Youth Group is an Australian indie rock band based in Newtown, New South Wales. Built around the vocals of singer Toby Martin and production of Wayne Connolly, the sound of Youth Group is reminiscent of indie rock artists such as Teenage Fanclub, Pavement and Death Cab for Cutie.
members: Toby Martin
formed in: Sydney
labels: Ivy League Records, Epitaph Records
genres: indie rock
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The band's founding members were Toby Martin on rhythm guitar and vocals, Danny Lee Allen on drums, Andy Cassell on bass guitar, and Paul Murphy on lead guitar. The band's first show was in November 1997 at the Warren View Hotel in the inner Sydney suburb of Enmore. At this stage, Allen had played drums for approximately two months. Current lead guitarist, Cameron Emerson-Elliott, and bassist, Patrick Matthews, joined in 2004. Martin, the main songwriter, is the grandson of Hungarian-born Australian poet David Martin. Founding bass player Cassell retired from bass duties in 2003 to concentrate on being one of three partners in the Ivy League Records label and the Winterman & Goldstein band management agency (Youth Group's Australian record...
"Forever Young" is a song recorded by South Korean girl group Blackpink. It serves as the sub-title track from the group's first Korean extended play Square Up, released on June 15, 2018.
It was written and produced by Teddy and Future Bounce, and originally recorded in 2015. A Japanese version of the song was included in the group's first Japanese compilation album, Blackpink in Your Area (2018).
Blackpink began the recording process for "Forever Young" a year prior to their official debut in 2016. An Instagram video from November 15, 2015, resurfaced following the official release of the song, capturing the group members singing a portion of the then-unreleased track from outside of YG Entertainment's headquarters in Seoul. The person recording originally believed that it was an upcoming song by 2NE1, the agency's only girl group at the time, but expressed doubt as the voices of the singers were different from the members of the group. It was later observed in 2018 that Blackpink members Rosé and Lisa were singing their lines from the first verse.
"Forever Young" was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Chase McMullen from The 405 wrote that although "YG has been holding on to the song for years", "it hardly matters when the groove kicks in" and deemed it the best track from Square Up. Tone Glow placed it at number 11 on their list of the top 50 Korean songs of 2018, noting that "Forever Young" triumphs due to its "vibrant energy", despite its "straightforward" composition. In 2019, Rhian Daily from NME ranked it as the group's third-best track, commenting that the group embraced the moombahton genre with laser-like house beats and reggaeton rhythms to create a "vibrant and colourful foundation" for a song that celebrates youth. Conversely, Palmer Haasch from...