“She was holding hands with Trevor/ Not the greatest feeling ever,” Kevin Parker famously sang on his Tame Impala observe “The Less I Know The Better.” A a lot better feeling is prone to accompany the information that the psych-pop hit has notched two billion streams on Spotify. It’s Tame Impala’s first tune to achieve that milestone.
“The Less I Know The Better” took virtually precisely 10 years to build up its billion streams. The tune’s father or mother album, Currents, got here out on July 17, 2015. Over the previous decade, “The Less I Know The Better”—which was launched because the album’s fourth and ultimate single in November of that yr—has emerged because the signature observe from Currents and one of many definitive songs of Tame Impala’s profession.
The tune’s reputation was boosted by its music video. Directed by the Barcelona-based artistic collective Canada, it includes a male highschool basketball participant pining for a feminine cheerleader, who as a substitute begins a relationship with the crew’s mascot, a gorilla named Trevor (a callback to the aforementioned lyric). The video, which additionally boasts gorgeous psychedelic results, has tallied 113 million views on YouTube.
One other massive enhance for the tune got here in March 2020, when listeners of Australia’s Triple J radio station voted it No. 1 within the Hottest 100 of the 2010s ballot. The large win pushed “The Less I Know The Better” into Australia’s ARIA High 50 for the primary time. In an NME retrospective about Currents printed in 2020, Parker mirrored on the tune’s eureka second: “When I was writing it, I didn’t necessarily think it was the best song, but I knew that it ought to be a smash hit. I’ve never thought that about another song since that one.”
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