FEATURE: Alien Tango Releases New Track And Music Video “Arthur Conan Doyle”
FEATURE: Alien Tango Releases New Track And Music Video “Arthur Conan Doyle”
TikTok’s rising star uses his humor and Wikipedia to create the time traveling song.
London based artist, Alien Tango [Alberto García], has just released a new single, based on the acclaimed English 18th century writer, “Arthur Conan Doyle.” Doyle is best known for creating works like the iconic Sherlock Holmes, as well as being a medical doctor. The song takes place if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle time traveled into the present day and met another time-traveling version of himself only to become friends. He compares using modern-day dating apps to the likes of dark magic – which anyone that’s ever used one, knows this comparison isn’t far off – while sells copies of his book out of the trunk of his car and on the street.
Tango notes his creative process saying, “’Arthur Conan Doyle’ is a magic realist pop song. I made it in a sort of stream of consciousness, some of the verses are even done with Wikipedia. I didn’t know why or how I wanted it to be at the end, I just made it. Musically, it was born while trying to make a pop song with dramatic chords, a la Britney Spears. The melody features prominently what I call the ‘evil cadence’. On New Year’s Eve, I got my laptop stolen with the music video and the song sessions in it, so I had to re-record it – though I was lucky to recover the video from a private YouTube upload.”
Alien Tango has been making headway across the social media platforms – especially that of TikTok since he joined the popular video making app earlier this year. In the comments of his first video, he let watchers know, “I’m uploading one song a day till I get a gf stay tuned.” This comment lead to him uploading a series of short ‘songs’ made for TikTok that would eventually find themselves on a 15 track collaboration record entitled, Blink Pop Vol. 1. While he may have missed a few days since that comment – Alien Tango has been one of the more consistent TikTok-ers to date.
Several outlets have championed Tango for this latest track release – one of which being Clash saying, “luxuriant synth pop with a surrealist feel”. While So Young Magazine added, “a captivating pastiche of styles and atmospheres,” and The Line of Best Fit noted the music is, “surreal.. whimsical DIY.”
