{"id":39439,"date":"2023-05-09T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39439"},"modified":"2023-05-06T08:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T12:52:06","slug":"baxter-dury-shares-new-single-celebrate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39439","title":{"rendered":"Baxter Dury shares new single\u00a0\u2018Celebrate Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Musician, writer and Renaissance man\u00a0Baxter Dury\u00a0has shared\u00a0<em>Celebrate Me<\/em>, the third track lifted from his forthcoming\u00a0seventh studio album\u00a0\u2018I Thought I Was Better Than You\u2019. Due for release\u00a0June 2\u00a0via\u00a0Heavenly Recordings, the album is produced by\u00a0Paul White, celebrated for his work in\u00a0Golden Rules\u00a0and with the likes of\u00a0Charli XCX\u00a0and\u00a0Danny Brown.\u00a0Baxter on his new track \u201c<em>A stream of consciousness rant about\u00a0being predictably\u00a0bohemian, west London-ish and attention seeking.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the video for <em>Celebrate Me<\/em> 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\/cm7RC6SQGEQ?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>Baxter Dury\u2019s latest album,\u00a0\u2018I Thought I Was Better Than You,\u2019 is a new era for him, and with this new era comes a new character. \u201c<em>Faux-confrontational<\/em>,\u201d Baxter calls him. Here, not only is he recounting his childhood, but he\u2019s also reckoning with it. Instead of just swinging at his past blindfolded with a baseball bat, he talks openly about the toxic cocktail of being born into unfortunately fortunate circumstances, with a persuasive surname but no structure or sense of responsibility with which reap the rewards of it. \u201c<em>Really, it\u2019s about being trapped in an awkward place between something you\u2019re actually quite good at, and somebody else\u2019s success.\u201d<\/em> That \u2018somebody else\u2019 being his dad, Ian Dury. As one of the album centerpieces \u2013 Shadow \u2013 agonizingly puts it: \u201c<em>But no one will get over that you\u2019re someone\u2019s son\/Even though you want to be like Frank Ocean\/But you don\u2019t sound like him, you sound just like Ian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/files.constantcontact.com\/43a1b12f601\/bfd47698-33e5-4e6c-968d-8cde2d928c9e.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Baxter Dury I Thought I Was Better Than You cover artwork \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018I Thought I Was Better Than You\u2019 track list<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. So Much Money<br>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/baxter-dury-shares-new-single-aylesbury-boy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Baxter Dury shares new single \u2018Aylesbury Boy\u2019\">Aylesbury\u202fBoy<\/a><br>3. Celebrate\u202fMe<br>4. Leon<br>5. Crashes<br>6. Sincere<br>7. Pale White Nissan feat JGrrey<br>8. 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