I hope I get to continue making more music like this.” “It was a stressful, nerve-wracking, joyful, rewarding experience. “When a session is structured in this way, it doesn’t leave much room for error, but luckily the musicians were incredible, and everything turned out better than I could have imagined,” says Cody. That has earned Cody the luxury to choose his own creative path, and the result is The Symphony Sessions, a six-song album that includes his patented live orchestral touch, including fully arranged covers of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” and Ben Rector’s “Sailboat,” a song from his tour partner’s 2013 album The Walking In-Between, which served as a joined encore on their tour dates, with Fry on piano, Rector on guitar.Īll the songs were recorded live in a single day, including several of the lead vocals, with a 60-piece orchestra, including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. Unfortunately, Fry only received a check from TikTok for a grand total of $150 so far for the video usage, but that activity spurred his four-year-old Flying album to garner upwards of 50 million streams and counting. Going down the internet rabbit hole, he discovered some comments on his YouTube videos that led him to TikTok, where “I Hear a Symphony” had been adopted, first by a K-Pop fan community, then by anime aficionados, who used the song in their video montages – more than 45,000 of them, representing millions of streams. It was there he began noticing unusual activity on “I Hear a Symphony,” the 14th and final track on his 2017 album Flying, recorded with a full orchestra, its streams climbing incrementally, eventually hitting a peak of 400,000 streams per day on Spotify alone.įry is a singer-songwriter-composer-arranger with five albums under his belt, starting with his 2012 debut, audio:cinema – a perfect description of the idiosyncratic, wide-screen, romantic movie-score approach he takes on “I Hear a Symphony” and “Photograph” (from Pictures of Mountains). i'm the new member.When his schedule of dates with fellow musician Ben Rector on the well-named Old Friends Acoustic Tour, was cancelled after just four shows due to the pandemic, Cody Fry retreated to his Nashville home, took the occasional work-for-hire production job, finished up his album Pictures of Mountains (which came out earlier this year) and monitored his Spotify streams. "hi!" the other chirped, voice cheery and excited, "i'm kim taehyung, but you can call me taetae. his smile formed a box and he was very small, but that didn't mean he wasn't handsome.īecause jungkook wouldn't be panicking that much if he wasn't. However, he was certainly not expecting a boy- cheeks puffed up just as much as his jacket, holding a few bags. usually it would be the mailman or the old lady next door giving them some food since she knew how hard these boys have been working. "i'll get it," jungkook said, standing up and running over to the front door, careful not to slip on the wooden floor since he wore socks. i can't stand being the most beautiful one." he said, making the others laugh a little before their doorbell rang. he's gonna be a visual along with seokjin hyung, i think." namjoon mumbled, nearly inhaling the food he's eating, something the other members noticed since their first meal together. He sat down across from yoongi, but noticed the extra plate. just then, the sunshine came in with wet hair and a towel wrapped around his neck. Yoongi grunted in response, cheeks puffed with food. he should be here in a few minutes, i heard they were going to finalize some papers before coming over," namjoon said.Ī puffy-eyed yoongi slowly made his way into the kitchen, plopping down the other seat next to jungkook and digging into the food. i saw him yesterday wearing a puffy red jacket in the waiting room. "there's a new member moving in with us today. Jin filled their glasses with water while shaking his head. namjoon came in, greeting everyone good morning and sitting next to the maknae. "is bang pd eating with us today, hyung?" he asked, sitting down and helping himself with rice. it was normal for jin to be preparing breakfast but he noticed that there was one extra plate on the table. Scratching his head, he walked downstairs and saw seokjin placing eggs in a bowl. he moved to seoul a few months ago, along with his other band members, and he's slowly but surely adjusting to the new environment- though he hasn't opened up that much to others. Jungkook woke up to the smell of eggs frying from the dorm's kitchen. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image. Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines.
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