“When life gets hard, put it on your credit card!” Christopher the Conquered has too much fun giving life advice in new video.

“Sonically bold and lyrically acerbic enthusiasm... Born entertainer… has aptly been likened to Elton John,” says The Big Takeover.
 
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 Christopher Ford of Christopher the Conquered as photographed by Josh Terzino.
 
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Christopher the Conquered | In The Press
 
 
“Impressive.” — Consequence of Sound
 
“Raw, emotional.” — Alternative Press
 
“Reminiscent of a young Elton John.” — Yahoo! Music
 
“His winning charm is subtle.” — Paste
 
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[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHYxgb-Q5vo
 
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About “Put It On Your Credit Card” by Christopher the Conquered

Watch at The Big Takeover or listen at Bad Copy!
 
 
 “‘Put It On Your Credit Card’ is directly inspired by the number of times I had to take on debt to stay on the road, to record the next song, etc.,” says Christopher Ford aka Christopher the Conquered. “I half fear money and half don’t think it’s even real. Barely making a living as a singer-songwriter definitely gave me a thick skin around risk, so I’m kinda serious when I’m telling people to ‘put it on your credit card!’ It’s not like we have debtor’s prisons anymore, and once you die, it’s all gone anyway (as long as you don’t get married... I think!)”
 
As for the song’s music video, Ford comments, “One of the reasons I chose this song to do a video for is because it’s short, which made doing the video a hell of a lot easier, and it’s silly, so I could do whatever I wanted, and it kinda made sense. Most of the creative decisions made in this video were determined by what John Young (the owner of my label Grand Phony) had around his house in Pennsylvania. I was bumming around his house and digging through his basement. Turns out a guy with three daughters has a ton of fun toys and costumes around, and he’s got a hot tub, so that had to be in the video, too. It was really just a fun afternoon of filming a bunch of stuff we thought would work, and then throwing it together. Probably the easiest music video I’ve ever made.”
 
Christopher Ford of Christopher the Conquered is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
 
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 [STREAM]: https://Fanatic.lnk.to/ChristopherTheConquered-PutItOnYourCreditCard
 
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Christopher the Conquered
I Am Christopher
Sept. 25^th, 2020
(Grand Phony Music)
 

 
Track Listing:
01. Pick Up Your Telephone
02. Put It On Your Credit Card (STREAM | VIDEO)
03. Try Again
04. This Is Not Love
05. You Can’t Rush the Rain
06. Love Is Not Something You Find
07. Slowest Girl In the World (STREAM | VIDEO)
08. Ordinary Person
09. The Old Record Store Down By the Sea
10. Paper Man [BONUS TRACK]
11. Too Many Teardrops (Toby Wright’s Magic Barn Mix) [BONUS TRACK]
12. Try Your Best [BONUS TRACK]
 
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Christopher the Conquered | About
 
“There is something deeply off about everything tht's happening here and I'm 100% sold.” – Brightest Young Things

“You know Garfield, he’s a cartoon cat, you got a telephone in the shape of his body yeah, but you don’t pick it up! Why don’t you pick it up? Pick it up!” – Christopher the Conquered
 
Thought it was a lyric from the next Justin Timberlake album, huh? Justin Timberlake wishes it was. The casual groove intermingles with a chorus of female background vocalists and a horn section, but it’s the “deeply off” that owns.
 
Yes, it’s actually Christopher the Conquered who is bringing sexy back on his latest album I Am Christopher (Grand Phony, Sept. 25^th), opening with this cut and heading right into the album’s first single “Put It On Your Credit Card,” which is what Christopher (actual last name Ford) says you should do “when life gets hard” because “those motherfuckers got enough money anyway.”
 
A mere two sentences in and life advice has been given, even gifted, if you will.
 
It’s how Ford rolls as Alternative Press noted in 2016 about his previous record I’m Giving Up On Rock & Roll, calling it “raw” and “emotional,” which is so, but doesn’t go far enough in explaining the head-on collision of Freddie Mercury, Ben Folds, and Hedwig that gets splattered all over the highway that is this record.
 
And like these icons, real and imagined, Ford has a sense of humor that lets his performances go way off into outer space without ever failing to remain grounded in truth.
 
Growing up in Iowa and now residing in Colorado, Ford’s spent a lot of time away from home during a decade of touring that landed him on stages with other like-minded songsmiths who also hold the line between fantastic personas and self-effacing humanism: Leon Russell, Andrew Bird, Sturgill Simpson, The Mountain Goats, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and more.
 
And this one deserves its own line: Ford has also been compared in the press to the most out there of all:  Elton John. See also: Donald Duck stage costume.
 
As for I Am Christopher, the endlessly catchy songs here are not only packed with humor, they’re bubbling with reflection, as the title suggests.
 
I Am Christopher, the latest album by Christopher the Conquered, is out Sept. 25^th  via Grand Phony.
 
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Christopher the Conquered | Links
 
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