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“Teletype” is the opening track to Everything Everything’s sixth studio album, Raw Data Feel. It was released on 9 March 2022, with an accompanying music video featuring machine-generated faces “singing” the song.
A teletype is a machine used to send and receive messages, with the messages printed...
[Verse 1]
So what do you want?
So many big ol' lies to choose from now
Are you listening?
Are you breathing, are you coming up with some?
And what if I sell my soul?
And what if I don't?
Ooh, it's easy to lie when nothing makes sense anymore
[Chorus]
Don't talk a lot
You don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
Don't talk a lot
You don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
[Verse 2]
Gonna take a bit
Maybe this will take a little time to heal
'Cause I'm hurting
And I don't want to go back down inside of me
And where is my sense of joy?
It's creeping back in
Yeah, I'm a liar but I'm lying next to you and you don't care
[Chorus]
Don't talk a lot
You don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
Don't talk a lot
Don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
Don't talk a lot
Don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
Don't talk a lot
Don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
[Bridge]
But it's alright
I feel alright, yeah, I feel good
I feel okay
If this is the big time
If this is the big time
Then I feel good
Ooh, you might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
[Chorus]
Don't talk a lot
You don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
Don't talk a lot
You don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause I can't tell you everything that went on
Can't tell you everything that went on
Don't talk a lot
Don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause ooh, you might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
Don't talk a lot
Don't talk a lot but I like it
'Cause ooh, you might be everything that I want
You might be everything that I want
[Outro]
Lemme figure out
Teletype was written by Jonathan Higgs & Alex Robertshaw & Jeremy Pritchard & Michael Spearman.
Teletype was produced by Tom A.D Fuller & Kaines (UK).
Everything Everything released Teletype on Wed Mar 09 2022.
First, they tweeted out a short video clip which featured a string of binary code being typed into a chat group with the band members. When translated into the Baudot code, which was used by teletypewriters, it spelled out “TELETYPE”.
The second teaser video featured lyrics from the song popping up...
In an email sent out to Everything Everything’s mailing list after the single’s release:
This is a very direct song, straight from the heart, with a fresh new openness that we felt was a good scene-setting for the record as its opening track.
Vocalist Jonathan Higgs held a livestreamed Q&A sho...
It’s EE, so you know there had to be something! Fans on Reddit quickly noticed that two error messages appear during the song:
[J]
that the victim had been decapitated when a head was discovered in a dustbin adjacent to the property.
and
[R]
That’s a real spanner into my works.
Jonathan Higgs:
It sets the tone in a really good way. But it’s not a big ‘here we are!’ kind of song, which is what we often open with. It’s more like, ‘You didn’t expect this from us.’
Alex Robertshaw:
In terms of instrumentation, it’s very fifty-fifty from electronic and the band. And that car...