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Três novos artistas juntaram-se à celebração do 25.º aniversário da Pokémon: Vince Staples, Cyn e ZHU. Staples e Cyn contribuíram com novas músicas exclusivas para o Pokémon 25: The Red EP, lançado hoje. Disponível AQUI, o EP inclui ainda a música de Mabel "Take It Home", revelada no mês passado. Veja os visualizadores do Pokémon 25: The Red EP no YouTube AQUI.
Refletindo a longa tradição dos duplos lançamentos da série principal de videojogos da Pokémon, com ligeiras diferenças entre eles, e para homenagear os videojogos originais Pokémon Red e Pokémon Blue, o Pokémon 25: The Blue EP será lançado no final deste mês. Irá incluir remisturas das faixas do The Red EP pelo artista nomeado para um GRAMMY ZHU, que acabou de lançar o seu terceiro álbum DREAMLAND 2021 e de esgotar seis espetáculos ao vivo no Red Rocks Amphitheatre, em Colorado, EUA.
Na música atmosférica e melódica "Got ‘Em", Vince Staples enfrenta os desafios da vida de frente, inspirando-se nos Pokémon icónicos Mew e Raichu. Staples lançou recentemente o seu quarto álbum autointitulado, através das editoras Blacksmith Recordings/Motown Records. Reunindo críticas positivas da Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, NPR Music e NME, entre outras, o seu LP foi considerado o Melhor Álbum de Rap da atualidade e alcançou a 21.º posição na tabela da Billboard 200, na semana do seu lançamento. A também está atualmente a trabalhar na sua "dramédia", The Vince Staples Show, para a Netflix.
"Sempre fui fã da Pokémon, por isso é particularmente especial ter sido convidado a participar na comemoração deste 25.º aniversário", afirmou Vince Staples. "Estou ansioso por que as pessoas ouçam a "Got 'Em" e espero que os fãs se identifiquem com esta música, especialmente os que cresceram com a Pokémon como eu."
Cyn – que assinou com a editora Unsub Records de Katy Perry e contribuiu recentemente com duas músicas para a banda sonora do filme vencedor de um óscar, Promising Young Woman – oferece "Wonderful", uma música animada que celebra a amizade e a alegria de viver.
Cyn partilha, "estou muito feliz por lançar uma das minhas músicas favoritas, "Wonderful"", composta por mim para a celebração dos 25 anos da Pokémon! Esta música é especial para mim porque penso que retrata as dificuldades do crescimento e, ao mesmo tempo, realça o estado de graça e a bonita viagem até lá chegar - os ovos eclodem quando querem ou, por outras palavras, quando estão prontos. Quando escrevi esta música, o meu bebé recém-nascido estava comigo - consigo ouvir a influência de ser mãe nesta música, para mim será sempre especial ouvi-la."
"Há 25 anos, os videojogos Pokémon Red e Pokémon Blue apresentaram ao mundo a Pokémon e queríamos exaltar essa parte importante do franchise nas celebrações do nosso 25.º aniversário, no âmbito da campanha P25 Music", afirmou Colin Palmer, Vice-Presidente de Marketing da The Pokémon Company International. "Os fãs da Pokémon irão apreciar a referência aos primeiros videojogos da Pokémon com estes EPs, enquanto os fãs de música irão desfrutar das novas músicas e remisturas de artistas fantásticos nesta dupla coletânea."
O The Red EP começa com "Take It Home", uma música original da artista galardoada com um BRIT Award Mabel. A revista PAPER referiu, "dizer que fica no ouvido seria um eufemismo… "Take It Home" está repleta de batidas animadas e vibrantes." A revista People comentou que, no vídeo oficial, "a artista persegue o Jigglypuff num mundo encantado, ao estilo de país das maravilhas, repleto de roupas coloridas e coreografias de estrela pop."
As faixas do The Red EP serão disponibilizadas no futuro álbum de compilações P25 Music, que será lançado este outono pela Capitol Records como parte de uma campanha musical massiva, que decorre durante todo este ano, da The Pokémon Company International em parceria com o Universal Music Group. As remisturas de ZHU serão incluídas na versão digital do álbum. Vince Staples, Cyn e ZHU irão ocupar os seus lugares ao lado dos restantes artistas do P25, Katy Perry, Post Malone, J Balvin e Mabel.
Os fãs podem manter-se a par das últimas notícias sobre o P25 Music e outras celebrações do franchise, no website do 25.º aniversário da Pokémon em 25.pokemon.com. O Pokémon 25: The Blue EP pode ser pré-guardado em https://CapitolRecords.lnk.to/saveP25PR/.
Os fãs da Pokémon e de música em geral estão convidados a juntar-se à discussão online com @Pokemon e #Pokemon25.
Lista de faixas do Pokémon 25: The Red EP
1. Mabel – Take It Home
2. C – Wonderful
3. A – Got ‘Em
Vince Staples Créditos da fotografia: Tyree Harris
Cyn Créditos da fotografia: Jerry Maestas
ZHU Créditos da fotografia: Joey Vitalari
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Sobre a Pokémon
The Pokémon Company International, uma subsidiária da empresa The Pokémon Company no Japão, gere a propriedade fora da Ásia e é responsável pela gestão da marca, pelo licenciamento, pelo marketing, pelo Pokémon Trading Card Game, pela série animada de televisão, pelo entretenimento doméstico e pelo website oficial da Pokémon. Pokémon foi lançado no Japão em 1996 e constitui hoje uma das propriedades de entretenimento para crianças mais populares em todo o mundo. Para mais informações, visite www.pokemon.pt.
About Mabel
In the last year or so alone, Mabel has won the BRIT Award for Best Female Solo Artist, surpassed four billion streams and 2.2 million adjusted album sales for first album, High Expectations – the biggest-selling debut by a British woman in 2019 – and added to her formidable catalogue of smash hits like “Don’t Call Me Up” with three more top 10s under lockdown. Futuristic, fearless and feel-good, her first single of 2021, “Let Them Know,” marked the unmistakable arrival of a new era and mindset for Mabel. If High Expectations documented a coming-of-age (and the fact you may actually spend a lifetime figuring it all out), her new material finds Mabel emboldened with experience. Her girl-next-door candor remains, but in embracing dance music’s generational ethos of expression, liberation and inclusion, you witness a woman moving firmly to her own beat. The Guardian hailed Mabel as a “warrior queen” and Vogue praised her as “unflinchingly honest, earnestly positive, and resolutely single-minded.”
About Cyn
It's not every day that the girl next door winds up being signed by one of the world's biggest pop stars, but that once-in-a-lifetime scenario is exactly what happened when Cyn, who was born and raised in Detroit, met Katy Perry during a chance encounter. Katy fell head over heels for her voice, and quickly signed her to Unsub Records and publishing. Cyn now lives in Los Angeles, where she has devoted herself to writing over 400 songs, released a 7-song EP titled Mood Swing and has had original songs featured on award winning major motion picture soundtracks, including her songs “Uh Oh” and “Drinks” for the Oscar-winning film, Promising Young Woman. “Drinks” broke at Top 40 radio this past summer and has amassed over 20 million global streams to date. Billie Eilish added it to her Apple Music radio show, “me & dad radio,” and Rolling Stone hailed it as a “Song You Need To Know.” “Drinks” is also featured on the soundtrack for the new HBO Max series “Gossip Girl.” Cyn is the recipient of the 2020 ASCAP Songwriters Hall Of Fame scholarship and has big plans for 2021.
About Vince Staples
Ever since Vince Staples introduced himself to the hip-hop world in 2014, he’s been known as a documentarian, filing first-person accounts of his teenage and 20-something days in Long Beach, California over booming beats that seesaw from edgy to spirited. Generally a private person, friends would often tell Vince that they learn new information about him through his music, encouraging him to reveal even more about himself. When he began to dig in and create his forthcoming album, the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2018 album FM!, the award-winning rhymer took that into consideration. The result is Vince Staples, a tight project entirely produced by Kenny Beats. The self-titled 10-track album delves not only into his upbringing in Long Beach, but his psyche as he learns to cope with his yesterdays and strides toward new tomorrows, picking others up along the way. This album is intentional and melodic - an expression of a Vince Staples who knows what he wants and what he has. Vince Staples is just the beginning of Vince’s busy 2021. He’s currently working on bringing his dramedy, “The Vince Staples Show,” to Netflix, two new podcasts and a graphic novel with Z2 comics.
About ZHU
ZHU is ready to move again. Most of his third album, DREAMLAND 2021, was made at home during quarantine, but as the GRAMMY-nominated musician and producer crafted the new set’s grimy techno and sweaty house tracks, he imagined the record as the score to a world starting to spin back into motion. He celebrated its release with an unprecedented sold-out, six-night run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. ZHU was honored with a Best Dance Recording nomination at the 2014 GRAMMYs for his breakout hit “Faded.” His debut album GENERATIONWHY topped Billboard's Dance/Electronic albums chart and landed on the Billboard 200, and he’s had dozens of tracks hit the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. These accolades have earned him partnerships with like-minded brands including Luminosity and Leica. He continued his productive streak in 2020 with a series of singles—including “Only” with Tinashe, “Desire” with Bob Moses, and the Kito and Jeremih collab “Follow”—and a string of live-streams for Digital Mirage, Insomniac, and Lollapalooza. But all of this success has never been the point—ZHU just wanted to head to the dancefloor and dream up better worlds. DREAMLAND 2021 basks in that impulse. He imagines everyone united under one roof raving—a party with enough energy to take over the whole world.
About Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.
About Capitol Music Group
Capitol Music Group (CMG) is comprised of Capitol Records, Blue Note Records, Astralwerks, Harvest Records and Capitol Christian Music Group, as well as Capitol Studios and Virgin Music Label and Artist Services. Capitol Music Group is based in Hollywood, California within the iconic Capitol Tower.
Artists that record for CMG labels include: The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Bee Gees, Jon Bellion, Rosanne Cash, Christine and the Queens, FLETCHER, Neil Diamond, Halsey, Don Henley, Hillsong United, Niall Horan, Lewis Capaldi, Charles Lloyd, tobyMac, Paul McCartney, NF, Norah Jones, Katy Perry, Gregory Porter, Maggie Rogers, Calum Scott, Bob Seger, Troye Sivan and Chris Tomlin. For the U.S.: Disclosure, Empire Of The Sun, and Sam Smith.
Pokémon Press Contact:
Ben Le Rougetel
The Pokémon Company International
b.lerougetel@pokemon.com
For more information on UMG RECORDING ARTISTS contact:
MacKenzie Reynolds, Capitol Music Group / MacKenzie.Reynolds@umusic.com
Michael Kutach, Element Brand Group/ michael@elementbrandgroup.com