{"id":43477,"date":"2018-07-19T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=43477"},"modified":"2018-07-20T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:49:15","slug":"stream-jake-shears-gets-that-new-orleans-swag-sound-on-sad-song-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=43477","title":{"rendered":"Stream: Jake Shears Gets That New Orleans Swag Sound on &#8220;Sad Song Backwards&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=43478\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43478\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jake-shears-560x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jake-shears-560x690.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jake-shears-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jake-shears.jpg 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scissor Sisters frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jakeshears\/\"><strong>Jake Shears<\/strong><\/a> has just released his second single <strong>Sad Song Backwards<\/strong>, from\u00a0his self-titled debut solo album (out August 10).\u00a0The track is a raucous rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll song with New Orleans flair about combating heartbreak and depression through forcing yourself to act outwardly joyful in the midst of inner turmoil. &#8220;I was thinking about that country music joke: If you play a country song backwards, you\u2019d get your dog back, your wife back, your life back\u201d, says Shears via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/scissor-sisters-jake-shears-new-solo-lp-699047\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>. Check it out below, and pre-order Jake Shears&#8217; album <a href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/JakeShears_SSB\">on all digital platforms<\/a>, now!!! (above pic by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mrhudson\/\">Mr. Hudson<\/a>, below pic by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/raphaelchatelain\/\">Raphael Chatelain<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=43480\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43480\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jake-shears-1-1-560x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"569\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/470757585&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Jake Shears-\u00a0<em>Jake Shears<\/em>\u00a0tracklist<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Introduction<br \/>\n2. Good Friends<br \/>\n3. Big Bushy Mustache<br \/>\n4. Sad Song Backwards<br \/>\n5. Everything I\u2019ll Ever Need<br \/>\n6. All For What<br \/>\n7. S.O.B.<br \/>\n8. Creep City<br \/>\n9. The Bruiser<br \/>\n10. Clothes Off<br \/>\n11. Palace In The Sky<br \/>\n12. Mississippi Delta (I\u2019m Your Man)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears has just released his second single Sad Song Backwards, from\u00a0his self-titled debut solo album (out August 10).\u00a0The track is a raucous rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll song with New Orleans flair about combating heartbreak and depression through forcing yourself to act outwardly joyful in the midst of inner turmoil. &#8220;I was thinking [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[3592,639,8035,8036,8034,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43486,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43477\/revisions\/43486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}