{"id":2675959,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/2675959/?format=json","airdate":"2019-12-20T14:57:19-08:00","show":46176,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/46176/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Did My Best","track_id":"c3f345aa-ec70-4294-8c57-2a3790a6023a","recording_id":null,"artist":"The Voidz","artist_ids":["6a93cb2b-d33a-42fc-a41a-542e3a887ba6"],"album":"Did My Best","release_id":"cf5bfc5a-7d2d-4369-8964-5ef5cf3ce52e","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Terrible Records"],"label_ids":["09ec3fcc-17ae-464d-8cb7-d702565af959"],"release_date":"2019-12-13","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Julian Casablancas was partly inspired to write his new Voidz single, “Did My Best,” by Algerian street vendors in Paris — specifically the Auto-Tuned Arabic music they listened to while “selling tourist crap. That seeped into my subconscious,” he tells Rolling Stone.\n\nWhen he acquired an Auto-Tune pedal, his imagination took off. “In Indian music and Middle Eastern music, they use more notes [than in Western music],” he says. “But the truth is, those notes are secretly in Western music. … When you do a melody with Auto-Tune, it’s almost a different melody. Ten percent of the melodies jump off to a new level with Auto-Tune. It’s a whole other level of harmony.” <br><br>\nAuto-Tune colors the end of the song, where Casablancas repeats the phrase, “I can only change what I can change,” and features heavily on “The Eternal Tao,” released in May of this year. That song and “Did My Best” appear in a new video from the Voidz out Friday, which features the band having a party with a bunch of sex dolls. Mac DeMarco and Kirin J Callinan also appear in the video; DeMarco engineered both songs, while Callinan “dream weaved,” Casablancas says. https://bit.ly/2S9HI29\n<br><br>\nWatch the video for ‘Did My Best’\n“The Eternal Tao” double-header here: https://bit.ly/2EHhNa5","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}