What’s The Deal With Fred again? 🎶

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This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.

So today's podcast is about Freadagan. Absolutely no shade. And when I say no shade, we are both fans of Fred again, would you agree? Yeah, I'm a fan of what's occurring. I love a music moment and a music movement.

This is what I'm saying though, Like I don't want to get into like critical territory with no fun. I'm obsessed with it. We need this kind of hysteria for more things. I want to see people enthusiastic and happy and excited in a mass way.

We just had people like mass aggressing for the.

Last two years, mass abusing, like mass ruining the vibe, and now like the tides are turning and I want to know more about it so we can replicate it in every part of our life.

That's the only anthropological exercise that we need to do is zone in on the vibe, pull it out and process it, throw it around in the blender all around our lives. Rabid Enthusiasm is in for twenty twenty three.

Que to the podcast.

Keeter Flex and fromes Flex and fromes Flexie. If there's two words that are stuck between my teeth.

They're in there. I can't get him out. It's Fred, It's again.

I always have things stuck in my teeth, and I'm constantly asking for a toothpick, toothpick, toothpick, twopick.

He needs him industrial strength philosophy.

Talk to me, Baby, Fred Again?

Is this dj? He became world famous?

Industry plant.

I believe is neo baby. His dad was Fred Fred Again? Oh gosh, shut up. Fred Again is the music industry's hottest DJ. At m He became famous through some boiler sets.

I think, I honestly aging yourself. Some boiler sets, I think.

No.

But what I'll say is Fred again.

Hysteria has taken over the world, or at least this continent. I was at well, we were both at Laneway a few weeks ago, and what do I see? I see hordes of people running to the stage for Freddie And at eight pm. When I say there were hordes, this was like the plague. And the people were antibodies trying to fight the virus.

That is to.

Call the punters of Laneway pests viruses, viruses, vermin.

You're Sicktitus. But it's the point.

The big question is what is with the hype with Fred again? Is it valid absolutely? Is it justified absolutely? Is it warranted completely? However, the timing odd very odd, Like you said, how does hysteria bubble up in the way that it's bubbling.

It is one thing to be like, oh my god, I love this track.

I've been binging it right in the same way everyone was obsessed with Flu, obsessed with Fisher, obsessed with Flex and Frims and Fred again. Damn, some's off with that alliteration. I get really like loving the song, loving the moment, but again I'm seeing tiktoks of people looking for.

Whales and trying to figure out where secret.

Shows are and doing call outs on the app being like, can anyone get me in with a free ticket, pretending to be publicists to get into shows, making fake lanyards.

Wait, what's the whale? Because I just gotta yeah with.

The whales like this seek, I don't know what the whale thing is, but there's been whale stamps and then you go where the whale stamps are and it tells you where Fred is. It's this whole thing and it's amazing. It's giving Taylor Swift dropping Easter eggs. I'm obsessed and everything makes sense on Fred's side. Fred is delivering what he should be to warrant this type of success. But I want to understand everyone's individual connection, because you're not

Oh, is there actually Easter eggs?

No, that's a term.

Oh my god, I was just thinking new weren't.

That's a lie.

As soon as that messina fucking hit my blood stream this game over, I've never been the same again of listen Fred again, I see the vision.

I watched his set at Laneway.

And there was a lot of reverbals almost like not mystical, but in transing he had I heard that he takes like the samples off his friends and off YouTube and off Ted Talks.

And I feel like you saw it or you heard it. You were there.

I saw it and I heard it, but I also heard from other people and he also said this thing while I was taking a shit in the toilet. I wasn't actually shooting at laneway. I was doing a week Okay, I did eat a hot dog wrapped in batter.

Quick caveat. I had my first one too. Why did we decide to do that on the same day? What a strange experience.

Let's just close our eyes. And then at the counter three.

When you first been into it and saw the stick, I was freaking out, like, what is this?

What is this?

Did they put anything in the hot dogs these days that was gross, severely odd?

Did you eat the whole thing?

Of course not, ah, I'm not stomaching things for fun delicious.

Back to the.

Point, back to the point.

So he's using these ted talks, He's using these little, tiny, snippy snapperies. I'm in the toilet and he goes, oh, dear or something like really funny and endearing, and I was like, I see the.

The Jennifer lawrenceification. Fread again. I see exactly what you mean.

Let me let me finish, Let me let me finish by saying this fred again, hysteria.

It's really fun.

And I think that he's very popular with the current demographic because post lockdown, we need inspiration. Believe me, I actually know where I'm going with this one with you. We need inspirational. You know, they're talking about anxiety, and like everyone.

They're talking about depression, anxiety, anxiety, the duality being I just want to be feeling free shackled.

Anyway, no fucking hell, Okay.

In these songs that he's doing, it kind of reminds me of where suns Green Basleermon nineteen ninety nine remix In the US, there was a woman who did a talk at a graduation to the class of ninety nine, and it's this whole thing about have you heard of this?

All of this advice?

Right? And then Baz Lehrman took it and put a beat under it and this like angelic music.

Bass did that, bas did that was Baz.

Yeah, my king Wow.

And he put Everybody's free underneath it, So is Everybody's free to wear sunscreen, And it gives me that's very much Fred.

Again repurposed inspirational videos with a electronic music.

I will say that reminds me of Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen by bas Lemon, because it's a beat, it's a track with with inspirational things over the top, and it's like this generation including us coming out of lockdown feeling a little bit uninspired. They want to go dance with hard outs, but they also want to acknowledge their anxiety and depression and see.

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