{"id":805327,"date":"2020-03-17T07:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=968206"},"modified":"2020-03-17T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T13:04:49","slug":"the-pretenders-fall-head-over-heels-on-new-song-the-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-pretenders-fall-head-over-heels-on-new-song-the-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pretenders Fall Head Over Heels on New Song \u2018The Buzz\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1473789115Credit_JillFurmanovsky_Pretenders_Press03.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-pretenders\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-pretenders\" data-tag=\"the-pretenders\">The Pretenders<\/a> unveiled a jangly new ballad about an obsessive crush, \u201cThe Buzz,\u201d that will appear on their upcoming album, <i>Hate for Sale<\/i>, out May 1st via BMG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Buzz\u201d is a mid-tempo rocker that finds Chrissie Hynde crooning lovelorn lyrics over a swooning rush of guitars. \u201cYou know you can\u2019t forget, you know gotta get, the buzz,\u201d Hynde sings, \u201cCan\u2019t get no relief\/ You\u2019ve reduced me to a liar\/A liar and a thief\/Love, oh love\/I can only prove your real\/By the scratching and the fever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, Hynde said of the song: \u201cI think we all know that love affairs can take on the characteristics of drug addiction. \u2018The Buzz\u2019 is about that. Not mine, of course \u2014 I\u2019m never obsessive, never obsessive, never obsessive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Hate for Sale<\/i> marks the Pretenders\u2019 11th studio album and follows their 2016 LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-the-pretenders-team-with-dan-auerbach-for-brass-knuckled-alone-111133\/\"><i>Alone<\/i><\/a>. Hynde co-wrote all the songs on the record with guitarist James Walbourne, while Stephen Street produced the album. <i>Hate for Sale<\/i> is also the first Pretenders album to feature the band\u2019s long-time touring line-up of Hynde, Walbourne, bassist Nick Wilkinson and founding drummer Martin Chambers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Pretenders are scheduled to embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/journey-pretenders-2020-tour-906111\/\">sprawling North American tour<\/a> with Journey this summer. The run starts May 15th in Ridgefield, Washington, and wraps September 12th in Bethel, New York. The Pretenders will then play the Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California, on September 27th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-pretenders-new-song-the-buzz-album-hate-for-sale-968206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pretenders unveiled a jangly new ballad about an obsessive crush, \u201cThe Buzz,\u201d that will appear on their upcoming album, Hate for Sale, out May 1st via BMG. \u201cThe Buzz\u201d is a mid-tempo rocker that finds Chrissie Hynde crooning lovelorn lyrics over a swooning rush of guitars. \u201cYou know you can\u2019t forget, you know gotta [&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-805327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 03:03:26","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\/805327","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=805327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}