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Crowded House’s Neil Finn on New Single ‘Oh Hi’ & Its Joyous Videos


Crowded House's new single, the perky “Oh Hi,” is an ode to the possibility in children, the band’s co-founder and leader, Neil Finn, tells Billboard.

Crowded House ‘s new single, the perky “Oh Hi,” is an ode to the possibility in children, the band’s co-founder and leader, Neil Finn, tells Billboard ’s Behind the Setlist podcast. Finn’s lyrics — they begin with “Every child is a mystic, having visions of a new dawn” — were inspired by his experience with the nonprofit organization So They Can, which provides education for thousands of children in East Africa. Because Crowded House members reside across the globe, “Oh Hi” and the rest of Gravity Stairs(out May 31 through BMG) was recorded over the last few years during sessions fit into the band’s touring schedule.

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