Emotional Dance Music<\/em>, due out in October \u2014 made a spunky soundtrack for this opinion.<\/p>\nGlittering synths introduce Davies on “Small Talk.” He clears his throat as he’s about to make a big proclamation. He begins to recite verses about insomnia-inducing anxiety that passing casual conversations cause him. Eyes wide with fear, he’s running the lines through his head: “Oh how I shake, oh how I cry\/ I can feel it coming my way\/ The ‘How was your day today’\/ ‘The weather outside looks so nice’\/ ‘How\u2019s the dog and how\u2019s the wife?'” Emotion is building. He’s about to fucking blow.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m sick of all the boring small talk,” he yells as the beat picks up and we’re airlifted to an ’80s rave in an abandoned warehouse. Maybe no one’s there. Maybe we’re alone and free to move about without the creeping fear of social expectations. Pink Eye Club’s proclamation rings strong: “I\u2019m sick of all the small talk\/ And I just wanna dance tonight.”<\/p>\n
In a press release, Davies shared that “Small Talk” is the first song from his forthcoming “autobiographical” album (Emotional Dance Music)<\/em>. He continued: <\/p>\n\nIt represents a time in my life when I used to connect with people on the dance floor rather than in conversation. These days things are different and my confidence has grown, but it\u2019s a reflection of a time when I couldn\u2019t just simply go up to a group of people and start a random conversation.\u00a0I feel as though I\u2019m not alone in this but music & dancing helps even the most introverted of people create genuine human connections.<\/p>\n
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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest single from Pink Eye Club, Windmill scene mainstay and disco luminary Haydn Davies, reminded me that I have an unfinished podcast I must listen to. The other day I started listening to Dr. Laurie Santos’ latest hot take on her podcast The Happiness Lab, which eloquently broke down why small talk sucks. Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2505087,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2505086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Pink-Eye-Club-Shares-New-Single-Small-Talk-Listen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505086","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=2505086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505088,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505086\/revisions\/2505088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}