Release date:
8th August
Taking A Piece Of The Pie is a unique, up-beat, distinctive mosaic of musical delight. Less of a pie and more of a musical trifle filled with driving drums, bouncy bass, vibrant vibes, perfect percussion, parody, wit, argument, prejudice, a four-part melodic counterpoint and lots of pies! Just your average song really 🙂
‘Pie’ tells the story of a stolen piece of pie. During the song we hear from the arresting police officer, the thief and the owner of the pie.
With it’s bouncy upbeat feel; playful melodies; cheeky backing vocals; and teasing, conversational lyrics, Taking A Piece Of The Pie’s one intention is to put a smile on your face – unless you are a greedy pie lover with a massive pie.
Of course beneath the crusty surface you can interpret ‘Pie’ as being full of euphamism and metaphor making an angry statement on the sickening wealth divide in the world.
Personally I prefer to think it is purely about big fat juicy pies! Which is actually what Jason Klaire originally intended.
‘Lyrically, I started writing Taking A Piece Of The Pie as nothing more than a silly song about pies to make my wife laugh. We have a thing where we call all desserts, pies. And for some reason they crop up a lot and many pie jokes ensue!
Of course as I got going with the lyrics the obvious implications and metaphor revealed themselves. Once I became aware of the underlying narrative I was careful not to force it along those lines because that can result in really pretentious, crap lyrics. I just pushed it to the back of my mind and carried on as I started. The wealth pie metaphor was doing a fine job of working itself into the lyrics without any help from me!’ – Jason Klaire
As with all of Jason Klaire’s songs to date, there is an accompanying video to help tell the story of the song.
The video for ‘Pie’ is in cartoon form. Klaire originally wanted to hire a real courtroom put a piano in the middle of it, hire lots of extras and actors to play lawyers, judges, police, jurers etc. One of his many other ideas involved pretending to play the vibraphone solo by hitting the jurors on the head with gavels (plastic ones of course!).
However as usual Klaire could not afford to bring his ideas to life 🙁 So he settled for filming himself in the main roles and put courtroom images in the background. To convey the playful nature of the song he then turned the whole thing into a cartoon!