{"id":2444826,"date":"2019-05-31T13:03:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=842753"},"modified":"2019-05-31T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:03:35","slug":"jon-bellion-salutes-miike-snow-with-stripped-down-cover-of-heart-is-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/jon-bellion-salutes-miike-snow-with-stripped-down-cover-of-heart-is-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bellion Salutes Miike Snow With Stripped-Down Cover of \u2018Heart Is Full\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/8244209m.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI love being the most unknown known person,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jon-bellion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jon-bellion\" data-tag=\"jon-bellion\">Jon Bellion<\/a> triumphantly states on this week\u2019s episode of Spotify Under Cover. The 28-year-old rapper tells the podcast a piece of advice he\u2019s gotten from Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson: \u201cIt\u2019s okay to be mega-successful and not famous. Because if you\u2019re about the music, then your product will speak for itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bellion\u2019s earliest memory of listening to music is his mother playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/paul-simon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-simon\" data-tag=\"paul-simon\">Paul Simon<\/a> in the car on the drive to school, specifically \u201cYou Can Call Me Al\u201d and Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cThe Boxer.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beatles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-beatles\" data-tag=\"the-beatles\">The Beatles<\/a>\u2019 <em>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/em> also made an impression. Bellion said his last album <em>Glory Sound Prep<\/em> was heavily influenced by the Fab Four\u2019s psychedelic masterpiece. \u201cThat really blew my mind when I was a kid, \u2019cause those records even to this day are cooler than 90% of the stuff that comes out.\u201d Here, here!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAndrew is an absolute animal,\u201d Bellion says when speaking about his decision to cover Wyatt\u2019s band Miike Snow. \u201cIt\u2019s just a salute to them really,\u201d the rapper says. \u201cAnd my fans who don\u2019t know who they are, it might be a great opportunity to get them hip to what they\u2019re doing and the dope-ness that\u2019s inspired me over so many years. I just respect them and think they\u2019re amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bellion was in a cab on his way to Spotify Studios, trying to memorize the lyrics to Miike Snow\u2019s \u201cHeart Is Full.\u201d He recruited guitarist John Peters for the session. The result was a stripped-down, acoustic rendition of the song. \u201cI just walked in and sang today,\u201d Bellion said, laughing. \u201cSo it worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jon-bellion-miike-snow-heart-is-full-cover-842753\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love being the most unknown known person,\u201d Jon Bellion triumphantly states on this week\u2019s episode of Spotify Under Cover. The 28-year-old rapper tells the podcast a piece of advice he\u2019s gotten from Andrew Wyatt and Mark Ronson: \u201cIt\u2019s okay to be mega-successful and not famous. Because if you\u2019re about the music, then your product [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 02:59:34","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}