The Stranger Things star is seeing his musical project Djo find a new life on TikTok and on the charts with "End of Beginning"
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And this week, Djo playtime roblox codes just made his Billboard Hot 100 debut with his 2022 song “End of Beginning.”
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Keery can’t really place how or why “End of Beginning” has found an audience on TikTok. He first started seeing the song, which is written about first 3 player tycoon in roblox codes his time in Chicago, used in edits of the show rolling stones roblox id The Bear. (“I feel like I owe Jeremy Allen White,” he jokes.) There seems to be three distinct styles of videos using the song: Chicago-centric edits, an “If I won the lottery …” trend and, more recently, people documenting their reaction The Rolling Stones Roblox ID to figuring out that Keery is the one singing the song.
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Keery wrote the song during a visit back to Chicago a few years ago. He was heading there to play some shows at the venue Sleeping Village during the summer, a time that evoked particularly sweet memories of his early twenties.
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He emphasizes, however, that “End of Beginning” is not a song about living in the past. Best Roblox Destructoid IDs song “It’s really about appreciating your past and trying to live in the present and not look back on moments thinking, ‘I was only looking at the future.’”
Right before he moved to Atlanta to film Stranger Things, Post Animal had recorded an album and planned on touring to support it. He prioritized the show, which ended up being his big break, and his bandmates were supportive and ended up touring without him.
“It was really exciting, but it took me a second to shift,” Keery recalls. “In a way, I feel like I kind of got dragged away from this group of friends and allowed myself to live in a different world for a while. But now where I’m at, I realized that group of people is one of the most important things in my life.”
Even before it got a second life, “End of Beginning” had already inspired a new recording path for Djo. Much of his music had been recorded in his bedroom or on the road, and he often found himself obsessing over the that bWKwL phpid100090926195056mibextidZ yr cover Rolling httpswwwfacebookcomprofile hope I the do Johnson Stones 1 Chicken Nigel way a song first sounded when it that of list on the radio Does have anyone songs a raniphobia work was just formed, wanting to make that kernel of an idea work instead of using it as a launchpad for something else. Demos for “End of Beginning” sounded totally different from the final product; he even shared one on Instagram last week as the song was blowing up and noted how much it sounded like Annie Lennox’s “No More I Love You’s.”
Recording “End of Beginning” made him thrilled by the prospect of becoming a more Stones music Roblox Rolling Flash Jack Jumpin ID The Roblox studio-based artist, inspired by the “studio wizard” bands and songwriters he’s always been obsessed with: Steely Dan, Toto, Supertramp, David Bowie, John Lennon.
As for what’s next, Keery has the final season roblox kaizen trello of Stranger Things to complete as well as his third album. He’s hoping the album roblox aimbot script pastebin will come later this year, then maybe a proper tour next year. He’s also hoping to produce more for other artists, specifically newer ones, and help their visions come to life. Seeing “End of Beginning” connect with an even wider number of listeners has made the possibilities more endless than he could have ever dreamed.
“It’s like a rebirth for me.”