{"id":349907,"date":"2026-02-22T02:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/349907\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:11:13","slug":"i-forgot-they-were-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/349907\/","title":{"rendered":"I forgot they were on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tame Impala<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Kevin Parker<\/a>\u00a0has revealed that he slept through his recent\u00a0Grammy<\/a>\u00a0win as he \u201cforgot they were even on\u201d.<\/p>\n

At the ceremony on February 1 in Los Angeles,\u00a0Tame Impala\u00a0came away with the Best Dance\/Electronic Recording prize<\/a>\u00a0for the single \u2018End Of Summer<\/a>\u2019, their second consecutive win in that category, after also winning it for \u2018Neverender<\/a>\u2019 in 2025.<\/p>\n

Those might be the only two Grammy wins of Parker\u2019s career to date, but as he revealed in a recent interview with\u00a0Mac DeMarco<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0Interview Magazine<\/a>,\u00a0he was not aware of the momentous occasion as it was happening.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019m going to be dead honest with you,\u201d Parker said. \u201cI forgot they were even on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI forgot that I was nominated as well,\u201d he continued.\u00a0\u201cYou\u00a0have to\u00a0imagine my confusion because in Australia, we wake up and then we find out about what happened in America last night, so my phone has absolutely blown up.\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0got 30 messages on my phone, all saying congratulations. None of them are saying what for. And\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0like, \u2018What for, motherfuckers?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018End Of Summer\u2019 was released in July<\/a>,\u00a0a sprawling\u00a0seven-minute tune inspired by the acid house movement\u00a0and the lead single from the fifth Tame Impala album \u2018Deadbeat<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

That record received\u00a0a three-star review from\u00a0NME<\/a> when it arrived last year, and our review noted how \u201cParker has grown outside his comfort zone, only to strike a kind of lyrical inertia that becomes detrimental to his new vocabulary of music\u201d.<\/p>\n

Parker will also be\u00a0heading to the UK and Europe for an extended run of arena shows in April and May<\/a>, including\u00a0shows in London, Manchester, Birmingham,\u00a0Glasgow\u00a0and Dublin\u00a0(find tickets here<\/a>), before\u00a0the tour then\u00a0heads to North America later in the summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Parker has also been confirmed as\u00a0joining A$AP Rocky, WILLOW, Lil Yachty and more to feature on Thundercat\u2019s first album in six years<\/a>, \u2018Distracted\u2019,\u00a0while\u00a0he was recently spotted in the studio with members of Geese, Pond and King Gizzard<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tame Impala\u2019s\u00a0Kevin Parker\u00a0has revealed that he slept through his recent\u00a0Grammy\u00a0win as he \u201cforgot they were even on\u201d. At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,11555,19,17,337,4513],"class_list":{"0":"post-349907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grammys","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-pop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116111860469761850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}