{"id":7368,"date":"2013-12-02T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2016-04-10T19:48:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T23:48:40","slug":"say-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/say-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-2U0Ivkn2Ds\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"470\" height=\"262\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nScene &amp; Heard: <em>Say Something, <\/em>by indie\u00a0duo\u00a0A Great Big World performed with Christina Aguilera at the American Music Awards. The New York duo,\u00a0Chad Vaccarino manning the keyboard, and vocalist Ian Axel sat at the grand piano\u00a0accompanied by a string section at the awards.\u00a0Aguilera had been inspired by the song, reaching out to the duo and asked them to duet.<\/p>\n<p>An understated performance, simple and somber, at the event as well as in the video. <em>&#8220;Say something, I&#8217;m giving up on you&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>crescendos with an emotional climax, exposes the tender side of Christina along with\u00a0Ian&#8217;s ethereal voice.\u00a0The video is moving.\u00a0Christina\u00a0in a minimalistic black dress with a natural look completes the softer side.<\/p>\n<p>The song tells three stories. The ballad, inspired by heartbreak, struck a chord with audiences soaring to #1 on the iTunes pop and digital charts, and debut at the top of the Billboard Digital Songs chart.<\/p>\n<p>A Great Big World, Ian and long time writing partner Chad met at NYU as students.\u00a0Their album,\u00a0<em>Is There Anybody Out There<\/em>\u00a0releases in January.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene &amp; Heard: Say Something, by indie\u00a0duo\u00a0A Great Big World performed with Christina Aguilera at the American Music Awards. The New York duo,\u00a0Chad Vaccarino manning the keyboard, and vocalist Ian Axel sat at the grand piano\u00a0accompanied by a string section at the awards.\u00a0Aguilera had been inspired by the song, reaching out to the duo and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[768,25,26,21],"tags":[335,337,336,31,340,32,738,33,22,739,338,339],"class_list":["post-7368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-culture","category-music","category-new-york-city","tag-a-great-big-world","tag-american-music-awards","tag-christina-aguilera","tag-fashion-and-culture-blog","tag-is-there-anybody-out-there","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-personal-style","tag-say-something","tag-say-something-im-giving-up-on-you"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Jszn-1UQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredjdevito.com\/streetscene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}