{"id":973518,"date":"2019-11-14T10:57:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=912395"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:57:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:57:24","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-neon-indians-toyota-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-neon-indians-toyota-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need To Know: Neon Indian\u2019s \u2018Toyota Man\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the midst of President Trump\u2019s impeachment hearings<\/a>, Neon Indian<\/a> is out with a new protest song that sounds like anything but a political dirge. Instead, it\u2019s a super-bright, festive pi\u00f1ata \u2014 just packed with goodies that no one bargained for.<\/p>\n

Alan Palomo dropped \u201cToyota Man\u201d with a dizzying self-directed video that tells an alternate history of the Monterrey, Mexico native\u2019s life story (his parents make an appearance). Palomo kicks off the video standing at the U.S.-Mexico border flipping through Spanish cue cards \u2014 very Dylanesque \u2014 then finds himself hired to wash a bunch of Toyotas. The musician takes a rag to a red vehicle in what could be an ode to Kenneth Anger\u2019s \u201cKustom Kar Kommandos,\u201d<\/a> as a Trump-shaped pi\u00f1ata comes to life at a backyard party and makes a run for it. There\u2019s a puppet show about migrant labor, a cowboy giving birth to cars and all manner of wackiness before the Trump-ata gets hits by a car, spilling green cards across the road.<\/p>\n

Palomo\u2019s first song in Spanish, \u201cToyota Man\u201d pulls from a variety of recognizable tunes for its source material: Spanish folk song \u201cLa Cucaracha,\u201d \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner,\u201d Selena\u2019s \u201cBidi Bidi Bom Bom<\/a>\u201d and Miley Cyrus\u2019 \u201cParty in the U.S.A.\u201d Soaked in a heavy dose of Neon Indian\u2019s characteristic chillwave, \u201cToyota Man\u201d finds Palomo singing about migrant laborers and DACA recipients: \u201cWe came here to study\/We want to work\/We\u2019re all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n

The track is Palomo\u2019s first new music since 2015\u2019s VEGA INTL. Night School<\/em> and hints at a new direction for the indie-rock mainstay. He\u2019s long spoken of singing in his native language, and if this track is any indication, more personal, political works could be on the way.<\/p>\n

Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on Spotify<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the midst of President Trump\u2019s impeachment hearings, Neon Indian is out with a new protest song that sounds like anything but a political dirge. Instead, it\u2019s a super-bright, festive pi\u00f1ata \u2014 just packed with goodies that no one bargained for. Alan Palomo dropped \u201cToyota Man\u201d with a dizzying self-directed video that tells an alternate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 16:30:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}