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Singled Out: The Singularity's Wetter


. Today electro-rocker The Singularity aka Julian Shah-Taylertells us about the song "Wetter" from the recently released "Weta" EP. Here is the story:

I had just moved to LA after a 5 year on again off again continual tour with my old band "Whitey" in the UK, a series of unproductive stints working with Courtney Love, Joaquin Phoenix followed courtesy of an introduction from Alan McGee who was considering managing either or both of the projects so I had gone into a kind of studio hermit phase writing songs for films and being a backroom guy collaborating with friends and writing for other artists.

A friend of mine, David Maurice introduced me to JC Chasez, ex NKOTB with whom he was writing an album. We got into the studio together to write, and the enthusiasm that JC exhibited was so infectious and joyful, that I went back to the studio I was living in and wrote the basic track and lyric in 15 minutes on a nord lead, borrowed from my housemate "Jawnee" of "that noise" and my other band "Piel" in Koreatown, LA with the intention always of presenting the tune to JC for inclusion on his album, although when Tiki (my other housemate and the utterly brilliant singer/songwriter in Piel) heard it, it became clear that I should not even think of sharing it with JC.

My mind always wants to twist the meanings of things, and convey something beyond and behind the lyric, so I wanted it to come across as a terrible creepy Hollywood party predator in one of the Hollywood hills parties that we had been attending regularly where everything is provided, and the girls are either insanely beautiful and a little vapid, or brilliantly strange and paradisiacal.

The norm in those circles is this odd cocaine fueled personality which overruns any sense of humanity. It is sad to say depending on your perceived "status", you can use these hackneyed old pick up lines and awful creepy come ons to persuade certain of the girls to join you for whatever debauched ideas you might have.

The video we made intends a certain creepy feel, and the dancing girls are these ghostly shades captured from the ether by my central lothario/alien spirit.

The final thing is the water theme which was inspired by the ubiquitous pools in la, and my sign, which is water. The symbol of sexuality, and the eternal feminine from which everything is born. I also sweat a LoT on stage!

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the EP right here!

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