Note: Sticky With Champagne Lyrics are Unfinished
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Let's Talk #YouLoveYou
You Love You, is blowing up! Everyone can't stop talking about how amazing it really is!
"Rock music’s big on overbearing personalities that shine on stage but you’d keep at arm’s length in person. Axl Rose and Courtney Love spring to mind. We have no idea what Justin Tranter — the frontman for the Lady Gaga-approved NYC glam-band Semi Precious Weapons — is like when he’s shopping at Gristedes, but his persona is of a petulant, narcissistic 6-foot-tall bleach-blonde bisexual minx. In others words, he’s a f**king rock star and he proves it on SPW’s sophomore release You Love You (out 6/29). From the self-titled opener — where Tranter essays our favorite lyric of the year, "I can’t pay my rent, but I’m f**king gorgeous" — to the redundantly perfect closer "Look at Me," You Love You’s a 9-song, 33-minute hit-and-run that’ll leave you gasping for breath. If you find yourself saying, “Oh no, he didn’t!” while listening, chances are he did and that you love it anyway." - Source: Towleroad.com
Semi Precious Weapons and Lady Gaga Having a Celebratory Drink In Honor of You Love You
Semi Precious Weapons are currently number 57 on the iTunes Chart and I believe #9 on the Alternative Chart. You can do better than that weapons! Buy a copy for yourself and for your friends HERE
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
You Love You Hits the U.S.
You Love You is finally available in the U.S.
You can buy your special autographed copy of the album HERE
Also, Semi Precious Weapons is currently Number 9 on the Alternative Charts on iTunes! Please Support them buy buying a copy of their album off iTunes by clicking HERE! You can even gift it to a friend!
"A club sensation in their native N.Y.C., Semi Precious Weapons have steadily raised glitter-laden eyebrows since the band's garage rock-y 2008 independent debut, We Love You. They even nabbed a coveted opening spot on controversial pop diva Lady Gaga's 2010 Monster Ball tour. In truth, the pairing made sense, as Gaga actually opened for the band in 2006 before she was famous. Cut to 2010, and Semi Precious Weapons deliver their sophomore effort and major-label debut You Love You. Once again featuring the vocals of six-foot-tall, ambisexual frontman Justin Tranter, You Love You plays as an amped-up version of We Love You. In fact, the band included re-recorded versions of their anthems "Semi-Precious Weapons" and "Magnetic Baby," originally released on We Love You. The move makes sense in introducing the band to a wider audience and the slightly bigger/polished-fuzz of You Love You's production does nothing to detract from the original versions. Admittedly, a few tracks such as the plodding "Statues of Ourselves" and the slack "Rock and Roll Never Looked so Beautiful" often seem like a lot of flash and personality minus a great pop hook. Ultimately though, tracks like the Led Zeppelin-meets-T. Rex nugget "Put a Diamond in It" and the bratty AC/DC-inspired "I Could Die" are truly a*s-kicking rockers that balance Tranter's snotty, glittery camp with the band's legit, hard rock ballsiness. And while snot'n'roll is pretty much Semi Precious Weapons bread and butter, Tranter's epic latter album ballad "Leave Your Pretty to Me" is a bittersweet love letter to all the fan girls he's never been able to love before, but for whom the album's idol worship-invoking album title truly takes on a reflexive and yearning irony. He sings, "Girl, go ahead and drink, cuz I can only be so many things. But when you leave, please leave your pretty to me." If You Love You is any indication, Semi Precious Weapons have plenty of pretty, dirty rock & roll to go around." Source: iTunes
Monday, June 28, 2010
Have You Seen This Magic Yet???
Check-out this amazing mini "You Love You" movie by the wonderfully amazing Stevy Pyne! We're wetter than fishermen over it.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Semi Precious Weapons "Dare To Be Filthy"
After a few tours, any rock act worth its decibels should be able to name a couple of its wilder shows with little effort, but Justin Tranter’s pick for most memorable Semi Precious Weapons concert sounds especially libertine. “We played a show at the Dirt Bar in Houston,” says the waifish, tarted-up firecracker of a singer over the phone from LA. For a reason he doesn’t explain, the self-avowed garage-glam outfit has a substantial fan base among Texas strippers, ex-strippers, and “all sorts of ladies of the evening.” The Houston dive adored SPW so much that it rented a sound system and built a stage for the performance, installing monkey bars on said stage. As Tranter remembers it, the scene at showtime was “a room full of insanely beautiful blonde strippers that desperately wanted to look like me, and a bunch of dirty rock dudes. We stayed in the bar for six hours after our show. That was the most amazing rock-and-roll experience I’ve ever been a part of.”
In his excitement at recounting the event, he forgets to talk about the actual performance. But given that SPW are known for going over the top — a male lead singer in pantyhose, manic dancing, pouring champagne into the audience, histrionic guitar solos — the on-stage details are probably just a blur. And the Dirt Bar show wasn’t that crazy. “It’s very par for the course for Semi Precious Weapons,” says Tranter, with a laugh.
Before 2006, the band were a more sober bunch. The entire original line-up of SPW studied at Berklee College of Music. (Tranter: “I have a degree in songwriting, the drummer has a degree in classical composition, and blah, blah, blah.”) But after they moved away together to pursue life as a working band, their “serious, intellectual” approach was quickly discarded. “We got to New York and were shocked at how boring it was,” Tranter remembers. “I thought girls all wanted to be Debbie Harry in New York City, but they actually wanted to be Sarah Jessica Parker.”
Reacting to this perception, SPW began championing pointedly crude rock inspired by the base sounds they grew up with — Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, Metallica — and emphasizing theatrics as well as sonics. The band aren’t about straight-up glam revival. (Tranter says he hadn’t heard of T. Rex until recently). Rather, they, and some of their NYC peers (like Lady Gaga, for whom they open at the TD Garden next Thursday and Friday), push “filthy glamour” — something “a little filthier, poorer, and grungier than the glam rock everyone thinks of.”
Speaking of “poorer”: finances play a prominent role in “Semi Precious Weapons,” a track on both 2008’s We Love You (Razor & Tie) and the just-released You Love You (Geffen). The music itself is not remarkable (imagine an amped-up, brasher play on Jet’s “Cold Hard Bitch”), but Tranter’s enthusiastic opening wail is: “I can’t pay my rent, but I’m fucking gorgeous.” And he isn’t kidding. Although Semi Precious Weapons are now on a major label and should be getting their share of receipts from their run on Gaga’s tour, Tranter was evicted from his apartment not too long ago, and he remains, he says, “officially homeless, since touring is so fucking expensive.” Not that it’s hurt his lyrics or his attitude. Even when he picked up cans off New York City streets to pay for food, he says, “I was still doing it in five-inch heels and full make-up — looking fantastic.” No wonder strippers like SPW.
Source: The Phoenix
Semi Precious Weapons Twitterview!
Yesterday - Our favorite boys, Semi Precious Weapons, tweeted that they would be answering fans' questions via twitter. We thought, "Hey! What a great idea! Let's post it like an interview." But unfortunately Jawsh and myself got extremely lazy :( So! Before you read this let me warn you. It's kinda complicated.. we didn't fully sort it all out so what you do is - scroll to the very bottom of this post and read from bottom to top. To read the questions just click "In Reply To __________"
Scroll all the way down!
Alright! Phew! That was amazing. Now a question for you all... are you gonna tell everyone you know to buy #YouLoveYou ?
@MonsterCiara94 never get nervous. luckily. via web in reply to MonsterCiara94
@x_littlemonster already have.
@TheFameKingdom we all met at Music school together. We were friends for 4 years before we started the band.
@Lady_Chiara all we have ever wanted to do is play music. since we were kids.
@sophieGAGAward we all came up with the term "filthy glaMOUR" together.
@LadyGagaQuotes yes. #YouLoveYou will be huge. Because the world needs rockNroll again.
@sammonsterr The mask idea was something I've wanted to do for a very long long time.
@LittleLiliB you bought #YouLoveYou 4 times?!?!? Amazing!
@Monster_Jordee I love everyone. Blonde, brunette, ginger...I just love fabulous people.
@Harriet_PawsUp we hope to make an album every year for the next 4 years.
@hausofjay #YouLoveYou
@jasminebridgerx the fans are the best part of the Monster Ball.
@iRycee we were in the studio for a month making #YouLoveYou
@UKfamemonster both at the same time.
@MonsterrWeaponn yes!
@DreamNBelieve yes. xo.
@Lil_FameMonster Yes!
@ohellyeahh Some of the songs are 3 years old, some of them we wrote while recording.
@jrgMONSTER maybe:)
@LeftHandedFitch Lady GaGa and Sharon Stone. Because they are so fucking smart and hot.
@LadyGagaQuotes We are SOOO fucking happy to finally have an album we are truly proud of come out.
@jessimonster being full of filthy glaMOUR is the only way we know how to be.
@GaGasMONSTERpaw they will hear it all. Bonus tracks to come baby.
@weLgaga Leave Your Pretty didn't take the longest to write, but I loved it so much when I wrote it, that I just played it for HOURS!
@aimeemcoles Yes it will be in canada. June 29th!
@sophieGAGAward Justin writes all the lyrics. But we write most of the music as a group.
@IrishSteve like magic. hard work does pay off.
@Meaghan_Monster the best thing about stripping on stage is that I believe rockNroll should be dangerous. And thats pretty dangerous.
@nataliiiie Put A Diamond In It and Sticky With CHampagne are always sooo fun live, but I love them all.
@CaptainKP Its true. I wasnt able to pay rent. You can watch my eviction notice on youtube! Ha!
@Madison_Monster Statues and Leave Your Pretty and Look At Me mean sooo much to me. But I can't really choose a fav.
@NerdofGaga We met gaga because she use to open for us back in NYC in 2006 and 2007. xoxo.
@gagamonster We will hopefully put Leave Your Pretty into our live show very soon. xo.
@x_littlemonster already have.
@TheFameKingdom we all met at Music school together. We were friends for 4 years before we started the band.
@Lady_Chiara all we have ever wanted to do is play music. since we were kids.
@sophieGAGAward we all came up with the term "filthy glaMOUR" together.
@LadyGagaQuotes yes. #YouLoveYou will be huge. Because the world needs rockNroll again.
@sammonsterr The mask idea was something I've wanted to do for a very long long time.
@LittleLiliB you bought #YouLoveYou 4 times?!?!? Amazing!
@Monster_Jordee I love everyone. Blonde, brunette, ginger...I just love fabulous people.
@Harriet_PawsUp we hope to make an album every year for the next 4 years.
@hausofjay #YouLoveYou
@jasminebridgerx the fans are the best part of the Monster Ball.
@iRycee we were in the studio for a month making #YouLoveYou
@UKfamemonster both at the same time.
@MonsterrWeaponn yes!
@DreamNBelieve yes. xo.
@Lil_FameMonster Yes!
@ohellyeahh Some of the songs are 3 years old, some of them we wrote while recording.
@jrgMONSTER maybe:)
@LeftHandedFitch Lady GaGa and Sharon Stone. Because they are so fucking smart and hot.
@LadyGagaQuotes We are SOOO fucking happy to finally have an album we are truly proud of come out.
@jessimonster being full of filthy glaMOUR is the only way we know how to be.
@GaGasMONSTERpaw they will hear it all. Bonus tracks to come baby.
@weLgaga Leave Your Pretty didn't take the longest to write, but I loved it so much when I wrote it, that I just played it for HOURS!
@aimeemcoles Yes it will be in canada. June 29th!
@sophieGAGAward Justin writes all the lyrics. But we write most of the music as a group.
@IrishSteve like magic. hard work does pay off.
@Meaghan_Monster the best thing about stripping on stage is that I believe rockNroll should be dangerous. And thats pretty dangerous.
@nataliiiie Put A Diamond In It and Sticky With CHampagne are always sooo fun live, but I love them all.
@CaptainKP Its true. I wasnt able to pay rent. You can watch my eviction notice on youtube! Ha!
@Madison_Monster Statues and Leave Your Pretty and Look At Me mean sooo much to me. But I can't really choose a fav.
@NerdofGaga We met gaga because she use to open for us back in NYC in 2006 and 2007. xoxo.
@gagamonster We will hopefully put Leave Your Pretty into our live show very soon. xo.
@CariDeeEnglish I have lots of insanely gorgeous friends that cause LOTS of trouble. They end up in my songs. Ms Dee! xo.
@SexpotStephen it is called "You Love You" because everyone should love themselves more than anything.
@InsaneMonsterx3 there are 9 songs on the album.
@Imagine928 we waited to release it in the USA until June 29th, so we would be on tour in North America when it came out.
@ChrisWarhol @musicalmover working with producer Jack Joseph Puig and have Ron Fair as our A&R man was the best part.
@musicalmover working with producer Jack Joseph Puig and have Ron Fair as our A&R man was the best part.
@jtredwell1 put a diamond in it. because violence is glamour.
@GodivaGirlBH I did record the whole album in 5 inch heels. obvs. xo.
@connorbrav the fog is about Lady Starlight and Breedlove. But the song is just about how everyone should know how cool their friends are.
@monstersforever my fav color is nude.
@Joshb89 my fav song changes everyday, but today its Statues Of Ourselves.
@chiarajosephine because you are.
@VeggieHead21 Its about a really gorgeous amazing girl I know who can't stop drinking to much. But she is so fab, I'll always lover her.
@tonyreilly18 We will be making suprise flash mobs of album signings in every venue we go to.
Alright lovers! Lets do this. For the next 10 mins we will try to answer as many questions as we can about the new album. Ask away!
@SexpotStephen it is called "You Love You" because everyone should love themselves more than anything.
@InsaneMonsterx3 there are 9 songs on the album.
@Imagine928 we waited to release it in the USA until June 29th, so we would be on tour in North America when it came out.
@ChrisWarhol @musicalmover working with producer Jack Joseph Puig and have Ron Fair as our A&R man was the best part.
@musicalmover working with producer Jack Joseph Puig and have Ron Fair as our A&R man was the best part.
@jtredwell1 put a diamond in it. because violence is glamour.
@GodivaGirlBH I did record the whole album in 5 inch heels. obvs. xo.
@connorbrav the fog is about Lady Starlight and Breedlove. But the song is just about how everyone should know how cool their friends are.
@monstersforever my fav color is nude.
@Joshb89 my fav song changes everyday, but today its Statues Of Ourselves.
@chiarajosephine because you are.
@VeggieHead21 Its about a really gorgeous amazing girl I know who can't stop drinking to much. But she is so fab, I'll always lover her.
@tonyreilly18 We will be making suprise flash mobs of album signings in every venue we go to.
Alright lovers! Lets do this. For the next 10 mins we will try to answer as many questions as we can about the new album. Ask away!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)