Hollywood (Car Seat Headrest song)

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"Hollywood"
Car Seat Headrest - Hollywood.png
Single by Car Seat Headrest
from the album Making a Door Less Open
ReleasedApril 16, 2020 (2020-04-16)
Recorded
  • January 2019
  • October 2019
Studio Avast Recording Co. (Seattle)
Genre
Length3:23
Label Matador
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Andrew Katz
  • Will Toledo
Car Seat Headrest singles chronology
"Martin"
(2020)		"Hollywood"
(2020)		"There Must Be More Than Blood"
(2020)
Music video
"Hollywood" on YouTube

"Hollywood" is a song by American indie rock band Car Seat Headrest. It was released on April 16, 2020, through Matador Records, as the third single from their twelfth studio album, Making a Door Less Open (2020). The song was written and produced by bandleader Will Toledo and drummer Andrew Katz. [3]

Contents

Composition and lyrics

The song had been described by Spin as Car Seat Headrest's "aim to make a big leap into alternative rock". The staff further described the song to feature "familiar heavy riffs", "a big hook" and "heavy grooves". [1] Toledo commented that the song was "about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people and doing terrible things to maintain their fantasy". [4] In Pitchfork's review of the associated album, critic Ian Cohen described the lyrics as "Eephus pitch" and called it "something that destabilizes through counter-intuitive simplicity". [5]

Critical reception

Writing for Pitchfork, Ian Cohen compared the song as Toledo's "version of Weezer's 'Beverly Hills'" and described the concept as "catchy" and "banal". [5] Upon reviewing the associated album, Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone called the track as one of the most "divisive". [6] Writing for The Observer , Emily Mackay wrote that the song is "pleasingly punchy, but brought down by facile lyrics". [2]

In a less positive review, Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the track as Making a Door Less Open's "dead thud". Petridis stated: "a conflation of guitar and raw-throated rapping in which the spirit of 1 Trait Danger seems rather too evident, self-consciously wacky shrieked vocals and all." [7]

Music video

The release of the track was accompanied by an animated music video. It was directed by Sabrina Nichols. [8] In the animated music video, Toledo appears as his alter ego, Trait, wearing a gas mask, as he takes a journey through Hollywood. [9] [10]

Personnel

Credits adapted from Bandcamp. [11]

Charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
US Adult Alternative Songs ( Billboard ) [12] 31
US Alternative Airplay ( Billboard ) [13] 29
US Rock Airplay ( Billboard ) [14] 45

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References

  1. 1 2 "Car Seat Headrest Shares the Riff Heavy 'Hollywood'". Spin . April 16, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  2. 1 2 Mackay, Emily (May 3, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open review – Will Toledo in yet another guise". The Observer . Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Hollywood by Car Seat Headrest on Spotify". Spotify . April 16, 2020. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Gallagher, Alex (April 17, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest share new single 'Hollywood'". NME . Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  5. 1 2 Cohen, Ian (May 1, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  6. ↑ Blistein, Jon (May 1, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest's 'Making a Door Less Open' Follows a Forked Path to a Big Emotional Payoff". Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  7. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (April 30, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open review – cult indie star in middle of the road". The Guardian . Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  8. ↑ Minsker, Evan (April 16, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest Share New Song "Hollywood": Listen". Pitchfork. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  9. ↑ Kreps, Daniel (April 16, 2020). "Car Seat Headrest Caution Against 'Hollywood' in Animated Video". Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Car Seat Headrest unleash new track 'Hollywood'". DIY . April 16, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Making A Door Less Open, by Car Seat Headrest". Car Seat Headrest. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Car Seat Headrest Chart History (Adult Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Car Seat Headrest Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved June 1, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Car Seat Headrest Chart History (Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 11, 2020.
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