![]() ![]() In January 2013, the work won Best Independent Release at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards for 2012. In October 2012, he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in Textures won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards. In 2012, as Chet Faker, he issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures, and signed to Downtown Records in the United States. The track opens with bouncy piano, as G Flip announces she had a crush on a certain someone called Steph Claire Smith, before diving into apologies against a mishmash of crunchy bass and forceful beats.Nicholas James Murphy (born 23 June 1988), known professionally as Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter. And that is artistry.ĭrummer-producer-singer G Flip’s Drink Too Much is about pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: getting dumped for being too much of a party animal. Though the lyrics were penned two decades ago, there's something about Curry's delivery of them that makes them speak to today. ![]() Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes Not need, just feed the war, cannibal animal I walk the corner to the rubble, that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery, now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells. If you can't quite make out the lyrics, in the second verse Curry sings: Maybe that's what's made it resonate in spite of the fact the cover is almost a year old? Recorded in February last year when the Florida rapper was down under for Laneway, Curry's take on the iconic Rage Against the Machine song is so delightfully abrasive that it feels like the song is his own. So much so that it's been the favourite for pretty much the entire lead up to today's Hottest 100. It's almost 25 years since Rage Against the Machine's Bulls on Parade was released - but the politically charged song has had new life breathed into it by Denzel Curry. This song was widely tipped to win, but no - #5 for the US rapper. It's symbolic of a slow, subtle change happening within the Australian music business, which has long lacked gender equality everywhere from its boardrooms to its festival line-ups. "I remember when we made it I was talking about it for months and months." This was a strong year for female solo artistsįive female solo artists made it into the top 10, which is historically dominated by male acts.Īside from Eilish, Mallrat and Tones and I, there was G Flip - Melbourne musician Georgia Flipo - whose song Drink Too Much hit number six, and Thelma Plum, whose Better In Blak was number nine. "I love performing it, I'm not tired of it," she told triple j shortly after the win was announced. Number two was Flume's Rushing Back (feat Vera Blue), three was Charlie by Mallrat, and four was Dance Monkey by Tones and I.Įilish, 18, is also the youngest Hottest 100 winner. While there was a lot of speculation that a cover of the 1996 Rage Against The Machine song Bulls On Parade by US rapper Denzel Curry might win the night, it landed instead at number five. American singer Billie Eilish has won this year's triple j Hottest 100 with her song Bad Guy, becoming the first female solo artist to take the number one spot in the countdown's history. ![]()
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