grandson mixes music with politics in new singles
In late March, Toronto rock star grandson released his first single of 2018 “thoughts & prayers.” With this release, grandson has a political message about gun violence, and he achieves this through his heavy guitars and modern beats.
May 15, 2018
With his heavy guitar riffs and fuzzed vocals, grandson is back, and this time he has a message about gun violence.
On March 23, dirty rock artist grandson released his first group of singles for 2018, “thoughts & prayers” and “Blood // Water.”
The New Jersey-born,Toronto-raised artist experiments with a new style of music. Combining both heavy, dirty rock, blues, and modern trap beats, grandson’s experimental genre has generated many listeners and fans since his debut in 2016.
In his single “thoughts and prayers,” grandson uses his music as a political message. His song focuses on how the thoughts and prayers that politicians send out are useless toward the problem of gun violence. The song starts out with a singing children’s choir and then switches over to a fast paced beat with grandson singing his political lyrics. Later, during the chorus, the beat switches to a louder, electronic, almost dubstep beat while grandson passes blame for recent shootings with the lyrics, “the body count is on your hands.”
In early May, rising rock star grandson released his new single “Blood // Water.” In his new single, grandson continues his unique music style mixing heavy rock guitar and electronic beats.
Although released at the same time, the song “Blood // Water” has had much more success. With the rock and roll guitar, the modern beat, and grandson’s fuzzed vocals, he delivers another example of how genre-blending could be the future of music. The song starts out with a soft slow intro including himself and a light guitar. Throughout the beginning of the song up to the chorus, it picks up tempo. Using the formula that he uses in many of his songs, grandson utilizes guitar and modern trap beats. The chorus of the song features a fast-paced, electronic-driven melody which excites its listeners.
Despite political identification, or thoughts on gun violence, there is no denying that grandson, and his unique style of music, could very well be the future of rock n roll music. Combining the parts of heavy dirty rock with the heavy, over-driven guitar and fuzzed vocals, and adding parts of today’s popular electronic beats, grandson could continue to mesmerize listeners with future releases.
