Martin Garrix Confirms Release Of New Single For This Friday And We Found The Cover Art!
Martin Garrix is officially releasing a new single this Friday, August 25th. The single was first performed during his Tomorrowland set and ever since people have been absolutely dying to hear it in full. What’s more is that Reddit was able to track down the official cover art for the new single.
Fans started to know the ID as ‘Pizza’ but nobody thought that Garrix would actually go out and call it exactly that. But today we have learned that he is actually calling it just that. ‘Pizza’ is exciting as it is the first release from Garrix in awhile that is not a collaboration or featuring a vocalist. This one is just entirely Martin. Check out the cover art and announcement below.
— MARTIN GARRIX (@MartinGarrix) August 21, 2017
Festival “IDs” turning into official releases was a whole culture back then
Before a track has an official title, festival crowds usually slap on their own nickname based on whatever lyric or sound sticks out, and fans obsessively try to “ID” the track online using Shazam clips and forum threads. Garrix debuting this one at Tomorrowland and letting the internet run wild guessing at a name before actually confirming it was called “Pizza” is a pretty fun example of how much of an artist’s rollout used to get crowdsourced by the fanbase itself before labels caught on and started controlling that narrative more tightly.
A no-collab, no-vocalist single was actually a notable choice for Garrix at this point
By 2017 Garrix had built a huge chunk of his catalog around big-name features and collaborations, so a stripped-down, entirely solo instrumental single stood out. It’s a reminder that even an artist at Garrix’s level of fame occasionally needs to release something that’s just pure production, no guest vocalist or co-headlining name attached, to prove the music itself can still carry a release on its own.
“Pizza” actually turned out to be one of Garrix’s more slept-on solo cuts
Once it finally dropped, “Pizza” leaned into a punchier, more percussive future-house sound than a lot of what Garrix had been putting out around that stretch, and I’ve always thought it deserved a little more shine than it got. Naming a track after literal pizza is such a small, goofy thing, but it fits Garrix’s whole vibe, dude’s one of the biggest DJs on the planet and he’s still cool with slapping a silly nickname on a track instead of some overly serious title. It’s a good reminder that even at superstar level, dance music doesn’t always have to take itself so seriously. The Reddit sleuthing angle in this post is also just a fun snapshot of how online fan communities used to do a label’s marketing work for free, tracking down cover art before anything was officially confirmed.
