I should be sleeping as I have to get up for work early tomorrow, but I stayed up late for the Baby FuzZ’s new single, that was just released and which was and is being advertised as ft. LP, BUT… Is it just me, or I can’t hear her at all?…
My point being: why use one of the best voices of our times only to distort it to the point of being unrecognizable? Anyways, it is what it is. The track was co-written by LP, and the song itself is OK, I just wish I could hear LP’s voice in it, not only the heavy mixing.
After Baby FuzZ:
To all LP fans, thanks for supporting this tune! We wrote the song together, and it was originally a consideration for her album, but didn’t make it on. So I decided with her permission to release it as a separate song. You can hear her vocals in the chants on all choruses and layered in throughout. I wish I could have added more of her vocals, but it was too difficult with quarantine to do more. Anyways, thanks for your support and hope this clarifies. Enjoy the song!
After press release about the song:
Before Our Time’ is a tune I wrote with LP about the idea of a friendship being before its time. The song is an upbeat affirmation revisiting the relationship as too forward thinking for its own good. It’s a feeling of nostalgia for being too futuristic, which is kind of a paradox.
Baby FuzZ (aka Sterling Fox), is one of the more successful songwriters in the pop music world, having written with the likes of Madonna, Max Martin, Lana Del Rey, and others.
After press release:
Shortly after the Trump election, he quit collaborative writing, moved to Canada, and disappeared from the music world completely. After a year of isolation in Montreal, Fox returned to the US and reemerged as Baby FuzZ, a bizarre paradigm of audiovisual glam rock and normcore. Throughout 2018, FuzZ dropped a myriad of singles and self produced music videos, gathering the attention of a small but loyal online cult fanbase. In 2019, Baby FuzZ released his debut album Plastic Paradise independently and embarked on a 100 date diy tour around the US.
But if the debut was his first contact, 2020’s new followup Welcome To The Future is sure to be Baby FuzZ’s full blown alien invasion. It’s a wild concept album amazingly relevant to a dystopian America currently in the throes of a pandemic. The bulk of the album was made in quarantine in Los Angeles, and to be sure, it’s an absolutely expansive yet claustrophobic opus of bedroom glam rock.
Ranging from the shameless cock rock anthem “Before Our Time” featuring LP, to a faux incel mariachi jam called “Weekend Blues” to the ambient saxophone ballad “Acid Night” about dropping acid at a Dodgers game, Welcome To The Future is astoundingly diverse. Lyrically, it’s an absolute masterclass in oddity, with FuzZ writing at times from the point of view of an orca, suburbanites named Kevin and Karen, and a cellphone. All in all, it’s an immediate and compelling album with heavy doses of conservationism, disguised symbolism, and good old fashioned American absurdity.
Before Our Time – lyrics
Well we jumped the gun
It was all too much
But you know what, that’s love for you
Don’t think too much
‘Cuz when you do, you’re done
But you know what, that’s life for you
Whoa we were walking down the road
Like Patti Smith with a new iPhone
Whoa and our future’s on parole
If you don’t give a fuck, then you don’t get old.
Whoa
Full of love
Full of shit
For a while
We were way before our time
Whoa
We were gods
We were kids
You and I
We were way before our time
Whoa
We were way before our time
Whoa
Well we jumped the shark
Turntables and Jurassic Park
But you know what, that’s karma for you
Where the wild winds blow
Clowns in a solar panel powered rodeo
But you know what, that’s California
Whoa we were headed out on tour
Like Jesus Christ with a PS4
Whoa precocious and ignored
But the world won’t end, just the dinosaurs
Whoa
Full of love
Full of shit
For a while
We were way before our time
Whoa
We were gods
We were kids
You and I
We were way before our time
Whoa
We were way before our time
Whoa
(Guitar!)
Whoa
Whoa
Anna from Poland. I have been a blogger for a long time, but more in a royal field. Since 'meeting' LP through her music and as a person, a lot has changed. If I'm not working on my blog, I work as a teacher. I love to travel, read & dance. I sing & play uke when no one listens. Music was always a big part of my life.
