{"id":2485046,"date":"2026-07-02T15:06:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2485046"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T15:06:49","slug":"chalk-tear-apart-modern-life-on-brutal-new-single-get-fucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chalk-tear-apart-modern-life-on-brutal-new-single-get-fucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk tear apart modern life on brutal new single &#8216;Get Fucked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/chalk\">Chalk<\/a> have shared a brand-new single, \u2018Get Fucked\u2019 \u2013 you can listen to it below.<\/p>\n<p>The ferocious latest offering from the Belfast dance-punk duo and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/the-cover\/chalk-02-03-2026-3932200\">former <em>NME Cover<\/em> stars<\/a> hears vocalist Ross Cullen shun the mundanity of modern life as he heads to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Get a job\/ Go to work\/ Feels right\/ Get yourself a new apartment, seems nice\/ Au revoir, get your body on the floor\/ Get fucked\/ Get fucked\/ Get fucked<\/em>,\u201d he tells the listener over an industrial-sounding instrumental.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Cya later, cya later on the floor\/ See the light don\u2019t know what you need it for\/ Go to work\/ Get a job\/ Get fucked\/ Get divorced\/ Get yourself a new god<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cullen repeatedly barks his demands towards the end of the cut, with his delivery and the techno-inspired soundscape becoming more brutal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Get Fucked\u2019 sees Chalk team up with Irish producer Kettama.\u00a0\u201cWe met Kettama (Evan) last year at our London show at Village Underground and ended up being big fans of each other\u2019s work,\u201d the band explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Get Fucked\u2019 was going to be on our album but we didn\u2019t work it out in time and so it sat for a while until we worked on it with Evan, who gave it a new lease of life from the demo to the track.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The relentless, strobe-heavy official music video comes ahead of the single arriving on streaming platforms tomorrow (Friday July 3). Tune in here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chalk - Get Fucked (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KkdaxK8yP2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2018Get Fucked\u2019 follows on from Chalk\u2019s acclaimed debut studio album, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/chalk-crystalpunk-review-3934062\">\u2018Crystalpunk\u2019<\/a>, which was released in March. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/chalk-crystalpunk-review-3934062\"><em>NME<\/em> gave the record a glowing five-star review<\/a>, hailing it as \u201ca knockout collection of arresting dance-punk\u201d. The LP has since been named as one of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/music-features\/the-best-albums-2026-so-far-3951115\"><em>NME<\/em>\u2018s best albums of 2026 so far<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chalk are set to play a headline show at the Electric Ballroom in London on July 24. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.uk\/chalk-tickets\/artist\/5399311?irgwc=1&amp;afsrc=1&amp;utm_source=2862475-NME%20Networks%20Media%20Limited&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=2862475&amp;awtrc=&amp;camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_2862475&amp;ircid=24023&amp;clickId=2swQSERmwxycTWJ26EQuh3jtUkuQeRUbzXxF0U0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find any remaining tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/the-cover\/chalk-02-03-2026-3932200\">Speaking to <em>NME<\/em> for <em>The Cover<\/em> earlier this year<\/a>, Cullen explained: \u201cWe always felt like we belonged to a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/punk\">punk<\/a> sound and an electronic sound, but we maybe struggled to articulate what that was for ourselves. But when we came up with \u2018Crystalpunk\u2019, it felt like an umbrella term that this genre of music we were making could live under.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3932460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3932460\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3932460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chalk. Credit: Glenn Norwood for NME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Multi-instrumentalist Benedict Goddard added: \u201cWe wanted to push every aspect with the album. If there\u2019s a super industrial techno track, then it needs to go heavier; if we\u2019re gonna make more of a rock-leaning song, then let\u2019s throw our hat in the ring and put a big chorus on it. That guiding principle of pushing things further affected everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/chalk-the-cover-playlist-3932212\">Chalk created an exclusive playlist to accompany their <em>Cover<\/em> interview<\/a>, titled \u2018Songs To Walk Down The Aisle To\u2019. It featured tracks you might not typically find on a wedding playlist, by acts such <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/nine-inch-nails\">Nine Inch Nails<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/death-grips\">Death Grips<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/2hollis\">2hollis<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-rapture\">The Rapture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chalk have shared a brand-new single, \u2018Get Fucked\u2019 \u2013 you can listen to it below. The ferocious latest offering from the Belfast dance-punk duo and former NME Cover stars hears vocalist Ross Cullen shun the mundanity of modern life as he heads to the club. \u201cGet a job\/ Go to work\/ Feels right\/ Get yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2485047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21937,32469,377303,21939],"class_list":["post-2485046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-dance","tag-electronic","tag-post-punk","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chalk-tear-apart-modern-life-on-brutal-new-single-Get.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485048,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485046\/revisions\/2485048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}