![]() ![]() In the song, Morray sings over a guitar-driven beat about surviving his early life, including the streets, poverty and feuding: "Since a jit, stood tall with a kickstand / Thinking of a plan to get quick bands / Falling in deep with the quicksand / Flag out my ass, no quick brand". The song became his breakout hit, leading to him being discovered by media manager Moe Shalizi and receiving co-signs from many artists such as J. A music video for the song was uploaded onto Morray's YouTube channel in March 2020. ![]() He has described "Quicksand" as a track that truly reflects who he is, different from his older songs, and said that he wrote it after his wife encouraged him to write songs that are really about himself. Morray composed the track in January 2020. The song debuted at number 100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in February 2021, and peaked at number 65. It is the lead single from Morray's debut mixtape Street Sermons (2021). The song's music video premiered in March 2020, before it was released again on October 30, 2020, by Pick Six Records and Interscope Records. But, of course, it came home to me very clearly and crystalline when I came back to England." Quicksand" is the debut single by American rapper Morray. The idea that it was about putting Jews in concentration camps and the complete oppression of different races completely evaded my extraordinarily f-ed up nature at that particular time. My interest in them was the fact that they supposedly came to England before the war to find the Holy Grail at Glastonbury and this whole Arthurian thought was running through my mind. ![]() The irony is that I really didn’t see any political implications in my interest in Nazis. Hahahaha! That’s when I had his biography in my raincoat so the title showed. I’m always very suspicious of anybody who says they’re into Crowley because they’d better have a pretty fair handle on Greek and Latin otherwise they’re talking bullshitīrett Anderson: You mention him in ‘Quicksand’.īowie: Yes… Haha! Caught out! Well, that’s before I tried reading him. None were new to Bowie – he had touched upon Buddhism and the occult on ‘After All’ Nietzsche on ‘The Supermen’ and ‘Oh! You Pretty Things’ – but here was his most explicit exploration, with namechecks for Aleister Crowley, Heinrich Himmler, Winston Churchill, and wartime spy Juan Pujol (codenamed Garbo by the British).īowie: I didn’t get into Crowley by the way, because he uses too much Greek. The lyrics make reference to several of Bowie’s interests of the time: the occult, World War Two, Buddhism, and Nietzche’s concept of the Übermensch. His time as a cultural figurehead was to follow, but here he took a giant step forward. Bowie knew – or at least suspected – that he had “the potential of a superman”, and ‘Quicksand’ – as with ‘Changes’, ‘Life On Mars?’, and ‘The Bewlay Brothers’ – shows him pushing through beyond his previous capabilities to discover newfound powers and realise his potency as a songwriter and performer. It is delicious irony, then, that a song lamenting a lack of inspiration serves as one of Hunky Dory’s most inspired moments. The titular quicksand is the arena where his inspiration and songwriting skills might flounder and fail. The song is, at its heart, a moment of self-doubt for the 24-year-old Bowie, who fears his powers of creativity rested on unstable ground. Kooks, Queen Bitches And Andy Warhol, Ken Sharp ![]()
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