this earth to do is bring happiness and play music, and the fact we get to do that together is the greatest gift of all time. We're just riding the wave.' It helps when your fourth album is this good. I Quit is Haim at the peak of their creative powers. Coming out of Danielle's split from a decade-long relationship with Ariel Rechtshaid, the hit songwriter and producer who helmed the first three Haim albums, it feels like a seminal breakup album. If the band's Stonesy-rock DNA and California harmonies underpin each song, there are also intriguing experiments, no doubt prompted by the fact noted knob-twiddler Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has taken over lead producer duties. 'Watching Danielle and him producing was like watching a ballet,' says Alana. 'They speak the same language. And I've said it from the beginning, this is the closest we've ever gotten to sounding like how we've always wanted to sound. On Women in Music Part III, we kind of half-opened the door, and then with this album it's definitely the most Haim-sounding album we've ever made.' If you Ctrl-F'd my album notes, the word that comes up most is 'freedom'. In its free-for-all playfulness and Danielle's songs attacking all stages of post-breakup relief and grief, the album emits freedom sonically, thematically and, to start, even literally. On the raucous opener Gone, the band samples George Michael's Freedom! '90. You can picture Danielle with arms out, head to the sky, yelling 'freedom!' , as a gospel choir praises her overdue release from a bad relationship. It's a ridiculous way to open a breakup record: hilarious, over-the-top, celebratory and self-skewering all at once. 'That was the last song we wrote for the album,' says Danielle. 'We didn't mean for there to be a through-line or a story to the album, but as it was shaping up we were like, 'This is feeling like a really powerful story' and it felt like we needed an intro.' Inspired by Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, which she'd been listening to on repeat, Danielle realised Haim had never used a sample. 'So we were like, let's try it. We're such huge George Michael fans, we thought why don't we try to do this sample justice and try to invite the listener in on this little journey.' The process of securing a George Michael sample involves sending his estate a heartfelt email and then letting the lawyers do their job. 'Honestly, I was like, I don't wanna know, just tell me it's cleared,' laughs Alana. 'I think getting the approval of that estate was a really big deal for us, because we obviously are such big fans,' says Danielle. 'It's the first sample we've ever used, and it was very nice.' Weirdly enough, the song that launched Haim's I Quit era – lead single Relationships – was written on a plane from Melbourne to Sydney back in 2017, during the band's promo tour for their second album Something To Tell You, a remarkable result for such a short flight. 'It's amazing, but a little frustrating, that I get these weird waves of inspiration right as planes are taking off,' says Danielle. 'I just plucked out a few chords, and the chorus – 'I think I'm in love, but I can't stand f—ing relationships' – came down as something fully formed into my head, which, as songwriters, is really rare.' She showed it to her sisters as soon as they landed, who agreed there was something to it but suggested Danielle tuck it away till they got home as they were literally walking into album promo. When they got home they showed it to collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr, fixed some lyrics, and then held on to it for years. 'I think some people didn't get it at the time, but we always knew it was special,' says Danielle. 'It wasn't until, like, a year and a half ago that we finally cracked it open. The response to it has been amazing. We were all like, 'See, we knew it!'.' Holding on to a track for years isn't unknown to Haim: the same thing happened with their smash The Wire, which was written in 2008 but released in 2013. It does bring up an uncomfortable elephant in the room, though. Danielle was barely into her relationship with Rechtshaid in 2017. Was she already feeling misgivings that far back? The band fumble silently; I catch Danielle and Este stifle a smirk. 'It's weird, sometimes you're writing something and it doesn't really feel like it's pertaining to your life at the time and then some time will roll by and you'll be like, wait, I was really going through it then,' says Danielle. 'Or maybe I was forecasting something, I don't know. The songwriting gods are very mystical. But we love them, please don't ever leave us.' The pop canon is filled with beloved breakup albums: Joni's Blue, Alanis' Jagged Little Pill, Beyonce's Lemonade, Ariana's Thank U, Next. Do Haim think of I Quit as part of the same tradition? Danielle scrunches her lip. 'We think of it more as a 'being single' album,' she says. 'Because that's where we were, we were all single and exploring the feelings of being that.' To get back to the meme-making of it all, the idea to recreate famous celebrity breakup moments for their ongoing singles cover art – the image of Nicole Kidman, arms raised in ecstasy, leaving the courthouse after signing her divorce papers from Tom Cruise (debunked, but still); the image of Scarlett Johansson warmly embracing Jared Leto while he stares off bored into his phone – are these not thematic nods to the fallibility of high-profile relationships? Loading 'All that stuff just goes back to getting a computer,' says Alana. 'That's what we would do as siblings when we first got the internet, you would see all these photos for the first time and it just made us laugh. There's such a plethora of funny photos on the internet, and we just wanted to recreate them. It's fun.' I tell them I appreciated the obsessive level of detail on the Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan picture for new single, Take Me Back. 'We just did that, like, three days ago when we were in Manchester,' Danielle laughs. Are there any more in the bag? 'Who knows, we have no idea. This is all very rough and tumble,' says Alana. 'Again: no strategy,' adds Este.
The Age
4 days ago
- Business
- The Age
Haim are everywhere right now. Even they don't know how they've managed it
Suddenly, Haim are everywhere. Open your browser and you'll be hit by one of their meme-inspired singles covers, lo-fi recreations of famous celebrity breakup paparazzi pics. Scroll TikTok and you'll see them doing a viral dance for lead single Relationships or new track Take Me Back. Head to YouTube and you'll see their cinematic video clip, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and featuring internet boyfriend Logan Lerman, or viral clips of them playing live onstage while pop icon Addison Rae cavorts louchely in front of them. For a band that's been around forever (specifically, 12 years), whose last album, 2020's Women in Music Pt III, was their biggest yet, a Grammy-nominated album of the year featuring a cameo from Taylor Swift, to drum up such anticipation for their fourth album, the upcoming I Quit, is an impressive feat. Whatever viral marketing strategy they dreamed up in their record label's boardroom has clearly worked. 'There's no strategy, it's just us,' says youngest Haim sibling Alana, who you might've also seen strolling the red carpet at Cannes last month for the premiere of Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, in which she stars with another internet boyfriend, Josh O'Connor. 'We grew up watching SNL and had the amazing experience of watching Molly Shannon, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer and Maya Rudolph, all these women that were so unapologetically funny. All we ever wanted to do growing up is make people laugh, so that's how we take on all these things.' It's not quite the answer I was expecting. In fact, I had about 15 questions prepared around the realities of marketing in pop, about how artists don't talk about it much even though it's such a significant part of the job, especially in the streaming era where culture moves so fast and attention spans are frayed. I figured they'd learned something from Charli XCX's 'Brat Summer', about the power of a viral TikTok dance, of flooding web-space with crowd-pleasing shenanigans and canny collaborations. I'd set aside at least half of our 30-minute interview slot for an enlightening backroom discussion about the modern business of doing pop. But no, Haim – Este (39, bass and vocals) in brown, Alana (33, keys and vocals) in tan, Danielle (36, lead vocals and guitar) in black, huddled across my screen from a 'random room in a hotel in London' where they just played a show for BBC Radio One – are telling me this whole thing is just a lucky accident? 'Just doing our thang,' laughs Alana. 'I've been asking them to dance with me since they were born,' says Este. 'There are so many family videos of Este teaching us choreography and being like, 'No, your hands go here!' Honestly, we've been Este's lab rats for dance class since I was like two years old,' says Alana, and Este nods. 'No strategy,' Danielle repeats. 'But if anyone else has the answer for that, I'd watch that video as well.' Even so, the buzz for I Quit is real. Is it difficult for an established band, a dozen years into their career, to make people excited for album number four? Is there more effort involved in convincing people to listen? 'We're still in the pinch-me phase of the fact we get to tour the world together and put out albums,' says Alana. 'And especially for this album, we were all single making this album. We were going out, we were going to bars, we were dancing, we were getting drunk together again like we were 16 years old. All we were put on this earth to do is bring happiness and play music, and the fact we get to do that together is the greatest gift of all time. We're just riding the wave.' It helps when your fourth album is this good. I Quit is Haim at the peak of their creative powers. Coming out of Danielle's split from a decade-long relationship with Ariel Rechtshaid, the hit songwriter and producer who helmed the first three Haim albums, it feels like a seminal breakup album. If the band's Stonesy-rock DNA and California harmonies underpin each song, there are also intriguing experiments, no doubt prompted by the fact noted knob-twiddler Rostam Batmanglij (formerly of Vampire Weekend) has taken over lead producer duties. 'Watching Danielle and him producing was like watching a ballet,' says Alana. 'They speak the same language. And I've said it from the beginning, this is the closest we've ever gotten to sounding like how we've always wanted to sound. On Women in Music Part III, we kind of half-opened the door, and then with this album it's definitely the most Haim-sounding album we've ever made.' If you Ctrl-F'd my album notes, the word that comes up most is 'freedom'. In its free-for-all playfulness and Danielle's songs attacking all stages of post-breakup relief and grief, the album emits freedom sonically, thematically and, to start, even literally. On the raucous opener Gone, the band samples George Michael's Freedom! '90. You can picture Danielle with arms out, head to the sky, yelling 'freedom!' , as a gospel choir praises her overdue release from a bad relationship. It's a ridiculous way to open a breakup record: hilarious, over-the-top, celebratory and self-skewering all at once. 'That was the last song we wrote for the album,' says Danielle. 'We didn't mean for there to be a through-line or a story to the album, but as it was shaping up we were like, 'This is feeling like a really powerful story' and it felt like we needed an intro.' Inspired by Beyonce's Cowboy Carter, which she'd been listening to on repeat, Danielle realised Haim had never used a sample. 'So we were like, let's try it. We're such huge George Michael fans, we thought why don't we try to do this sample justice and try to invite the listener in on this little journey.' The process of securing a George Michael sample involves sending his estate a heartfelt email and then letting the lawyers do their job. 'Honestly, I was like, I don't wanna know, just tell me it's cleared,' laughs Alana. 'I think getting the approval of that estate was a really big deal for us, because we obviously are such big fans,' says Danielle. 'It's the first sample we've ever used, and it was very nice.' Weirdly enough, the song that launched Haim's I Quit era – lead single Relationships – was written on a plane from Melbourne to Sydney back in 2017, during the band's promo tour for their second album Something To Tell You, a remarkable result for such a short flight. 'It's amazing, but a little frustrating, that I get these weird waves of inspiration right as planes are taking off,' says Danielle. 'I just plucked out a few chords, and the chorus – 'I think I'm in love, but I can't stand f—ing relationships' – came down as something fully formed into my head, which, as songwriters, is really rare.' She showed it to her sisters as soon as they landed, who agreed there was something to it but suggested Danielle tuck it away till they got home as they were literally walking into album promo. When they got home they showed it to collaborator Tobias Jesso Jr, fixed some lyrics, and then held on to it for years. 'I think some people didn't get it at the time, but we always knew it was special,' says Danielle. 'It wasn't until, like, a year and a half ago that we finally cracked it open. The response to it has been amazing. We were all like, 'See, we knew it!'.' Holding on to a track for years isn't unknown to Haim: the same thing happened with their smash The Wire, which was written in 2008 but released in 2013. It does bring up an uncomfortable elephant in the room, though. Danielle was barely into her relationship with Rechtshaid in 2017. Was she already feeling misgivings that far back? The band fumble silently; I catch Danielle and Este stifle a smirk. 'It's weird, sometimes you're writing something and it doesn't really feel like it's pertaining to your life at the time and then some time will roll by and you'll be like, wait, I was really going through it then,' says Danielle. 'Or maybe I was forecasting something, I don't know. The songwriting gods are very mystical. But we love them, please don't ever leave us.' The pop canon is filled with beloved breakup albums: Joni's Blue, Alanis' Jagged Little Pill, Beyonce's Lemonade, Ariana's Thank U, Next. Do Haim think of I Quit as part of the same tradition? Danielle scrunches her lip. 'We think of it more as a 'being single' album,' she says. 'Because that's where we were, we were all single and exploring the feelings of being that.' To get back to the meme-making of it all, the idea to recreate famous celebrity breakup moments for their ongoing singles cover art – the image of Nicole Kidman, arms raised in ecstasy, leaving the courthouse after signing her divorce papers from Tom Cruise (debunked, but still); the image of Scarlett Johansson warmly embracing Jared Leto while he stares off bored into his phone – are these not thematic nods to the fallibility of high-profile relationships? Loading 'All that stuff just goes back to getting a computer,' says Alana. 'That's what we would do as siblings when we first got the internet, you would see all these photos for the first time and it just made us laugh. There's such a plethora of funny photos on the internet, and we just wanted to recreate them. It's fun.' I tell them I appreciated the obsessive level of detail on the Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan picture for new single, Take Me Back. 'We just did that, like, three days ago when we were in Manchester,' Danielle laughs. Are there any more in the bag? 'Who knows, we have no idea. This is all very rough and tumble,' says Alana. 'Again: no strategy,' adds Este.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Haim releases 'Take Me Back' from upcoming album 'I Quit'
May 30 (UPI) -- Haim released "Take Me Back," a "nostalgic" new song from the band's forthcoming album, I Quit. Danielle Haim wrote in a post on the band's official Instagram account that she and her sisters, Alana and Este, were in a nostalgic mood when they started writing "Take Me Back." "This was a very nostalgic time for the 3 of us because we all found ourselves single for the first time since we were all in high school," Haim wrote. "We we were going out all the time, just the three of us (no boyfriends lol)." Danielle Haim said the sisters, along with producer Rostam Batmanglij and co-writer Tobias Jesso Jr., exchanged stories about their teenage years that ended up forming the verses of the song. "Long story short -- high school is insane. These stories are real. Names have been changed," the post said. "Take Me Back" is available now on YouTube and music streaming platforms. I Quit, Haim's fourth studio album, is scheduled for release June 20.
UPI
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Haim releases 'Take Me Back' from upcoming album 'I Quit'
1 of 5 | Este Haim, Alana Haim and Danielle Haim of the band Haim released "Take Me Back," a single from their upcoming album, "I Quit." File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI | License Photo May 30 (UPI) -- Haim released "Take Me Back," a "nostalgic" new song from the band's forthcoming album, I Quit. Danielle Haim wrote in a post on the band's official Instagram account that she and her sisters, Alana and Este, were in a nostalgic mood when they started writing "Take Me Back." "This was a very nostalgic time for the 3 of us because we all found ourselves single for the first time since we were all in high school," Haim wrote. "We we were going out all the time, just the three of us (no boyfriends lol)." Danielle Haim said the sisters, along with producer Rostam Batmanglij and co-writer Tobias Jesso Jr., exchanged stories about their teenage years that ended up forming the verses of the song. "Long story short -- high school is insane. These stories are real. Names have been changed," the post said. "Take Me Back" is available now on YouTube and music streaming platforms. I Quit, Haim's fourth studio album, is scheduled for release June 20.
