Newly released eye-popping stop-motion video for
band’s “Plastic Fantastic” single takes Barbie dolls to a dark place.
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Johanna Stahley of TKTTSM as
photographed by Brittany Sturrett.
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“Eyeyeye” is latest single from the self-titled
debut album by TKTTSM.
[SOUNDCLOUD]: http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/tkttsm-eyeyeye
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Check out the “Plastic Fantastic” video premiere at
diffuser.fm.
TKTTSM (an acronym for The
Kiss Tried To Smack Me pronounced “ticketism”) has posted the latest single
from its self-titled debut album for download.
Called “brilliant” by music discovery website adequacy.net,
“Eyeyeye” is a “dazzling, surreal,
dreamy number, lyrically seemingly in line with ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,’” according to writer Jen Stratosphere.
“That might be my favorite song on the album,” says TKTTSM vocalist, Johanna Stahley. “I remember I was so deep in thought driving
through Queens that I got lost and ended up in the projects. That’s when ‘Fists
punching in the skyeyeyeye’ popped into my head. I brought it to Owen (O’Mahony – the other half of the Brooklyn-based duo), and we
figured out the rest.”
“‘Fists punching in the sky’ was just this really
strong image for us,” explains O’Mahony.
“The whole song is this kind of apocalyptic last stand against the end of time.”
The band also recently released the eye-popping, stop-motion
animated video for its single “Plastic
Fantastic” via music discovery website diffuser.fm. See it here: http://diffuser.fm/tkttsm-plastic-fantastic-video.
The video was directed by Bushwick, Brooklyn-based filmmaker Patrick Ryan Morris.
TKTTSM doesn’t mince words in its unabashed anti-social lyrics on the track and
the video lives up to that stance. “We
requested something gritty, tongue-in-cheek and offensive,” says Stahley.
To his credit in fulfilling that request, Morris created a bright, colorful world
which he then takes to a very dark place. “I think it fits the nature of the
song,” Morris says. “The Barbie dolls
just seemed like a natural fit as they do all of these terrible things, but
have the same frozen smile on their face while they do them, just like many of
our enemies and even many of our leaders.”
TKTTSM is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic to talk to the band or for more
information.
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TKTTSM
S/T
(Sumxuni Records)
Out Now
Track Listing:
01. Calisthenics
03. I Wanted To
04. Edumication
06. Dear Diary
07. Japanteup
08. Porcupine
09. Focus
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TKTTSM Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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