{"id":2447318,"date":"2019-08-08T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=869020"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:40:15","slug":"hear-johnny-marrs-searing-new-song-the-bright-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-johnny-marrs-searing-new-song-the-bright-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Johnny Marr\u2019s Searing New Song \u2018The Bright Parade\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/johnnymarr.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Former Smiths guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/johnny-marr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_johnny-marr\" data-tag=\"johnny-marr\">Johnny Marr<\/a> unveiled his second new song of 2019, \u201cThe Bright Parade.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Though much of the song is cloaked in a gauzy, shoegaze aura, \u201cThe Bright Parade\u201d is anchored by a mesmerizing scorcher of a guitar riff and a churning bass line. In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/diymag.com\/2019\/08\/08\/johnny-marr-interview-the-bright-parade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><em>DIY<\/em><\/a>, Marr said the song was partly inspired by his interest in outer space, which he deftly connected to another kind of star system \u2014 the world of celebrity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI think this track is more of a story\u2026 more of a psychedelic musical track,\u201d Marr said. \u201cMaybe I\u2019ve been quite preoccupied with the cosmos over the last couple of years but it\u2019s the perfect metaphor for the star system \u2014 whether that\u2019s a rock star or a movie star or a reality TV star. I think half my mind was still in the cosmos and the other half was around these vacuous modern day reality stars. \u2018The Bright Parade\u2019 puts the two together and puts it on top of a psychedelic backing track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Bright Parade\u201d follows Marr\u2019s previously released song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/johnny-marr-new-song-music-video-armatopia-798818\/\">\u201cArmatopia,\u201d<\/a> which arrived in February with a karaoke-themed music video. Marr released his latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/johnny-marr-how-trump-brexit-inspired-political-new-album-call-the-comet-630291\/\">solo album, <em>Call the Comet<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;in 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/johnny-marr-new-song-the-bright-parade-869020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr unveiled his second new song of 2019, \u201cThe Bright Parade.\u201d Though much of the song is cloaked in a gauzy, shoegaze aura, \u201cThe Bright Parade\u201d is anchored by a mesmerizing scorcher of a guitar riff and a churning bass line. In an interview with DIY, Marr said the song was [&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-2447318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:58:14","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\/2447318","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=2447318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}