Hang It Up

Album: Sounds From Nowheresville (2011)
Charted: 124
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  • How's this for indie cred: After The Ting Tings had a surprise hit in 2008 with "That's Not My Name" from their debut album, We Started Nothing, they did loads of touring and then went to Germany to work on their next album. The tracks sounded great, with lots of hit potential, so their record label, Columbia, was excited. That left The Ting Tings concerned, so they binned the album and went in another direction.

    "It was part of our journey and part of our decision to never make the same album twice," Jules De Martino of the duo told Songfacts.

    "Hang It Up," released as the first single from that reworked album, Sounds From Nowheresville, was made available on December 27, 2011. The song reflects this musical journey and their bold decision to start over. As Katie White sings:

    I wanna write about setting something free
    All the changes drives us back to see
    And this is all about starting out again
    Same, or same, or never same


    Not surprisingly, Sounds From Nowheresville was their last album on Columbia Records. They released their music independently from that point forward.
  • The duo decided to title the album Sounds From Nowheresville to reflect how the music was conceived. "We spent so long on the road - recording music and touring - that the whole musical element of the album came from everywhere and nowhere," Ting Ting Jules de Martino explained to Spin magazine.
  • The self-shot music video was made on De Martino's iPhone in a dusty skateboarding bowl in Alicante, Spain. Ting Tings got a lot of support from Apple, which used their song "Shut Up and Let Me Go" in a 2008 commercial.

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