It was the number-one trending indie rock song on SoundCloud, peaked at number four on the HypeMachine chart, and was selected by Skullcandy to lead a national ad campaign with James Harden. "Wicked Ones" became the band's most successful single thus far. "You get a load of their easygoing cool and you're reminded that there have always been kids like them keeping rock edgy, albeit under the radar, far from mainstream attention", noted Chris Payne of Billboard. On October 27, 2014, Billboard premiered Dorothy's third single "Wicked Ones", comparing their bluesy, rock sound to Black Sabbath and The White Stripes. On August 19, 2014, the band premiered its second single "Wild Fire" on IndieShuffle to great reviews. "She's such a badass.like a revved up Adele teetering on the brink of chaos", said Douridas to Chelin. "A packed house moved increasingly closer to the stage while Dorothy, whiskey in one hand and microphone in the other, mesmerized the crowd with her powerhouse vocals", noted LA Weekly 's Pamela Chelin.
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After breaking their song on LA radio, KCRW DJ and music director Chris Douridas invited Dorothy to perform during his weekly School Night series at Bardot in Hollywood on October 6, 2014. On September 12, 2014, Vogue UK debuted a video using "After Midnight" starring English model and actress Suki Waterhouse. In August 2014, the band was invited by Skullcandy to perform at select cities in Europe, including Paris, Berlin, and San Sebastián. On July 24, 2014, Huffington Post named "After Midnight" the #1 song on their 12 Songs You Need to Know This Week, calling them "dangerous", "kick-ass", and "exactly what rock needs".
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London-based fashion publication Hunger TV commented "it feels good to know raw power, sex and whiskey is back en vogue". Dorothy fielded early comparisons to The Kills, The White Stripes, Patti Smith, and Grace Slick. The song spread quickly, climbing Hype Machine's music blog charts and gaining traction locally in Los Angeles as well as overseas. The video featured vocalist Martin donning her trademark fur coat, vintage T-shirt, and red lips. The live performance video was shot at Swinghouse Studios in Hollywood by George Robertson and Aris Jerome. On June 10, 2014, the video for "After Midnight" premiered on Vice music network Noisey, dubbed as "the perfect modern rock concoction". What started as a piano ballad Dorothy had played for Jackson and Scott during one of their first meetings transformed into the band's hard-hitting debut "After Midnight". this back to AC/DC or Sabbath-just one guitar, one bass, and drums and bad-ass vocals." Martin joked, "Basically, we want to make songs that we think Beavis and Butthead would like." Jackson and Scott called on their friend Gregg Cash to play bass. "It sounded so cool when we did it, just having that fat bottom of old-school hip-hop records with metal guitars really simple riffs. "When we heard Dorothy's voice, we were like, 'Holy shit - if we put this behind some serious old-school metal riffs, we'll have something big,'" said guitarist Mark Jackson in a November 2014 interview with Rolling Stone. In early 2013, Dorothy Martin was introduced to producer and guitarist Mark Jackson and his production partner Ian Scott by her cousin Sam Wofford, who was playing guitar at the time for Jackson's band, The Remedy.
In college she met Gerry Goffin, destined to be her lover and lyricist for the next decade.
King was a musical prodigy, selling melodies to New York City publishing companies while she was still in high school. Related: 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time
King’s career as a songwriter is so expansive that it dwarfs even the monster sales figures of her classic 1971 solo juggernaut, Tapestry, which currently tops 25 million and counting. And those are just her hits – not to mention album tracks, B sides, and the odd flop. Played back to back, Carole King‘s chart entries would run about five straight hours.
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