2. About the band.
The Naked And Famous are a band who originate from Auckland in
Australia. The members are: Alisa Xayalith, Jesse Wood, Aaron Short,
Thom Powers, and David Beadle. The Naked and Famous formed in
2008 after Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith recorded singles with
Aaron Short at music college. Later, these got released locally with a
label ‘Round Trip Mars’, this gave the band hope and they
consequently began to perform live. At this point, Jordan Clarke was
on the drums and Ben Knapp was on bass. In 2009 both Jordan and
Ben left the band and this is when Jesse Wood and David Beadle
made their appearance and became full time members of the band.
Interestingly, the band chose their name from a line in a song called
‘Tricky Kid’, this line was ‘everybody wants to be naked and famous’.
By June 2012, The Naked and Famous had played to more than
600,000 people in 24 countries.
7. Fiction Records
Fiction Records started in 1978 by Chris Parry.
The first time that fiction became truly known
and popular was when Snow Patrol released
their single ‘Run’, which entered the UK chart at
number 5. Snow Patrol’s next album that they
released called ‘Final Straw’ sold over 2 million
copies worldwide.
Currently fiction represent Crystal Castles,
elbow, Ian Brown, Jamie N Commons, Kaiser
Chiefs, Kate Boy, Last Dinosaurs, Nick
Mulvey, The Maccabees, Seasick Steve, Snow
Patrol, Spector, Tired Pony, White Lies and Willy
Mason.
8. Republic Records
This American record label started in 1995 by
Monte and Avery Lipman and is owned by UMG,
Universal Music Group. Since 1995, the label
has gone through many changes and
adaptations to make it what is it now. Mainly, this
label focus’ on mainstream and urban music and
they were listed as 2012's top charting U.S.
label.
Republic Records have worked with a lot of big
names such as Akon, Amy Winehouse, Busta
Rhymes, Drake, Enrique Iglesias, Jessie J, Kelly
Rowland, Lil Wayne, Nelly, Lorde, Nicki Minaj,
Taylor Swift, Tyga, The Weeknd and many
more.
9. Passive Me, Aggressive you
(2009-2013)
This album is The Naked and Famous’ debut studio album and
was released in New Zealand on 6th September 2010 where it
instantly became number 1. This album is known for its huge
range of different music styles such as pop, dance-rock, punk and
electronica. In NME magazine the album was called a ‘glorious
melting pot of pop perfection’ and it received many other positive
feedback especially by critics online and in magazines. In 2011,
the album was nominated for the Taite music prize which was a
delight for the band. Some of the tracks were later released as
singles such as ‘All of This’, then ‘Young Blood’ followed by
‘Punching in a Dream’ and ‘Girls like you’ then finally ‘No Way’.
These tracks became even more popular as they were released
individually, ‘Punching a Dream’ was even adopted as the popular
reality-TV series ‘Made in Chelsea’ theme song.
10. Track List
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1 All of This
2 Punching in a Dream
3 Frayed
4 The Source
5 The Sun
6 Eyes
7 Young Blood
8 No Way
9 Spank
10 Jilted Lovers
11 A Wolf in Geek's Clothing
12 The Ends
13 Girls Like You
11. In Rolling Waves (2013)
This album is The Naked and Famous’ second studio
album and was firstly released in New Zealand on 13th
September 2013, in the UK it was released 3 days later on
the 16th September and then on the 17th in America. On the
23rd July 2013 one of their tracks called ‘Hearts Like Ours’
was first played on BBC Radio 1 in advance prior to the
release of the album. Following the release of the album,
the band toured the US with an alternative rock ensemble
‘The Colourist’. On the New Zealand Album chart in 2013
‘In Rolling Waves’ peaked at fourth. The Guardian rated
this album with four out of five stars whilst NME gave it a
measly 7/10 complimenting the album writing ‘Alisa
Xayalith’s cute-as-kitten vocals softening the edges’.
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1 A Stillness
2 Hearts Like Ours
3 Waltz
4 Rolling Waves
5 The Mess
6 Grow Old
7 Golden Girl
8 I Kill Giants
9 What We Want
10 We Are Leaving
11 To Move with Purpose
12 A Small Reunion
13. Awards.
Since 2008, The Naked and Famous have became increasingly
well-known, consequently they have began to be nominated for
various different awards since 2010. The first award that they won
was the ‘APRA Silver Scroll’ awarded for their single ‘Young
Blood’.
At the 2011 New Zealand Music Awards The Naked And Famous
won:
♬ Album of the Year (Passive Me, Aggressive You)
♬ Best Alternative Album (Passive Me, Aggressive You)
♬ Single of the Year (young blood)
♬ Best Group
♬ Breakthrough Artist
As I mentioned earlier they also got nominated for the Taite Music
Prize in 2011
14. Similar Artists
I used amazon.co.uk to find out similar artist to The Naked and
Famous by looking what customers bought after buying and album
by The Naked And Famous. I noticed that MGMTs album appeared, I
deconstructed one of MGMTs albums showing that they have a
similar target market to that of the Naked And Famous as they are
the same genre.
