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The award-winning Ensemble songwriting project for young people, many with experience of homelessness or mental health issues, release Glittery Bums (feat. The Sistas, Clare McBrien, Jonnie Common), the final single with accompanying music video from debut album No Place Like It, “...an uplifting, genre-defying selection of songs” - The Skinny.
Glittery Bums, “an ode to the women of Glasgow”, is a joyous Summer pop anthem featuring a group of young women called ‘The Sistas’ who co-wrote the song with professional musicians Clare McBrien and Donna Maciocia. The track was produced and mixed by Jonnie Common.
“We wrote this song when we were all quite new to Glasgow and felt inspired by the body confident women we saw throughout the city in the Summer…we saw a lot of ladies wearing really short shorts with glitter on their bums and we were surprised because we were not used to seeing a lot of that. It was the glitter that caught our eyes.
Glittery Bums is our ode to these women of Glasgow; their confidence, their beauty and the way they stand up for themselves.” – The Sistas
lyrics
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Can you hear the drums?
Here they come
The glittery bums
In the neon sun, the neon sun
Bouncy bums with a sequin strut
Tangerine tums, tut tut tut
Neon humps in the summer sun,
Your cinnamon buns got us all undone, done, done, done
Got us all undone, done, done, done
Can you hear the drums?
Here they come
The glittery bums
In the neon sun, the neon sun
Shorty shorts with dramatic eyes
Sun is up full of pretty lies
Hair flicks in the dancing heat
No cares in the world, living proud and free, free, free, free
Livin’ proud and free, free, free, free
Can you hear the drums?
Here they come
The glittery bums
In the neon sun, the neon sun
Put your shades on
It’s a city invasion
A peacock procession
Of proud imperfection
Can you hear the drums?
Here they come
The glittery bums
In the neon sun, the neon sun
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credits
released August 13, 2021
Written by Alhan Elhan, Asma Kassim, Christianah Adejuyigbe, Clare McBrien, Donna Maciocia, Fatma Mohamed, Nuha Thalib, Shobhita Edampurath, Mawaddah
Asma Kassim: lead vocals
Mawaddah: lead vocals
Choir vocals: The Sistas (Alhan Elhan, Asma Kassim, Christianah Adejuyigbe, Clare McBrien, Donna Maciocia, Fatma Mohamed, Nuha Thalib, Mawaddah, Ramla Osman)
Donna Maciocia: backing vocals
Ross Clark – electric guitar
Jonnie Common: all other instrumentation
Recorded by Jamie Savage and Jonnie Common at Chem19 Studios and at home
Mixed by Jonnie Common
Mastered by Paul Gallagher
Ensemble is an award-winning youth songwriting project based in Glasgow, funded by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music
Initiative (YMI) and supported by Wheatley Care. Ensemble empowers young people, many with experience of homelessness or mental health issues, to write songs with the help of professional songwriters and musicians....more
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