Tramhaus - Make It Happen

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Tramhaus - "Make It Happen," a 2022 single on Subroutine Records.

Post-punk quintet Tramhaus provide a sneering statement on their hometown of Rotterdam, Netherlands on today's Song of the Day.

The phrase "make it happen" serves as the city's official slogan — "a phrase which coincidentally functions as the absurd and out-of-touch city-slogan of Rotterdam," they state on Facebook. The accompanying music video was filmed in the Wielewaal neighborhood, and the residents who are set to be evicted. “Drawing further on what we believe is a misleading Rotterdam city slogan – 'make it happen' – we came up with the idea to make a video with the Wielewalers,” the band commented to Beats Per Minute. “With the video, we hope to show their struggle to a wider audience.”

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0:00.0	Music
0:31.0	Music
0:33.0	Welcome to the Wild West
0:37.0	It's not allowed to shoot someone in the back
0:41.0	What happens?
0:46.0	It's not allowed to try real fast
0:50.0	What happens?
0:55.0	It's not allowed to step each other in the chest
0:59.0	But it happens
1:05.0	Yeah, it used to be a worse spot
1:08.0	Still it happens
1:14.0	What's it all?
1:16.0	Make it happen
1:28.0	Ah
1:30.0	Ah
1:32.0	Ah
1:50.0	Welcome to the Wild West
1:54.0	It's not allowed to try only to work side
1:58.0	What happens?
2:04.0	It's not allowed to stop someone to deny it
2:07.0	But it happens
2:13.0	It's not allowed to leave someone on the roadside
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