{"id":481353,"date":"2019-01-25T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=784563"},"modified":"2019-01-25T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T18:00:02","slug":"x-ambassadors-blow-up-negative-vibes-on-new-song-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/x-ambassadors-blow-up-negative-vibes-on-new-song-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"X Ambassadors Blow Up Negative Vibes on New Song \u2018Boom\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/x-ambassadors.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">X Ambassadors count down to blowing up an unhealthy relationship on their new song \u201cBoom.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMy feet go \u2018boom, boom, boom\u2019\/ High speed go \u2018zoom zoom zoom,&#8217;\u201d frontman Sam Harris sings over a lightly funky bass riff and ragged guitar stabs. \u201cWalking away from you \u2014 that\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do.\u201d Ricky Reed (Twenty One Pilots, Leon Bridges) produced the track, which will be featured in upcoming NBA prime-time games on ABC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement, Harris described the song\u2019s lyrical theme of nixing toxic relationships. \u201cI\u2019ve had to break off a few of them recently myself, and I was writing all these sad songs because of it,\u201d he said. \u201cI needed to write one to give me confidence again. To turn my pain into my power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBoom,\u201d which follows their 2018 singles \u201cJoyful\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Stay,\u201d will appear on X Ambassadors\u2019 upcoming third LP, due out later in 2019. The band has yet to detail the album, the trio\u2019s first since their 2015 major-label debut, 2015\u2019s <em>VHS<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/x-ambassadors-new-song-boom-784563\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Ambassadors count down to blowing up an unhealthy relationship on their new song \u201cBoom.\u201d\u00a0\u201cMy feet go \u2018boom, boom, boom\u2019\/ High speed go \u2018zoom zoom zoom,&#8217;\u201d frontman Sam Harris sings over a lightly funky bass riff and ragged guitar stabs. \u201cWalking away from you \u2014 that\u2019s what I\u2019m gonna do.\u201d Ricky Reed (Twenty One Pilots, [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481353","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 03:27:18","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}