{"id":974162,"date":"2019-12-23T03:15:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=930532"},"modified":"2019-12-23T03:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:15:31","slug":"watch-the-nationals-matt-berninger-rap-on-kids-show-helpsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-the-nationals-matt-berninger-rap-on-kids-show-helpsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The National\u2019s Matt Berninger Rap on Kids Show \u2018Helpsters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-23-at-10.09.08-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-national\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-national\" data-tag=\"the-national\">The National<\/a>\u2019s Matt Berninger made a special appearance on Apple TV+ series <em>Helpsters<\/em> to rap about long words alongside a group of puppets. The track, titled \u201cThe Long Words Song,\u201d is all about Berninger\u2019s love for lengthy words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like long words and I like to recite \u2019em,\u201d Berninger raps. \u201cI like all the pages and pages it takes to write \u2019em.\u201d He adds,&nbsp;\u201cI even got a word for the long words in this song: they\u2019re sesquipedalian, and that means long.\u201d The song is, ironically, short and sweet, with Berninger thanking the puppets before he goes.<\/p>\n<p>Berninger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/matt-berninger-solo-album-serpentine-prison-900803\/\">recently announced<\/a> his debut solo album, <em>Serpentine Prison<\/em>, which was produced and arranged by&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_booker-t-jones\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/booker-t-jones\/\" data-tag=\"booker-t-jones\">Booker T. Jones<\/a>. The album has yet to get an official release date, although the musician teased its release on Instagram, noting, \u201cMore about it soon but basically I\u2019m the luckiest man in the universe with lots of brilliant friends who can play instermints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National frontman also recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-matt-berninger-phoebe-bridgers-duet-898986\/\">\u201cWalking on a String,\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;a solo single featuring&nbsp;<a id=\"auto-tag_phoebe-bridgers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phoebe-bridgers\/\" data-tag=\"phoebe-bridgers\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a>, which comes from the Netflix film <em>Between Two Ferns: The Movie<\/em>. Berninger and Bridgers recorded the track at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and performed it during a scene in the Zach Galifianakis-starring movie.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-national-matt-berninger-helpsters-930532\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National\u2019s Matt Berninger made a special appearance on Apple TV+ series Helpsters to rap about long words alongside a group of puppets. The track, titled \u201cThe Long Words Song,\u201d is all about Berninger\u2019s love for lengthy words. \u201cI like long words and I like to recite \u2019em,\u201d Berninger raps. \u201cI like all the pages [&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-974162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 03:53:53","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\/974162","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=974162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}