{"id":27036,"date":"2017-10-06T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27036"},"modified":"2017-10-06T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T13:02:45","slug":"rentals-release-new-single-elon-musk-making-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27036","title":{"rendered":"The Rentals release new single &#8216;Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27037\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=1220%2C1220\" alt=\"The rentals Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad\" width=\"1220\" height=\"1220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?w=1220 1220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=144%2C144 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=624%2C624 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=176%2C176 176w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?resize=60%2C60 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Open up any search engine and enter three little words &#8220;Elon Musk is&#8221; and here are the results that you are likely to find&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\">elon musk is from the future<\/span><span class=\"e2ma-style\">, elon musk is a marketing genius, <b>elon musk is making mars habitable<\/b>, elon musk is a fraud, <b>elon musk is an idiot<\/b>, elon musk is crazy, <b>elon musk is getting fat<\/b>, elon musk is tony stark, <b>elon musk is iron man<\/b>, elon musk is evil, <b>elon musk is running out of money<\/b>, elon musk is a billionaire, <b>elon musk is a master of deception<\/b>, elon musk is the most cautious leader, <b>elon musk is building his own hyperloop<\/b>, elon musk is blind, <b>elon musk is telling fairytales<\/b>, elon musk is a perfect gentlemen, <b>elon musk is officially single<\/b>, elon musk is a radical thinker, <b>elon musk is betting big on donald trump<\/b>, elon musk is the most important person on twitter, <b>elon musk is a sociopath<\/b>, elon musk is right, <b>elon musk is wrong<\/b>, elon musk is really boring, <b>elon musk is an alien<\/b>, elon musk is the world&#8217;s raddest man, <b>elon musk is about to launch a lethal pathogen into space<\/b>, elon musk is a super villain, <b>elon musk is fascinated by amber heard<\/b>, elon musk is really stupid, <b>elon musk is a criminal<\/b>, elon musk is having none of it, <b>elon musk is revolting<\/b>, elon musk is determined to change the world, <b>elon musk is having a really, really lousy year<\/b>, elon musk is convinced killer robots are coming, <b>elon musk is my hero<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The shape-shifting, Los Angeles-based, musical collective known as, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2y4raOu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rentals<\/a> featuring Matt Sharp\u00a0and Nick Zinner (from <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2yMzxvy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yeah Yeah Yeahs<\/a>) with (Grammy Award Winning producer\/mixer) Dave Fridmann are self-releasing the first song from their new album with a message that you are unlikely to have heard before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the lyric video for the track <em>Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad<\/em> via YouTube below to find out. Get ready, you&#8217;re going to wan to sing along to this one.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/taupuK6oND4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information on The Rentals, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therentals.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">therentals.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Open up any search engine and enter three little words &#8220;Elon Musk is&#8221; and here are the results that you are likely to find&#8230; elon <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=27036\" title=\"The Rentals release new single &#8216;Elon Musk Is Making Me Sad&#8217;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,28,30],"tags":[6728,6729,838,2320],"class_list":["post-27036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","tag-elon-musk-is-making-me-sad","tag-matt-sharp","tag-nick-zinner","tag-the-rentals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/161c3cbda6836abcbb94bdfb_1220x1220.jpg?fit=1220%2C1220","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-724","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32918,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32918","url_meta":{"origin":27036,"position":0},"title":"The Rentals share new single \u2018Forgotten Astronaut\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"November 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Two years ago\u00a0Matt Sharp\u00a0begged Elon Musk to send him to outer space\u2026 that dream became a reality, as\u00a0The Rentals\u00a0launched\u00a0\u2018Q36\u2019 with the single\u00a0Forgotten Astronaut. 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