Cheap Cuts feat. Pete Wentz

The London-based electronic duo made up of songwriter/producer Jonny Harris and songwriter, producer and composer Jack Leonard better known as Cheap Cuts, recently released the song, “Check Your Phone.” Out now, via Crush Music/Lobster, the song features Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, it is a spoken word song about our relationship with our phones.

When asked about the song, Cheap Cuts explained, “The more we developed the song, translated it into different languages and then collaborated with Pete, we realized the whole world had got itself in a big anxious hurry without realizing. It’s as if we all heard Baz Luhrmann’s Sunscreen at the end of the 90s, and decided to ignore every bit of advice in that song. To me, that’s what ‘check your phone’ is about.”

Wentz explained, “It’s funny to have everything in the world in a device at the tip of my fingers and feel like it is swallowing me whole sometimes. Without a doubt, my phone has made touring, staying in touch and finding out random actors who voiced GI Joe characters from the 80s cartoon easier. But my addiction to it is complicated – the last thing I look to at night is its hazy blur, and it is the first text message that jolts me awake in the morning. To me, this song is about the anxiety it gives me, but at the same time, the way I feel a bit lighter when I watch a video on it of raccoons walking around like people or whatever. It is messy and filled with complex, opposing perspectives that seem to contradict each other – just like us.”

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