Following the release of their instant classic I Like Taylor Swift last summer, which garnered love & support from Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, BBC 6Music’s Tom Robinson, Radio X’s John Kennedy, BBC London’s Gary Crowley and made the Music Week Playlist alongside Nicki Minaj, Miles Kane & Lump, and then Coach Hop’s murder-based Christmas Single, By Christmas, Coach Hop are back with a sexy new video release, La Petite Mort. Produced by Dirigo Entertainment, starring Charlie Laurence and PLAYBOY model and scream queen actress Cody Renee Cameron. La Petite Mort is really a love song at heart, inspired by a beautiful and truly brilliant
painter. Artistically stunning and bold, she is one of the cbest living artists in her genre. World renowned and respected, lauded and applauded, and all before the age of 40.
But to Charlie Laurence she confided that whenever she would ask a
lover what they liked about her, they would always give the same deceptively trite answer: “Your brilliance,” or “Your mind” or some such
apparent disappointment. Sometimes a girl just wants to know that she’s desired physically. And Charlie did love his beautiful master artist, for sure. And what the lady wants, the lady gets. La Petite Mort is
the result. It’s an undeniably funny, sexually charged love song. Audacious in its own right, many people like the cheerleaders singing the refrain:
We managed to catch up with Coach Hop (Charlie Laurence) as he talked about the latest single and more!
So how has the release of La Petite Mort gone down so far?
The reaction has been all positive, people really enjoy the video. I had a showing of it in Los Angeles and it was interesting watching a crowd of peoples’ reactions to it. Laughing, gasping, clapping. It’s different from when you watch it with one person while staring over their shoulder and saying, “What do you think?” Being a smallish solo artist, I’m never quite sure what to expect from each song release. With “I Like Taylor Swift” it was pretty big, and we won a couple FX awards and it was featured on ITV’s Sunday Brunch and radio stations all over the UK. Whereas for this song, “Dom” on YouTube said, “I like this one.” It’s good to have it out there though. Feels right. My parents in Florida thought it was great, for different reasons. My dad appreciates the wedding theme video with its focus on traditional values.
Can you tell something about the single no one else knows?
Well, for the bridge, during what I call the “cheerleader part” I needed a bunch of girls to come into the studio and do the chant. But I honestly don’t know that many girls in Nottingham, where the studio is, I live in London after all.
It was about 9:30 in the morning and I was working with the engineer when a young woman arrived to pick up his girlfriend for work. We asked them, “Hey, wanna be in this song? All ya gotta do is shout this part, won’t take long…”
Luckily the two of them said yes, and we double tracked it a few times and it came out pretty good. To show them what to sing I first belted it out in the recording room and then tuned my vocal up an octave. So really there’s three girls, and one of them is me, electronically fixed. But I can’t really hear it in there, try as I might, just sounds like regular girls to me.
What’s next for you after this?
We have a big show in London June 14th at the Camden Assembly. But before then I have another couple of music videos I’m going to be releasing. “I Love You, Goodbye” and “Every Part.” Also I’m always trying to write new stuff. I’m doing a collab with Consequence of Sound releasing a kind of rant song about insurance companies and the American healthcare system, but the song is better than it sounds. It’s got a real Beach Boys vibe. The collab is part of a larger ensemble program they’re going to be releasing as a podcast. Gotta keep moving ya know, shuckin’ and jivin’.
If you could work with any band on a new song, who would it be and why?
First band that popped into my head, Tenacious D. Why? They’re really good, funny, and fun. And, like many good musicians they go a little bit out on a limb with every song. Lyrically, musically, usually something. I mean when they bust out that “fliggugiggy gloogi gloo glee” bit in their song “Tribute” it always cracks me up. Like where did that come from?! I dunno, but I like it.
Plus they seem like cool pepole to hang out with. And you gotta hang for a while when you’re making a song.
Bonus Answer: I think it’d be really cool to work with Arcade Fire because I love them and want to see what their process is like.
What do you all get up to in your spare time when not working on music?
I assume you mean just me saying “you all” in the North American Southern, “y’all” sense.
Because Coach Hop is sort of just my [Charlie Laurence‘s] thing. It’s not really a band, although I do have a band that does live shows with me, and they’re great. I’d love to give a really cool rock and roll answer like, I spend a lot of my time ass-slapping rough looking roadies with uncooked, whole Alaskan salmon. Or maybe throwing windows through TV’s. But I’m a bit intimidated by the roadie at the local music place. He rides a motorcycle. And TV’s are too expensive to just waste like that. I mean who do you think I am?
I drink a lot of coffee and have some good thinks. I like to play the piano to my patient girlfriend, and I like cooking. I’m into videoography as well, though it’s mostly for myself.
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