"The last one on the EP 'Promises'. [...] I was writing a lot with a drum kit set up. It started with this older English beat. It had this droning beat that I had and the whole song came from that. It had this super melancholy, nostalgic thing to it. I was like, “Okay, this is actually a pretty cool sound.” It was leaning to The Verve and Beach House, somewhere in there. I was like, “This is a really cool sound.” Everything built from there. Then “Shakes” was second."

— Luke Hemmings revealed that the last track of his EP, 'Boy,' was the first song he wrote, marking the beginning of his new era. He also explained a part of his creative process while writing this song.

Text source: Forbes

Ah yes, the "evil" family.

I thought it would be even more funny if it was Luke, of all people, the one who wanted to watch Bloodbath in the Black Moon of the Dragon System.

First || Next

Do y’all ever reread an old unpublished fanfic you wrote and then get invested on the storyline but get sad because you never wrote the next part of it, just me?

I'm absolutely LIVING for the increase in luke and percy parallels, but something that's been rattling around my brain since I last listened to the lightning thief musical is that without luke, percy WOULD become him. I think that it's seeing the example of the cruelty and betrayal in luke that prevented percy from following the same path. he's horrified at how luke betrayed his friends, but luke believes he's doing it for the good of the demigods, just as percy would believe he's doing it for the good of his friends. percy is regularly disloyal to the gods by being loyal to his friends. he is saved from luke's fate simply because he came second and watched it unfold before him. I'm so sorry luke but you really are doomed by the narrative. you were always going to turn against the gods, even it it wasn't you. it had to happen.

i love u tlt musical 🤭🤭

WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED

Hermes when he claimed Luke:

RIP Luke Castellan, he would’ve loved Newsies.

The second I see someone edit Luke with his reprise of Good Kid from the musical it’s gonna be all over for me

Tracy Chapman has herself said that she didn’t mind the remake because she is the sole writer of the song, and as such, she appreciates the royalties.

Luke’s version is getting a lot of airtime, but so is Tracy’s original version.

And Luke’s sincere and obvious appreciation of Chapman’s song is just icing on the cake:

When Luke Combs set out to cover Tracy Chapman's 1988 hit “Fast Car”, he did it out of complete admiration for the song

Although not every lyric makes sense being covered by a male vocalist, he decided not to deviate from the original lyrics out of respect for its original songwriter.

“You want to just be mega respectful of the original song,” Combs tells Kelleigh Bannen on Today's Country Radio. “That's why in that song ... it’s, ‘Work in the market as a checkout girl.’ I didn’t change that in my version — I really wanted to just do the original version of the song.”

Combs really wanted to bring the song as it was intended to be in presenting it to a new generation of fans who may have only been vaguely familiar with the original.

“It’s weird because you’re doing a cover of it, and you say, ‘I don’t want to make it my own, because I really just want to shine a light on the original version and bring that.’”

“Because I think there’s so many people that maybe know that song, or it would be familiar to them, but they really don’t know anything about it,” he explains. “They’ve never really listened to it.”

“When I recorded this, literally the engineer in there asked me who I wrote that song with,” Combs adds.

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Luke Hemmings: "While in London 🌧️"

Percy and the demigods from camp half-blood: *win the titan war* Luke: how does a ragtag volunteer army in need of a shower somehow defeat a titan superpower?

how i feel listening to luke’s monologue in ‘the last day of summer’

Luke being excited like a puppy