Autogramm - WannaBe
In Our Headphones
KEXP
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🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Autogramm - "WannaBe," a 2023 single on Stomp Records
Today's Song of the Day comes from mostly-Northwest new wavers Autogramm: drummer/synths/guitarist/vocalist The Silo now lives in Chicago, while vocalist/guitarist Jiffy Marx and vocalist/bassist CC Voltage hail from Vancouver; vocalist/guitarist Lars Von Seattle resides — well, you can guess! On their third full-length — titled Music That Humans Can Play, released earlier this month — the guys continue to flex their '80s power-pop-influenced sound, calling to mind acts like The Cars, Devo, and Gary Numan.Â
In a press statement, The Silo shares, “'WannaBe' began as a way to say to the most important person in my life that I will stand beside them no matter what their direction, self-opinion, or physical state of being. Upon further reflection, I thought it could apply more broadly to all of our relationships in life: it’s a declaration of love and support to any friend, child, or lover who is going through a change in their self-perception; the idea that gender, occupation, size, skin, are all merely physical manifestations of being and will never matter as much as the person underneath it all.”
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| 0:35.0 | If you want to be, if you want to be glad, if you want to be. If you want to be, if you want to be, |
| 0:40.0 | if you want to be glad, if you want to be glad, |
| 0:44.0 | if you want to be. |
| 0:45.0 | If you want to be. |
| 0:47.0 | If you want to be right, |
| 0:50.0 | if you want to be, if you want to be there, if you want to be there, if you want to be |
| 1:00.1 | there, if you want to be there, if you can be in your head, |
| 1:03.0 | falling sleeping my back, |
| 1:05.0 | be a gun for us to be an alien. |
| 1:09.0 | Be my alien. Be right at the end. |
| 1:15.0 | You can be just what you want to be. |
| 1:19.0 | I ain't never gonna spend in your way. You don't have to be anybody at all. I would love you just the same. |
| 1:30.0 | You can say what you are, You can say what you mean. You can be as outrageous as you |
| 1:37.0 | want to play. You can be anything that you want to be |
| 1:45.0 | if you want to be round |
| 1:50.0 | if you want to be round |
| 1:51.0 | if you want to be crowd if you want to be |
| 1:56.5 | crowd if you want to be |
| 2:00.3 | be if you want to be shot |
| 2:07.0 | want to be if you want to be if you want to be |
| 2:11.0 | if you want to find, I love my world, you can be in your head, |
| 2:18.0 | for a simple by your head, be a person in my head, be a person, be an alienelia L. E. L. E. L. E. L. E. L. E. L. E. E. L. E. E. L. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. H. H. H. W. W. W. W. W. Oh, no, no. No. Oh, whoa. |
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