Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down-the San Francisco−based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen-released their fourth album, A Man Alive, on March 4, 2016. Following the critical success of We The Common (2013), which was largely inspired by Thao’s volunteer work with the California Coalition for Women’s Prisoners, A Man Alive is an evolution in both subject matter and sound. Thao says: “I wanted A Man Alive to be beat- and bass-driven-rather than guitar-based-extending and elaborating upon the hip-hop influences of the previous record. A Man Alive is more instrumental, more riff- and loop-centric, and has more manipulated sounds.” The Get Down Stay Down are at their best on this record, and Thao herself experimented with programming drumbeats for several tracks, although live drums are also played on every song.
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We still come here in 2024🙏🏼👜⚒️'s
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I was once in the library, working on my thesis. This song came on Spotify. I stopped what I was doing, I just listened, and cried and cried.
thanks for this <3
I can’t believe I missed this record until this year. It truly rules. The lyrics, the music, the vibe. It’s all just so rad! Thanks for making music ❤
I've been listening to your music for almost three years on repeat! I can't believe I never thought to look for music videos I love this!!
Somethnig is doing with my brain😮😮
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Glad to find this band through Dianna Agron. i love the mix in the sounds, new favorite band
Absolute perfection! Cannot say how many times I’ve watched this and still find my jaw dropping in awe of your talent. Thank you for sharing…and kudos to the multitude of participants in your vid. Can’t get any better than that…
I first listened to this song on youtube and thought it was ok. But I recently had the privilege to see Thao perform it live at Asbury Hall in Buffalo, NY. Hearing the story behind the song, seing and hearing the raw emotion made me appreciate it so much more and touched my heart to tears. The song made me think of my own mother and her struggles for freedom from Apartheid South Africa to make it to America and all the refugees and migrants risking their lives for freedom. I still think the live version was better, but now listening to the recorded version has so much more meaning. I sometimes use The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman about Hmong refugees in USA. Fadiman brings up the Vietnam war, displaced people, and refugees. Next time I teach it I will definitely use this song as an introduction and another source . Thank you Thao, from a fellow daughter of a refugee!
this is really good
You're a star! You're in the movie Shortcomings 2023 with the song Gorgeous Thing. It plays at the end of the movie. I had to research that song and it is you! It's absolutely love it! I subscribed to your youtube channel. You are a great singer. I love your music! 😊
fabulous sound and video, m'lady.
"I, who would mistreat time"
Haha! This is too cool that she's using her family in the video. I'm guessing it's her family. :)
This song brings me to my knees every time I listen.
1:41 and 2:49 are serving major "Adobe Creative Suite marketing materials" but yeah weddings are not funerals (or at least shouldn't be) and this song is, like, really good
Chilling with my bf at sb listening to npr & I died when you all came on the f’ing radio!!! Made my day <3
This song so powerfully conures a secret pain I carry for my past self, for the pain she suffered and the quiet redemption I seek for her every single day. It is the marriage of my two lives and an apology to the one of me who I should have saved from so much hell
WHY are there not more people talking about this album?? Just discovered Thao and my life will never be the same.
Enjoyed this piece when I first started listening to the album a few weeks ago. When I finally started paying attention to the lyrics, I was floored. Crushed. Heartbroken. What a beautiful tribute to the loss, sorrow, and afterlives of war. The more I listen to it, the more I'm brought to tears. Wishing for peace and healing for all whose lives have been shaken by violence.
I heard the other version on a local public funded radio station. this is very good as well!
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🌻ARE YOU MARRIED?😁Hi🌞💐💕🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
Still listening
Good
this shouldve have gotten a music video too :(
This is my favorite example of how creativity continued during lockdown.
I love it. So organic and pure. Remember CD players? This makes me wish I had one. And some of your CDs.
A criminally underdiscovered song with only 2k views
He Understands Down And Not Off In Terms Of His Right
Orazio d'Elci Invented Telling Animals Down Instead Of Off And He Was Pro
He Invented All The Words Containing -vert- With His Son Albert Camus
Albert Camus' Son Wolf Blitzer Invented The N Word
Are You Coming To Play LA At KTown ?
Beautiful
everybody do the intergenerational trauma shuffle 🕺💃
I've listened to this song like 12 times today. Ten times yesterday probably. I love it so. I've really been crushing on your whole discography this year more than any other artist, by far. Thanks for uplifting me and reminding me what masterful musicianship and literate emotional writing is in this hard world o' ours. I love you. I hope you're having the best day ever y'all. ♥️🌿🍀
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I still come here, and love it. Kept me sticking with this one.
Amazing track - how am I just hearing it now? Been digging Thao since Feet Asleep, exciting artist.
Both versions 👌
Божееееее видели бы как у меня слезятся на глазах от этого шедевра! Ппц улыбаюсь широко!))))
I saw y'all in Dallas about two months after this. The next day I myself was moving down the interstate. I did that a couple more times too. Then I even flew away too. This song brings me back to that Deep Ellum dive in 2008 when I didn't know the stings ahead of me, nor comprehend the meaning behind me. It's been a crazy 14 years.
Some of the best lyrics I''ve heard in my life
the way melody and pace of the first verse sounds like Vietnamese speaking tone by an old person :')
진짜 개쩐다..
Do You Know Lamentations ?
All My Don't Get Up Again
Amazing how this song makes me want to dance and cry at the same time.
Wow. Beautiful and powerful stuff!
Wow, Thao!