Time Moves Slow

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"Time Moves Slow"
Single by BadBadNotGood featuring Samuel T. Herring
from the album IV
ReleasedMay 17, 2016 (2016-05-17)
Genre
Length4:32
Label Innovative Leisure
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) BadBadNotGood
BadBadNotGood featuring Samuel T. Herring singles chronology
"Speaking Gently"
(2016)		"Time Moves Slow"
(2016)		"Confessions Pt. II"
(2016)

"Time Moves Slow" is a song by Canadian instrumental group BADBADNOTGOOD and American singer Samuel T. Herring, from the former's album IV . The track was released on May 17, 2016, as the second single from the album to critical and commercial acclaim.

Contents

The track received renewed attention in June 2021 when a song, "Running Away" by VANO 3000, heavily sampled the track, causing it to go viral on TikTok. It was officially released with the band on June 21, 2021.

Background and release

The band first connected with Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring in 2014 when they remixed/reinterpreted their track "Seasons (Waiting on You)". Following their collaboration, BadBadNotGood invited Herring to their Toronto studio to work on some music for their album. From these sessions, they wrote and recorded "Time Moves Slow" as well as the non-album single "I Don't Know". [1]

"Time Moves Slow" premiered live in 2015 at a Red Bull show in Los Angeles; [2] the band played the track as well as their version of "Seasons (Waiting on You)" with Herring .

The track debuted on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show on May 17, 2016, and released digitally the same day. The band announced their new album the same day. [2] The track was also released as a promotional single. The track was reviewed positively in reviews of the album. [3] [4]

Since its release, the track has been performed live infrequently. [5]

"Running Away"

"Running Away"
Single by VANO 3000 with BadBadNotGood & Samuel T. Herring
Written
ReleasedJune 21, 2021 (2021-06-21)
Unofficial: May 23, 2021 (2021-05-23) [6]
Length1:51
Label Innovative Leisure
Producer(s) VANO 3000
Track listing
  1. "Running Away"
  2. "Running Away - Vocal Remix"

In June 2021, the track "Running Away", a beat heavily incorporating a looped sample of "Times Move Slow" went viral on TikTok as part of the Adult Swim trend. The track and trend was created by musician and TikTok creator VANO 3000 in late May, in tribute to the distinct bumpers on the American late night programming block Adult Swim. [7] "Running Away" has been called nostalgic and "dream like". [8] In regard to the composition, VANO took an instrumental from the original track 'adjusted the EQ and pitch and added filters to the sample' before adding in the lyrical phrase by Samuel T. Herring. [9]

Reception and release

The trend went viral throughout June; as of June 8, 2021, the track has been used by nearly 2 billion TikTok videos; [upper-alpha 1] as of June 18, 2021, VANO had been tagged in 500,000 of these TikTok videos and heard over 2.7 billion times. [9] The trend has been lauded by content creators and subject to a number of pop culture think pieces. [7] [10] [11] BadBadNotGood did not initially comment on the use of their song, but co-signed it on June 12 by participating in the trend. [9]

As the track was an unofficial remix of copyrighted music, it was not available for purchase nor streaming and was bootlegged across many platforms. VANO worked to clear the sample throughout June. [9] An official version of "Running Away" was released by VANO 3000 by BBNG's record label Innovative Leisure on June 21, 2020; [12] BBNG and Herring are both credited.

In other media

"Time Moves Slow" was featured in a 2016 episode of NBC's The Blacklist and a 2019 episode of HBO's Barry . Notably, a cover of the song was featured in the final sequence of the 2020 video game Dreams for PlayStation 4. [13]

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.

Notes

  1. ↑ Per Forbes, the hashtag “adultswim” had 1.1 billion uses and “adultswimbump" 82.7 million.

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