Tones and I shocks fans by announcing she is ready to retire her worldwide hit Dance Monkey: ‘I loathe that song’
Tones and I has revealed she can’t stand her popular song Dance Monkey – the catchy single that shot her to international fame in 2019.
The ARIA Award-winning hitmaker, 28, made the surprising confession during an interview with Nova FM’s Smallzy’s Surgery on Tuesday night.
‘I loathe that song a lot of the time,’ she said of her breakthrough hit, which reached the No. 1 spot in 30 countries worldwide, including Australia.
Over it: Tones and I (pictured in February 2020) has revealed she can’t stand her popular song Dance Monkey – the catchy single that shot her to international fame in 2019
‘I don’t want to write another song like it… and a lot of the time I don’t want to sing it,’ added the musician, whose real name is Toni Watson.
Tones said she started to find Dance Monkey irritating while working in Los Angeles at the end of last year because it was all her collaborators ever wanted to talk about.
She explained several producers wanted to record similar songs when she was ready to take her career in another direction.
‘I loathe that song a lot of the time’: The ARIA Award-winning hitmaker, 28, made the surprising confession during an interview with Nova FM’s Smallzy’s Surgery on Tuesday night
Tones, whose career took off in 2017 when she was discovered busking in Byron Bay, explained she now wants to do something very different to Dance Monkey.
Later in the interview, she did concede Dance Monkey was ‘good for me’, but said she doesn’t want to spend her career ‘chasing that song’.
Not long after skyrocketing to fame, Tones said she was left feeling like she was ‘gross’ and unattractive.
Hit: Tones (centre, in the Dance Monkey video) started to find the song irritating while working in LA at the end of last year because it was all her collaborators ever wanted to talk about
As Dance Monkey soared to the top of the British and American charts, she found herself struggling with crippling self-doubt and anxiety.
Before finding fame, Tones lived an itinerant life, sleeping in her van and earning money busking on the streets of Melbourne and Byron Bay.
Tones, whose real name is Toni Watson, announced in December a busking tour that would see her visit Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, South Australia and Western Australia.
Back to her roots: Tones, whose real name is Toni Watson, announced in December a busking tour that would see her visit Victoria, Tasmania, NSW, South Australia and Western Australia
