Alice Merton has shared her new single entitled “Funny Business.” When talking about the track Alice says, “I’m not someone who messes around, nor do I like being messed around with. My gut will always tell me if something makes sense or not. Who I should and shouldn’t trust. I can promise you one thing in life… I don’t do funny business.”
“Funny Business” will be featured on her LP entitled “Mint“, which is out 1/18/2019 via Mom+Pop Music. Recently Alice’s breakout single “No Roots” was certified gold by the RIAA. Check out Alice’s upcoming tour dates below and pre-orderMinthere.
Tour Dates: 11/30 – Orlando, FL – WQMP Florida Man Music Festival 12/1 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL – WSFS Riptide Music Festival 12/2 – Tampa, FL – 97X Next Big Thing 12/5 – Buffalo, NY – WLKK Kerfuffle Before Christmas 12/8 – Portland, OR – KNRK December to Remember 12/9 – San Diego, CA – KBZT Not So Silent Night
Alice Merton wants to know why you’re being so damn serious.
The chart-topping singer-songwriter wrote her most euphoric, pop-friendly track to date at a time when critics and hot-takers seemed intent on sucking the joy out of everything.
“I kept getting asked in interviews, ‘Do you think you’re gonna be a one-hit wonder?’” Alice Merton laughs. “I went into the studio and said, ‘Music is supposed to be fun! We don’t write songs to be hits, we write songs so we feel good.’”
Out came “Why So Serious,” with Alice Merton shimmying circles around the noise and the nonsense with parade of jubilant hooks. It’s the closing salvo on MINT, an 11-track cavalcade of such powerhouses, and a long-awaited, hard-fought triumph of a debut album (out Jan. 18 on Mom + Pop Music). There are anthems for self-reliance, growing up, lashing out, and finding home in a whirlwind of FaceTime conversations and passport stamps.
“Some talk about growing up and moving around a lot,” the English-German artist (who once moved 12 times over 24 years) observes, “But a lot of others discuss the struggles we’ve had with starting a label, the feeling of trying to prove yourself to everyone.” While studying at University of Popular Music and Music Business, Alice Merton founded Paper Plane Records Int. with her best friend and manager Paul Grauwinkel, while crafting songs alongside co-writer and producer Nicolas Rebscher. Label and radio reps scoffed at “No Roots” – It’s a minute too long! Take the guitars out! – but by the time it topped Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart in the U.S. and amassed over 142 million YouTube streams, naysayers turned to supporters.
Long safe from those one-hit wonder jabs (the fiery “Lash Out” followed “No Roots” as an alt radio staple) MINT finds Alice Merton progressing from the owner of a handful of hits to an accomplished album artist. On “Funny Business,” she ventures outside her usual circle of collaborators and enlists Grammy-nominated producer John Hill (co-producer and co-writer of Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still”) for a swaggering, bass-groovy joyride that’s ready to duke it out with “Why So Serious” for the title of Alice Merton’s next big hit. It also doubles as her own personal dos and don’ts checklist: “I don’t break hearts / I don’t do funny business / I just ride in cars / And watch them get hung up in it.” Seriously, why so serious?
For fans who have been there from the start, MINT is the full-length affirmation; for newcomers, it’s a virtual greatest hits of two globetrotting years spent living, adapting, and creating. With extensive touring and one of 2019’s standout debuts on the way, Alice Merton’s metamorphosis from Hype Machine and Shazam sensation to bona fide stardom is starting to… take root. She has gone platinum in six countries, amassed over 261 million global streams, sold out headlining dates in New York and Washington, D.C., and has been championed by the likes of Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, James Corden’s Late Late Show, and Live With Kelly and Ryan. “It feels really relieving,” she affirms. “I’m excited we can finally put these songs out and even start working on the next chapter.”
Mint – Tracklisting 1. Learn To Live 2. 2 Kids 3. No Roots 4. Funny Business 5. Homesick 6. Lash Out 7. Speak your Mind 8. Don’t Hold A Grudge 9. Honeymoon Heartbreak 10. Trouble In Paradise 11. Why So Serious
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Photo Credits: Paper Planes Records
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