music news Olly Alexander drops 'Years & Years' & represents UK at Eurovision

[teenager]

There was no need to snatch the albums they had as a band to make it seem like it was solo  whether it was okay’d but the previous band or not, he isn’t solely responsible for their previous output 

 

Should’ve just used this to launch his solo career, given his nods and blessings to his past and leave it at that - changing all the videos and tracks is

 

that pic really isn’t for me either, I was a huge Y&Y fan but just to echo what everyone has previously said the quality really deteriorated since he was solo 

[computer.boy]

Not a big fan of this change, his career kinda fell off after Emre and Mickey left the project.

 

Both Communion / Palo Santo should've stayed as a Y&Y release and move Night Call to Olly's solo page, imo.

[hallucinate]

HATE that it’s going to mess up his/their last fm profile & my scrobbles 

[State of Grace.]

This is so messy & ugly. Could have just left Y&Y's page and started fresh then maybe add Olly's name as a second artist to all tracks....whatever.

 

Communion and (most of) Palo Santo were really great so it's kinda sad to see this happening.

Edited December 17, 2023 by State of Grace.

[reymiu]

3 hours ago, BryceG said:

His label can and it’s not like the former members aren’t earning from it.

 

Big budget album campaign that kicks off with Eurovision.

 

He wanted to just be Olly Alexander, label wanted Olly Alexander (Years & Years), so they’re doing both. Older songs have what the label want, new material is just Olly Alexander, and it’s a renewed 360 deal with his management.

Honestly i think giving him big budget is a risky business move

 

His music has declined in quality without the other 2 members. It's like Black Eyed Peas losing their magic without Fergie.

 

Doing this rebranding (Olly Alexander - Years & Years) actually alienates / annoys the band's remaining fans even more 

 

UK seems to be in favor of urban music rather than dance music atm (even Dua's new dance single only performs decently but not a smash) So Olly's genre is not exactly guaranteed to smash

 

As a matter of fact if they want to have a big comeback, it's time they reunite the band and recapture that 1st album instead of going solo IMO. If I were the label I would only give him big budget if they have the band reuniting

 

Do you have any tea on other members? Are Olly & them still in touch?

Edited December 17, 2023 by reymiu

[Bloodflowers.]

Communion is a masterpiece album, everything that came after their remix Tove Lo song in 2016 wasn't not up on pair anymore

[Zeferino]

Mess 

I remember olly saying Y&Y (the three of them) would, like, release 4 albums until he’d want something of his own 

[Fitzswiftie]

19 minutes ago, reymiu said:

 

 

UK seems to be in favor of urban music rather than dance music atm (even Dua's new dance single only performs decently but not a smash) So Olly's genre is not exactly guaranteed to smash

 

Even all of the dance music smashes this year have been purposefully throwbacks like trance (Miracle, Desire, 0800 Heaven), hardcore (Good Love), eurodance (It Goes Like, Little Things, Rush) or directly lifted from black genres like drum and bass (Messy in Heaven, Dancing Is Healing, Disconnect, Chase & Staus) and amapiano (Adore U, Water).
 

The only dance hits that use modern sounds recently are both slapp house (10:35, Padam Padam) from legends of the genre.

[BlackJesus]

He should have left the old stuff on the Y&Y page and released new stuff on his own

[campelo]

Should have done that a long time ago 

[Kimi]

i hope he flops for this

[Polgg48]

trash

[UNNAMI]

first of all - **** him, this will screw my last.fm stats, good I am no longer listening to him

 

second of all - first albums with band should be still under Y&Y, night call the only album can be renamed like this. he is douche for doing that and this is very wrong

[UNNAMI]

also I he would go with song like TIES he would be good, but there would probably some gay anthem that will send him to places 22-25

 

[reymiu]

1 hour ago, Fitzswiftie said:

Even all of the dance music smashes this year have been purposefully throwbacks like trance (Miracle, Desire, 0800 Heaven), hardcore (Good Love), eurodance (It Goes Like, Little Things, Rush) or directly lifted from black genres like drum and bass (Messy in Heaven, Dancing Is Healing, Disconnect, Chase & Staus) and amapiano (Adore U, Water).
 

The only dance hits that use modern sounds recently are both slapp house (10:35, Padam Padam) from legends of the genre.

I'm not from UK but when I see that Sprinter was no.1 for what, 7 or 8 weeks - it's obvious that UK's music taste is slowly moving away from dance

 

And now we see that urban-inspired (Tate McRae's Greedy) or afrobeats (Tyla's Water) are smashing harder than Dua's Houdini (arguably the biggest dance act from UK the past few years). The change is even more evident tbh.

[Polgg48]

23 minutes ago, reymiu said:

I'm not from UK but when I see that Sprinter was no.1 for what, 7 or 8 weeks - it's obvious that UK's music taste is slowly moving away from dance

 

[XtinaStripped]

Used to be a fan but since the last album I literally can’t stand him now. He gets given so many chances in his career for such moderate success.

[Schami66]

9 hours ago, BANKS said:

kinda irrelevant, but how famous is Olly and Y&Y in Europe and the UK (scale from 1 to 10)? i live in the US, so i can’t quite gauge. 

2 or 3

[BryceG]

4 hours ago, reymiu said:

If I were the label I would only give him big budget if they have the band reuniting

They’re pretty high on the single, and because it’s the lead single for his album, it’s getting a big commercial push you wouldn’t normally get. 

[BryceG]

2 hours ago, Polgg48 said:

 

Not sure this person is making much sense. Dance music is still pretty huge. Dua Lipa isn’t doing as well because of her particular style, not because of the genre being in decline. 

[BANKS]

4 hours ago, Schami66 said:

2 or 3

[Pendulum]

@Communion this is the time to ask if your username is referencing the Years and Years album 

[Mr.X]

We're still boycotting Eurovision for including Israel yet again though, so Olly can go rot

[original_lifeline]

1 hour ago, Mr.X said:

We're still boycotting Eurovision for including Israel yet again though, so Olly can go rot

who are 'we'?

[campelo]

The group ended because they outgrew musically and I blame Emre. Mikey is still pretty much involved in the music (instrumentalist wise)