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"When I Grow Up" was the first song that Tim Minchin wrote for Matilda, attempting to find a tone for the entire musical, drawing inspiration from his child. [1] He also drew inspiration from a childhood memory in which the adults on his grandfather's farm would fiddle with the padlock to a gate, whereas Minchin went out of his way to hurdle the gate, promising to himself to never open the ...
"When I Grow Up" is a 1998 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage. The song was released as the fourth international single to be taken from the band's multi-platinum second album Version 2.0 over the course of the following year.
"When I Grow Up" features multiple key changes, a hook based on a dissonant, functionally ambiguous chord, tempo stretches, and a long pause as a climax. [3] Music historian Charles Granata wrote that the song "best exemplifies the [band's] musical growth" through its "effective combination of odd sounds" and its "full and round" vocal ...
In 2009, the Royal Shakespeare Company announced its intent to stage a musical adaptation of the story Matilda, engaging Dennis Kelly as playwright, Tim Minchin as the composer and lyricist, Matthew Warchus as director, Chris Nightingale as orchestrator and music supervision, Rob Howell as set designer and Paul Kieve as illusionist and special effects creator. [8]
Songwriters representing all five of the compositions nominated for best original song at the 2025 Academy ... One day when I grow up, if I could get the right clothes, I could go to his Oscar ...
"When I Grow Up" is an uptempo electropop and R&B song [14] that lasts four minutes and five seconds. [8] Built around "bouncy synth lines" and a "thudding" bassline , [ 14 ] the song features a heavy use of sirens, handclaps, and pitch-shifted vocals. [ 13 ]
The debut single, "Anchorage", charted on the Billboard Hot 100, [6] but a follow-up single from the album, "When I Grow Up", did not chart. [7] Short Sharp Shocked was the first album in what Shocked later described as a "trilogy" for Mercury Records. [8] The second album in the trilogy, Captain Swing, was released in 1989.
When you’re a kid and you love music, you don’t say, ‘When I grow up, I want to be a mastering engineer.’ You usually say, ‘I want to be a musician.’ How did you get into this field?