Aussie2Aussie: 5SOS on Tame Impala (with Luke Hemmings & Calum Hood)

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The band 5 Seconds Of Summer have just released their fourth studio album, Calm. Lead vocalist Luke Hemmings and bassist Calum Hood join us to talk about some of Australia’s biggest hits. In the first half of our conversation we discuss the catchy rhythms and vocals in Tame Impala’s song “Borderline,” a song driven more by vibe than conventional structures. Then on side B, 5SOS break down their new single single “Wildflower” and its countless 80s references. One sound in particular, the “stab” or “orchestral hit” in "Wildflower's" chorus, truly evokes the 80s. The song’s producer, Rami Yacoub, had used the sound before on Britney Spears “Lucky,” as had 100s of other artists who first got their hands on this sample from an Australian inventor who forever changed the sound of music. Songs Discussed 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love 5 Seconds Of Summer - Lie To Me (ft. Julia Michaels) AC/DC - Highway To Hell Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning Tame Impala - Same Ol Mistakes Tame Impala - Borderline Post Malone - Circles Slipknot - Before I Forget Massive Attack - Teardrop Tom Petty - Wildflowers 5 Seconds Of Summer - Wildflower Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood Cindy Lauper - Time After Time Oasis - Wonderwall INXS - Need You Tonight Talk Talk - It’s My Life Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World Enya - Orinoco Flow Stravinsky - Firebird Suite Afrika Bambaataa- Planet Rock Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind Britney Spears - Lucky 5 Seconds Of Summer - Red Desert More Estelle Caswell’s Earworm Video on Peter Vogel’s Fairlight CMI and her playlist of Orchestral Hits Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:17.6	And today we're joined by two special guests, if you don't mind introducing yourselves.
0:21.5	Yep, this is Kellham and Luke's here also and we're from the band called Fossickens
0:26.5	Summer. Hey, how you doing? It's Luke here. Yeah.
0:30.4	Five seconds of summer, abbreviated to five sauce, five SOS is so much fun. You are the first group to have your first two albums go number one.
0:41.4	You have countless hit singles. Some of my favorites are Youngblood.
0:56.5	Who do you love?
1:07.5	Why to me featuring Julia Michaels.
1:10.0	I know that you don't believe I ask you if you love me.
1:15.6	I hope you like, like, like, like, like me.
1:20.4	You have done worldwide tours with one direction. You are a stadium touring act in your own right.
1:27.8	You have a really loyal and vocal fan base. Today we're going to talk about some of your new music.
1:33.6	But first, we're going to do something a little bit unusual.
1:36.6	We are going to do a segment that we have never done before and will probably never do again call Aussie to Aussie.
1:49.6	Some of our great Australian friends from the band five second of summer have brought another band to us that we wanted to listen to together and break down before we listen to some of five SOS's music.
2:00.4	So you have brought us Tamum Paula, a musical project of the Australian songwriter and producer Kevin Parker, who really defies genre.
2:10.0	He's often labeled Psych Pop, but he's worked with people spanning Mark Ronson, Travis Scott and Kanye West.
2:17.0	His music has been covered by Rihanna.
2:19.2	So I think it's really only a lie.
2:29.6	Yeah, we're huge fans of Tamum Paula. Obviously being on the show, being Australians, we needed to insert some great here atism, as you might say.
2:40.6	So he was the first person to come to mind in terms of modern Australian acts.
2:46.0	He has a new album, The Slow Rush, which is a meditation on time.
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