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"World's Smallest Violin" is a song recorded by the American pop band AJR. It was released on March 26, 2021, as the 11th track from the band's fourth studio album OK Orchestra and as a music video. [ 1 ]
The lyrics to "Bummerland" describe hitting rock bottom with the optimistic mindset of "the only way to go is up", [7] while also including quarantine anecdotes. [8] The bridge of the song features "instrumoprhing", a transition from one instrument into another produced in a way to make it morph rather than cut, with "Bummerland" using a voice, trumpet, guitar, and violin. [9]
In 2017, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!'s director Morgan Spurlock reached out to AJR via Twitter, asking the band to create the theme song for it. [2] The band watched the documentary and later stated "we were blown away after watching the film, and we immediately connected with Morgan’s passion as an underdog trying to shed light on this corrupt giant". [3] "
Perhaps that’s partly because Smith pared the group down to a quartet, the smallest band on a Cure album since 1984’s The Top, for a simpler, more direct sound.
Piano and violin were added to the song to create emotion, with extra hi-hats and bass appearing as well. The band adapted the trumpet melody for the song's verses from Ryan telling Jack "would you put your phone down" in response to watching old home movies. These movies would later be used to create the chorus lyrics that are used in the band ...
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A music video for "The Dumb Song" directed by Edoardo Ranaboldo and Austin Roa was released on April 21, 2023. [5] The video differs from the band's standard music videos by centering the focus on AJR writing and producing the song over a year-and-a-half period, starting with the writing process in a newly built studio in October 2021. [6]