The scene with the baby and the instruments also inspired the Evolver album cover art. The video switches back and forth between two scenes: computer-generated imagery of a group of robots dancing to a techno beat and a blank white landscape with a crawling baby and music synthesiser instruments. "Swamp Thing" was accompanied by a music video. The single was awarded with a silver record in the UK with a sale of 200,000 copies and a platinum record in Australia, after 70,000 units were sold. It also peaked at number 41 in New Zealand. Outside Europe, "Swamp Thing" reached number three in Australia as well as on the RPM Dance/Urban chart in Canada. Additionally, it was a top-20 hit in Germany and a top-50 hit in France. It also reached number-one on Music Week's Dance Singles chart. In the UK, the single peaked at number three in its fifth week on the UK Singles Chart, on 26 June. On the Eurochart Hot 100, it hit number four. It was a top-10 hit also in Austria, Belgium, Denmark (number three), Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In Europe, it soared to number two in Finland, Norway and Scotland. "Swamp Thing" was very successful on the charts across several continents. Andy Beevers from Music Week's RM Dance Update commented, "Part Two of the Grid's US travelogue takes us east from Texas to the Deep South, where they successfully set frantic banjo picking against uptempo house beats to create a high energy hoe down." He also declared it as "a mad banjo and house hybrid works surprisingly well." Another editor, James Hamilton described it as "a breezy progressive throbber." Chart performance Maria Jimenez from Music & Media remarked that "Grid storms through Europe with their banjo-ignited stormer". As if Doop wasn't bad enough we now have the Grid moving away from ambient dub and scoring their biggest hit ever with a dance track based on a banjo reel." He added that it "actually is quite inspired". Music writer and columnist James Masterton wrote, "I can detect a theme developing here over who can make the best dance record out of the silliest original idea. The banjo part was written and performed by Roger Dinsdale – a folk musician who also played the guitar and the mandolin. The only vocals are Well alright, watch out, Feel alright and I just dig it, sampled from the 1973 reggae song "Papa Do It Sweet" by Lloyd & Patsy. Send us feedback."Swamp Thing" is almost completely instrumental, consisting mainly of: drums, synthesizer sounds and banjo. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'swan song.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2022 Matador Records catalog with the Farewell Horizontal edition of their 1999 studio swan song Terror Twilight. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 July 2022 To me, 4:44 had the makings of being Hov’s swan song.īillboard Staff, Billboard, Despite the temptation to consider the concerto - finished just months before Mozart’s death - a swan song, this is a work of singular, almost problematic, affability. 2022 This was a perfect swan song for the Spider-Man trilogy, but also left the door open for more adventures in the future. 2022 The motif was big and heavy, and this might be his swan song. 1 seed was lessened, of course, by the tournament’s dominant story line: the swan song of Serena Williams. 2022 Take a look at who was in the stands for Serena’s swan song. Recent Examples on the Web There's some serious competition here from Brunson and Fanning, not to mention a lot of love for Rae's Insecure swan song.
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