Out for 2023: “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?”
In for 2024: “How often do you think about The Last Dinner Party?”
The answer to the latter question is one we began last year, as the enchanting English glam comet dominated our 2023 with a string of stirring singles that gave us hope for the future, most notably the stunning inaugural entry “Nothing Matters.” Now the collective with last year’s SOTY are readying this year’s AOTY, as the group’s debut album Prelude To Ecstasy is poised to arrive February 2 via Island Records.
As a primer, The Last Dinner Party today (January 4) offer up a playful theatrical romp titled “Caesar on a TV Screen.” It’s a spellbinding Shakespearean-flavored tune baked in fun that proves vocalist Abigail Morris and her band of merry musical misfits can simply do no wrong.
“‘Caesar on a TV Screen’ is a vessel for the expression of power through the character of a despotic ruler,” the band declares. “It makes fun of and lays bare the kind of masculine fragility and subsequent rage that comes from a place of deep insecurity and a need to be loved.”
Here, here.
As Morris so eloquently and assertively offers up in the track’s chorus: “Just for a second, I can be one of the greats / I’ll be Caesar on a TV screen, champion of my fate / No one can tell me to stop, I’ll have everything I want / Anyone, and everyone will like me then.”
Oh, how we already do. Watch the freshly-dropped video below.