‘Take a pop jaunt with Jason Klaire’s latest eccentrically liberated and razor-sharp single, Taking a Piece of the Pie. Klaire took what started as a silly inside joke about desserts and transfigured it into a kaleidoscopic satire on greed and the sickening wealth divide, without ever weighing the listener down in rhetoric. Instead, the message cuts through in a fever dream of psychedelic wit, laced with sticky-sweet hooks and melodies that are silly in all the right places.‘
Taking A Piece Of The Pie (edit)
‘What Klaire serves up here is less of a pie and more of a layered trifle of sound. Playful vocal exchanges between the thief, the owner, and the officer fold into a confection of buoyant basslines, driven percussion, and candy-coated polyphony that shimmers with parable and parody alike. The song keeps you grinning at its cheekiness while subtly nudging you to consider how the pie of the world’s wealth keeps getting sliced.’
Taking A Piece Of The Pie (full version)
‘Taking a Piece of the Pie’ is a pop release fuelled by punchy instrumentation, excellent musicianship and charismatic vocal performances. We’re already excited for what’s next. – FVMusicBlog
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
‘Clever and engaging, this song blends witty, expressive vocals with a polished, dynamic production. The melodies are catchy, and the arrangement keeps the energy moving, creating a track that’s both memorable and fun to listen to.’ – Breaking Sound Radio
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!