{"id":40602,"date":"2024-05-31T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40602"},"modified":"2024-05-12T08:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T12:23:22","slug":"model-child-shares-video-for-overdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=40602","title":{"rendered":"Model Child shares video for \u2018Overdrive\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Model Child has released the video for the single <em>Overdrive<\/em>. Watch the video clip via YouTube below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<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\/QAzzQMwHyxE?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br> Back in college, Danny Parker\u2014a.k.a. the L.A.-based art rock act Model Child\u2014experienced a bad acid trip that eventually saved his life. \u201cI had a full break with reality,\u201d he remembers now, describing the ordeal, which took place at a music festival in Florida. \u201c<em>I sort of didn\u2019t come out of the trip.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time, Parker had been dealing with the accumulated effects of a confusing and challenging adolescence, growing up queer in the paranoid suburban area of Herndon, Virginia, which is awash in the tide of various government agencies located nearby. \u201c<em>A lot of the people who live there are a part of the military industrial complex,\u201d<\/em> he explains. \u201c<em>I remember we\u2019d be eating dinner, the doorbell would ring, and it would be somebody from, like, the CIA.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But music was a constant through all that\u2014a stabilizing force in a turbulent environment. And even while having trouble fitting into the larger schooling system, Parker\u2019s innate ability to pick up any instrument grabbed the attention of teachers and friends, who pushed him to keep going. \u201c<em>I think I really needed that when I was a kid,\u201d<\/em> he says. So when he was back at home, recovering with the help of doctors from his break from reality, it was clear what else he needed to come back through to the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Music was this beacon of light,\u201d<\/em> he says. \u201c<em>It was very healing to be able to process through songwriting, and just emotionally understand what happened.\u201d<\/em> The Model Child sound\u2014a punk-art rock-indie-electronic smorgasbord just as likely to draw the ears of fans of Talking Heads as Fischerspooner\u2014has been in the works ever since, rolling up various sounds, styles, and inspirations like a Katamari ball, bringing Parker deep into the belly of the music-industry machine and back out again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That process began in his early twenties, when he was recruited by a former bandmate to contribute as a songwriter for hire in the pop-music realm. Parker studied the art of the Top 40, learning to be a \u201ccapital-S songwriter,\u201d and picked it up quickly, as he always has. That led to a hit\u2014which led to another hit, and another after that. Soon, Parker became an in-demand industry collaborator, co-writing songs from some of the biggest names in music, from Shawn Mendes (\u201cStitches\u201d) to Jessie Ware (\u201cWhat\u2019s Your Pleasure?\u201d) to Pussy Riot (\u201cPlaything\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parker says his work in that world \u201csharpened my tools,\u201d as he put it, but it\u2019s a different mindset from what Model Child is\u2014which is an embrace of their \u201c<em>relationship to music outside of this goal of writing a hit song.\u201d<\/em> Not that earworm Model Child tracks like <em>My Queer Teenage Anthem<\/em> and <em>Drain Me<\/em>, the latter from the 2020 debut \u2018Dropout,\u2019 aren\u2019t indie hits of their own\u2014or that music from Get There! isn\u2019t certifiably club-ready. It\u2019s just that Model Child is all of that\u2014from the mainstream to the obscure\u2014together.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>There\u2019s so many reasons to listen to music, to play music, to see music being performed,<\/em>\u201d Parker says. \u201c<em>Having this project has been a way to come back to my deeper relationship to the artform itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The music of \u2018Get There!\u2019\u2014big, booming dance-rock anthems that feel designed for opening up a house party\u2014actually started as an experiment in staving off loneliness. It was late 2021, and Parker was living in New York City, craving the kind of human contact that had become so precarious at that time. So he decided to will the desire into existence: \u201c<em>I went into it wanting to make danceable songs,\u201d<\/em> he says. \u201cSomething extroverted, kinetic, active.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was also the experiment of making art in a pressure cooker. Working with producer Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Jackie Mendoza), Parker wrote and recorded most of the material \u201con the fly.\u201d \u201c<em>The record was really in the spirit of trying to capture a moment and not to overthink anything,<\/em>\u201d he says. The result is an album overflowing with songs that will get stuck in your head immediately, but will draw out new nuanced details on repeated listens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <em>Headlights<\/em>, a blistering semi-truck of a rock song that\u2019s as much early Phoenix as it is the Strokes, Parker taps into the feelings of being blinded by the high-beams of someone on crash course toward you; on <em>Overdrive<\/em>, he creates an eerie, delicate scene that builds into the sort of musical euphoria that speaks to Parker\u2019s own salvation in music: \u201c<em>This beat might save your life tonight,\u201d<\/em> he sings, \u201c<em>Let\u2019s kick it into overdrive.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record\u2019s title\u2014\u2018Get There!\u2019\u2014is a playful nod to the push-push mindset of the city it was created in, New York, and the country at large, wanting it to signify an image of movement and energy. But in typical Model Child fashion, it\u2019s also a subversion of that idea just the same, poking fun at the silliness of the self-imposed chaos of our lives\u2014of the idea that a better life is always \u201c<em>just around the corner,<\/em>\u201d as Parker says.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>On the subway, it\u2019s like, everyone\u2019s going somewhere,\u201d<\/em> Parker laughs. \u201c<em>Where are we going?\u201d There\u2019s only one \u201cthere\u201d he wants to go with you: \u201cGetting to a place outside of yourself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Model Child has released the video for the single Overdrive. Watch the video clip via YouTube below. 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