Sammy Virji

One Liner: EDM
Wikipedia Genre: UK garage, dubstep, bassline
Home: London

Poster Position: Top Quarter - Line 3 (!?!)
Day: Saturday
Weekend One Only.

Miller Lite at 7:15.

Thoughts:  I fully expected techno, and I was rewarded.  Some of this is deeply annoying, where he does the generic thing with a woman repeating the same inane line over and over into awful infinity.  But sometimes it is like he brought on a rapper and provided him with the background beat, and those can be kind of fun.

Born in London, he attended Newcastle University before he dropped out to pursue his music career.  In a very strange wrinkle in the fabric of the music industry, his father played trombone on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.  That is a dope ass record, and a really cool bragging right.  Although when I think of it, I cannot recall where trombone was used in that album.  According to the googs, the trombone was featured on the track "Final Hour" and was played by Fayyaz Virti [sic].  Learn something new every day!  He started making his own music on GarageBand and then Logic Pro, before getting excited about dubstep and bassline.  His sold out 2023 headlining tour was named Like a Virjin.  Good shit.

Loads of music on Spotify.  His first EP was from 2017, is called Chips N Gravy, and has a gross photo on the front of french fries with brown gravy on them.  Lots of singles, and then 2020's Spice Up My Life was his first real album.  None of the songs are especially huge.  Lots more singles after that - seems like the EDM dudes don't do albums much.  Top track, "If U Need It," was a 2023 single.  87.9 million streams.

As with many of these songs, sure.  If you wanted to go groove around and dance your ass off, this would absolutely turn any willing participant into a sweaty wiggle-machine.  Is it good?  I have no clue.  Feels like I have probably heard that exact beat many times before, but I'm sure a real EDM-head would correct me and explain how groundbreaking this one is.  "Hot in Here," which grinds a classic cheerleader chant into your brain with relentlessness, is pretty okay.

Surprisingly low streams, to be honest.  After that one up above, he has two with 35 million-ish and then a few in the 10-20 range, but very few that are massive streamers.  I am guessing he makes his coin on the road and not through streaming.  Here is 2024 single "Summertime Blues" with 36.4 million streams.

Yep, sure.  A comment on the video says "YOOO, the Key change on the second drooop!!! You almost never see that these days. Sick!!"  Totally.  Can't believe I didn't notice that.  Or care.  Y'all have fun snorting stuff and boogieing.  I will be just about anywhere else.