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Party On My Deathbed
Get the ice ready and cool yourselves down as ‘Party On My Deathbed’ is the first Hot Milk video to feature dark and brooding Jim, with the bleach blonde replaced with dark locks. If you can keep yourselves under control we can get into the song. Ready?
We must also prepare ourselves as Hot Milk’s long-player, A Call To The Void, is coming this year. The first two singles suggest the album will be utterly EPIC.
After an enigmatic intro (more on the sample later), we have a bouncy guitar rhythm and a verse that passes between Jim and Han in trademark fashion. The chorus is on fire and there’s a neat double interlude, the former arcing into a rap section and the latter as a middle eight.
We can’t be helped, we just wanna squeeze out every morsel of this life and being a bit of a wreckhead has come hand in hand with the pursuit of fun. Can’t be stopped, don’t wanna be stopped, we’re sorry but we’re not, maybe we’re just lost. Who cares, life’s about connection n getting off the fuckin internet n losing ur mind on the streets of Manny [Manchester, UK] and finding it again on your way home.
Hannah Mee
There are ‘yaahs’, yelps, and screams in here – nudging on the edge of chaos, but actually very tidy and together. It’s a different take on the Hot Milk sound compared to ‘Horror Show’, which is a good indicator that the album has angles. Bring it.
Watch Hot Milk – ‘Party On My Deathbed’.
It Was a Cold-Blooded Premeditated Murder
You might be wondering where that sample at the start of the song comes from. It seems to be getting misattributed to Leon Haywood (because his song, ‘That Sweet Woman of Mine’, was sampled in a song called ‘Premeditated Murder’ by J. Cole). I checked my sources and this sample definitely doesn’t come from the smooth soulful Haywood.
Ladies and gentlemen,
It was a cold-blooded premeditated murder
You’ll find this quoted in quite a few tracks, and it makes for an interesting rabbit hole. The earliest reference I could find was the 2020 song, ‘Making Trouble’ by Payton Lewis. Although it sounds like a sample from a film, I can’t find any script reference. Here’s a quick rundown of the songs that use this quote, followed by some possible sources.
- Payson Lewis – Making Trouble (March 2020)
- Berried Alive – Fuego (May 2020)
- T+pazolite – Without Permission (Uncut Edition) (May 2020)
- Cotis – Reckless (July 2020)
- Ravy – Don’t You Cry (October 2021)
- Will K – Sun Is Dark (March 2022)
- ENMY – Survive (December 2022)
Also features samples from Night of the Living Dead - Hot Milk – Party On My Deathbed (May 2023)
The quote itself could have been used in a number of trials, suggestions came up for O. J. Simpson and Charles Manson, though the voice isn’t a likely match for Marcia Clark or Vincent Bugliosi (though it could perhaps be from a dramatisation). The closest match for the tone and style of the voice in the sample is Walter Cronkite, possibly reporting on President Kennedy’s assassination.
In an interview related to his 2020 single, ‘Making Trouble’, Payton Lewis said the samples in the song were all from 1940s and 1950s film clips.
What’s Han Eating
Some international fans were confused about Han shoving food into her face, thinking perhaps it might be poutain. She cleared things up by confirming they were ‘cheesy fuckin chips lad‘.
While not a million miles away, french fries, cheese curds, and gravy is no dish to offer a Brit who wants cheesy chips. It’s also not the only food on offer as Jim reclines amongst old pizza and the whole band have their take-out boxes in the lift scene (with its mirror trick).
Party On My Deathbed Lyrics
(Sample) Ladies and gentlemen it was a cold blooded premeditated murder
Brain pain again can’t remember my name (AHH)
This distance is sickness. I’m super nihilistic (AHH)
Do we exist inside an acid trip? Or is this flux born from a fantasist
My make-believe idiosyncrasy.Just wanna party on my deathbed
I’m here to live my life electric
Just wanna party on my deathbed
Yeh maybe I am just a wreckhead
but I know I don’t wanna waste it
Just wanna party on my deathbedAh ah, I’m seeping love I’m full of it
secreting blood I’ll never quit
would you wanna be me if you could see the memory that haunts this hypocrite?
born in a void, darkness feels like it’s homeDeath’s banging on the door so let’s give him a show hey hey
Nah man now don’t be shady
I’m how your God has made me
I’m just a puppet on a burning stage no health and safetyCoz if I can’t be me in this society
I’ll hallucinate my own autonomyJust wanna party on my deathbed
I’m here to live my life electric
Just wanna party on my deathbed
Yeh maybe I am just a wreckhead
but I know I don’t wanna waste it
Just wanna party on my deathbedMy make-believe idiosyncrasy
Do we exist inside an acid trip? Or is this flux born from a fantasist?
My make-believe idiosyncrasyJust wanna party on my deathbed
I’m here to live my life electric
Just wanna party on my deathbed
Yeh maybe I am just a wreckhead
but I know I don’t wanna waste it
Just wanna party on my deathbed
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