Taste Test: JARA primes for Halloween with new song, ‘Don’t Drop the Funk’
The horror-pop upstart gives major “Thriller” vibes with his brand new song.
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Such horror classics as Nightmare on Elm Street and The Lost Boys have broken cold cemetery earth for not only filmmaking but the musical sub-genre of horror-pop. San Diego noise-maker JARA‘s entire aesthetic is drenched in blood-soaked mania, circling his storytelling craft with throat-sucking, full-throttle synths and unnerving, yet faint, screams. With “Don’t Drop the Funk,” just in time for Halloween’s evil haunt, he winds through an electric guitar-hinged, candlelit gothic mansion and even unearths a “Thriller” upheaval that is downright exhilarating. “Please don’t drop the funk,” he spins his vocal as gnarly cracked vinyl, even offering a Katy Perry-pointed bravado. “I like the way you groove,” he later casts his crushed heart into the somber October sky. A storm is gathering on the horizon, and JARA may be your only way of survival.
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