{"id":791743,"date":"2019-01-04T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=775059"},"modified":"2019-01-04T10:58:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:58:43","slug":"mike-posner-pays-tribute-to-avicii-tracy-chapman-in-move-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/mike-posner-pays-tribute-to-avicii-tracy-chapman-in-move-on-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Posner Pays Tribute to Avicii, Tracy Chapman in \u2018Move On\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_9990274av.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mike-posner\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mike-posner\" data-tag=\"mike-posner\">Mike Posner<\/a> catalogs two years of tragic events but resolves to fight through his grief in new single \u201cMove On.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The instrumentation is sunny: firm strums on guitar, a disco bass line, a resolute four-on-the-floor beat. But the \u201cMove On\u201d video contains footage of Posner\u2019s father, who died after battling brain cancer, and the producer Avicii, Posner\u2019s friend and collaborator, who committed suicide in 2018. The singer-songwriter also informs viewers that he broke up with his girlfriend and that he still cries sometimes when he\u2019s by himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Despite these obstacles, Posner remains committed to regaining equilibrium eventually. \u201cI wish Tracy Chapman was my friend\/ She would know exactly what to say,\u201d he sings. \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Beginnings always hide themselves in ends\/ At some point I will be okay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMove On\u201d will appear on Posner\u2019s upcoming third album, <em>A Real Good Kid<\/em>, out January 18th. The singer-songwriter plans to implement an unusual promotional strategy: In March, he will start walking across America, beginning a nine-month journey that will start at the Atlantic Ocean and end at the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mike-posner-move-on-new-album-775059\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Posner catalogs two years of tragic events but resolves to fight through his grief in new single \u201cMove On.\u201d The instrumentation is sunny: firm strums on guitar, a disco bass line, a resolute four-on-the-floor beat. But the \u201cMove On\u201d video contains footage of Posner\u2019s father, who died after battling brain cancer, and the producer [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 00:39:30","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}