Alex Spencer - Do What I Wanna
Produced and Mixed by Adam French
2023 Alex Spencer in association with Modern Sky UK - Released 29/8/23
Video - Home made footage/produced/edited by Alex Spencer
Press Release - Do What I Wanna
Rebellion and power fuel the latest festival stage-ready firecracker single from Alex Spencer
• Manchester’s self-starting, 16-year-old hot tip finds the road of possibility stretching ahead of him after leaving school and journeying into Europe before returning home for his first major live date
•Putting them into anthem, Spencer looks at all sides for solutions to young generation’s sense of injustice on new, spiky summer single
From child busking sensation to schoolboy success and on to the bright dawn of adulthood, Manchester’s sensational singing and songwriting phenomenon, Alex Spencer continues to live out his growth in full view of his fans as he releases his latest single, Do What I Wanna – OUT 29 August on Modern Sky UK. Singing out ‘here’s to the rise of the young’ on the latest, even more confident release from the 16-year-old artist, the future Spencer wants is mapped out against a jumping, hot indie soundtrack full of bluesy riffs and piano-backed beats.
Signing off on his school days at the same time as releasing his last single, One Way Ticket, earlier this summer, Spencer’s sense of untameable adventure has seen him quickly jet off into the inner reaches of Italy to officially kick start his first months of new found freedom. That intrepid journey didn’t get underway until he’d played a raucous, intimate SOLD OUT show at Manchester’s 33 Oldham Street, a stepping stone on the route to Spencer’s exciting live plans for the rest of 2024.
Looking ahead and building on the word-of-mouth buzz that’s helped him rise to contender status in such a short period of time, he will play his home city’s ornate Deaf Institute venue on Fri 24 November 2023 with the last remaining tickets available at www.seetickets.com
With Do What I Wanna further heating up anticipation around the young artist’s ascension to even bigger stages, the incendiary song is result of his studio sessions with artist, songwriter and producer, Adam French. Adding another fist-in-the-air anthem to the high-energy live set, the single sees Spencer in observational mood. Not content to sing about love or living for the weekend, he looks wider, sees the world turning on a bent axis and makes the case for change.
Alex explains: “Do what I wanna is almost a protest song, about how a new generation is slowly waking up to see the obvious inequality and corruption in this world. Big corporations to governments are taking advantage of us for their own greed. I’m hoping we’re gonna stand up and not let them take advantage of us anymore.”
Following his signing with Modern Sky (original home of The Lathums, Crawlers, Jamie Webster and Brooke Combe) at the turn of the year, Alex waited until spring to release his tidal wave, debut single, A Night To Waste. The resultant media circus saw him broadcast to the world via BBC News’ Tik Tok and become the first musician to perform on Sky Sports’ Good Morning Sports Fans show. With live sessions and playlisting with influential Manchester radio station, XS Manchester and airplay with Radio X and BBC 6 Music, his impact has been instant and the ripple effect is set to grow yet wider as further live dates and releases loom in the near distance.
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ALEX SPENCER-LYRICS
DO WHAT I WANNA
Wish the dust would settle down,
I been waiting all summer
Dream of one day getting out
So I can do what I wanna
The top are messed up, ruthless
Hold us down at the bottom
So call me reckless, stupid,
But I’m a do what I wanna
Here’s to the rise of the young,
We’re what the future becomes.
I’m a do what I wanna I’m a do what I wanna
Wish we’d all just wake up,
Break free and recover
See there's one rule for us
And there's one for the others
You know the rich don’t play fair
They dance as we suffer
Shadow puppets, silhouettes
True light gets smothered
Here’s to the rise of the young,
We’re what the future becomes
I'm a do what I wanna I’m a do what I wanna I’m a do what I wanna I’m a do what I wanna
Your silver spoons won't shut us down
We're not just faces in the crowd
We’ll bring this thing to light, surround you
From Manchester to Hollywood
Handouts, favours, stolen goods
You can chase whatever lie you choose
So you do you
But I’m the rise of the young,
And what the future becomes
I’m a do what I wanna, I'm a do what I wanna, I'm a do what I wanna, I’m a do what I wanna
