“Borderline,” the lead single from Kevin Parker’s fourth Tame Impala album The Sluggish Rush, simply crossed a serious streaming milestone. The music has crossed one billion streams on Spotify, changing into the second Tame Impala monitor to realize the milestone; the opposite, “The Less I Know The Better” from the 2015 album Currents, has effectively over 2 billion streams. “Borderline” joins nearly 1,000 songs on your entire platform to cross the milestone.
Impressively, “Borderline” made it into the Billions Membership with out the assistance of a music video. Nonetheless, Tame Impala did carry out the monitor extensively after its debut, bringing the music to the levels of Saturday Evening Stay, The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Coachella in 2019. The monitor additionally stays a staple of their stay exhibits, being carried out throughout The Sluggish Rush Tour and within the Deadbeat Tour, which kicked off earlier this 12 months in Brooklyn.
Initially launched in 2019, “Borderline” heralded a brand new period for Parker’s musical mission. After the big success of Currents, the musician spoke about some difficulties ending his subsequent album on a particular schedule. “When I was making this one, I had to embody a bit of a Kanye West perspective on it, which is like, it’s finished when it’s finished,” he informed Uproxx on the time. “I wanted to try and use things from totally different worlds in the way that a hip-hop producer would. To be almost collage-y. Make a soundscape and build a song from there.” The ensuing music, together with “Borderline,” tapped into synthesizers and disco, with Parker naming Pharrell Williams and Supertramp as reference factors whereas recording.
Because the launch of The Sluggish Rush, Tame Impala has solely seen extra success. The fifth album from the mission, Deadbeat, was launched this previous October, featured main singles “End Of Summer,” “Dracula,” and “Loser,” and topped each the Billboard Rock and Dance charts. Tame Impala additionally contributed music to the soundtracks for Barbie, Elvis, and Minions: The Rise Of Gru.
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