{"id":792050,"date":"2019-01-15T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=778243"},"modified":"2019-01-15T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:06:27","slug":"starcrawlers-hollywood-ending-is-a-song-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/starcrawlers-hollywood-ending-is-a-song-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Starcrawler\u2019s \u2018Hollywood Ending\u2019 Is a Song You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/starcrawler-hollywood-ending.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/starcrawler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_starcrawler\" data-tag=\"starcrawler\">Starcrawler<\/a> sound like they\u2019re caught between two worlds on \u201cHollywood Ending,\u201d a glittery L.A. interzone between Seventies riff-rockers like Cheap Trick and the rougher, ponderous melodies of Dinosaur Jr. It\u2019s an unusual pairing \u2014 not nearly as natural as the way grunge artists blended Aerosmith with Black Flag \u2014 but the band figured out a clever way of rolling it out, starting with jittery, Tom Petty-ish verses before going off on a loose and jammy outro that really has nothing to do with the rest of the song. By the time they get to that epic, final third, which is just waves of sighing guitars and frontwoman Arrow de Wilde whispering (mostly inaudibly, maybe for some subliminal effect), you\u2019re hooked. It\u2019s so catchy, it\u2019s clear why they released it as a single instead of saving it for a follow-up to last year\u2019s self-titled debut.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8mrnIRpeizY?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Beyond the music, part of the song\u2019s appeal is de Wilde herself. She sounds confident, even though she sings \u201cYou broke my heart,\u201d as she lists all the way some dummy walked all over her. Her choruses of, \u201cHow was I to know, I was on my own?\u201d sound somewhat sad, but there\u2019s a certain vindication in her voice. But it never sounds like she\u2019s seeking revenge, more that she\u2019s just on her own personal trip \u2014 forgiving (perhaps) but certainly not forgetting. Her whispering at the end \u2014 the <em>real<\/em> end \u2014 could be a memory, a hex, a malediction, but she doesn\u2019t feel it\u2019s notable enough to bring up in the mix. The way she\u2019s put it in press statements is, \u201cIn the song I pray for \u2018The End\u2019 \u2014 the end of being lied to, toyed with, the end of false friendships and relationships \u2026 Let me walk into the light.\u201d Any way you cut it, she\u2019s over it. And she\u2019s made a point of declaring it with a song that\u2019s hard to forget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/starcrawler-hollywood-ending-song-you-need-to-know-778243\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starcrawler sound like they\u2019re caught between two worlds on \u201cHollywood Ending,\u201d a glittery L.A. interzone between Seventies riff-rockers like Cheap Trick and the rougher, ponderous melodies of Dinosaur Jr. It\u2019s an unusual pairing \u2014 not nearly as natural as the way grunge artists blended Aerosmith with Black Flag \u2014 but the band figured out a [&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-792050","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 12:14:33","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\/792050","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=792050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}