{"id":974087,"date":"2019-12-17T04:09:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=928106"},"modified":"2019-12-17T04:09:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:09:53","slug":"watch-stormzy-prep-for-glastonbury-in-do-better-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-stormzy-prep-for-glastonbury-in-do-better-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Stormzy Prep For Glastonbury in \u2018Do Better\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-17-at-11.06.10-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stormzy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stormzy\" data-tag=\"stormzy\">Stormzy<\/a> has dropped a music video for his recent track \u201cDo Better,\u201d which comes off the British rapper\u2019s new album <em>Heavy Is the Head<\/em>. The video is themed around Stormzy\u2019s historic performance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/glastonbury\/\" id=\"auto-tag_glastonbury\" data-tag=\"glastonbury\">Glastonbury<\/a> earlier this year, showcasing him rehearsing for the festival and getting amped up before his set.<\/p>\n<p>The clip ends with the rapper playing for a cheering crowd at the festival, when he became the first British rapper to headline Glastonbury. The video closes with a fan-inspired message: \u201cThank you to everyone on this incredible journey with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Heavy Is the Head<\/em>, Stormzy\u2019s second album, dropped last week. \u201cI wanted it to be a true musical reflection of everything I\u2019m feeling, everything I stand for and all the stories I have to tell right now,\u201d Stormzy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stormzy-interview-uk-election-grime-925641\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> of the album. \u201cAnd to me that\u2019s always going to mean a vast palette because I like to think I\u2019ve got a vast personality. I\u2019m not just a hard-hitting rapper. I like beautiful songs and beautiful melody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI found all the pockets, all the flows, I was rapping at a level I haven\u2019t rapped at. Even down to my melodies and my singing \u2014 it\u2019s not just about singing for the sake of melody. It\u2019s about, how can I use my voice? I\u2019ve got a deep voice, I love sweet R&amp;B tones, so how do I use my voice to the best of its ability? It\u2019s not about trying to hit some crazy high note; it\u2019s about staying within this certain key, this certain pocket and keeping it pure and focused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/stormzy-glastonbury-do-better-video-928106\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stormzy has dropped a music video for his recent track \u201cDo Better,\u201d which comes off the British rapper\u2019s new album Heavy Is the Head. The video is themed around Stormzy\u2019s historic performance at Glastonbury earlier this year, showcasing him rehearsing for the festival and getting amped up before his set. The clip ends with the [&hellip;]<\/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-974087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 21:42:49","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\/974087","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=974087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}