{"id":805750,"date":"2020-03-27T09:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=974075"},"modified":"2020-03-27T09:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T15:03:26","slug":"butch-walker-previews-new-rock-opera-with-wry-ballad-pretty-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/butch-walker-previews-new-rock-opera-with-wry-ballad-pretty-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Butch Walker Previews New Rock Opera With Wry Ballad \u2018Pretty Crazy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Butch-Walker-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI love you!\u201d a girl giggles at the beginning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/butch-walker\/\" id=\"auto-tag_butch-walker\" data-tag=\"butch-walker\">Butch Walker<\/a>\u2019s new song \u201cPretty Crazy,\u201d to which Walker deadpans, \u201cOh, cool.\u201d It\u2019s a lightning-flash exchange that nonetheless sums up the superficiality of today\u2019s culture \u2014 are anyone\u2019s words ever really sincere?<\/p>\n<p>Walker tackles all sorts of words and viewpoints in the modern-day United States on his upcoming new album <em>American Love Story<\/em>, a rock opera told from the perspectives of characters like a bigot, a liberal, a gay man, and the vapid woman (Walker referred to her as \u201cParis\u201d in an Instagram post) of \u201cPretty Crazy.\u201d <em>American Love Story<\/em> is Walker\u2019s first studio album since 2016\u2019s <em>Stay Gold<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody needs a rock opera in 2020, and they aren\u2019t exactly a popular concept. Which is exactly why I did it,\u201d Walker said in a statement. \u201cThink of it as a cast of characters, all telling a sometimes harsh, sometimes funny but beautiful and bittersweet tale all wrapped up in a soundtrack that sounds like the FM radio and MTV of my younger years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty Crazy\u201d is just that: a mid-tempo ballad that features all of Walker\u2019s hallmarks. The lyrics are sharp and rich in wordplay (\u201cforget about an unforgettable night,\u201d he sings), the \u201c<em>ooh-ooh<\/em>\u201d refrains are abundant, and the guitar solo is Eighties glam. It\u2019s peak Butch.<\/p>\n<p>A Grammy-nominated producer, Walker recently produced Green Day\u2019s new album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/green-day-father-of-all-motherfuckers-review-948579\/\"><em>Father of All Motherfuckers<\/em><\/a>. <em>American Love Story<\/em> will be released May 8th.<\/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\/butch-walker-new-song-pretty-crazy-974075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love you!\u201d a girl giggles at the beginning of Butch Walker\u2019s new song \u201cPretty Crazy,\u201d to which Walker deadpans, \u201cOh, cool.\u201d It\u2019s a lightning-flash exchange that nonetheless sums up the superficiality of today\u2019s culture \u2014 are anyone\u2019s words ever really sincere? Walker tackles all sorts of words and viewpoints in the modern-day United States [&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-805750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 03:11:06","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\/805750","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=805750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}