Deadboy Shares a New Video for "It Did Not Feel Right" Along with His Firsties and Faves

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The art of R&B vocal manipulation has many disciples but only one master. Deadboy took 2010 by storm with his astonishing re-work of Drake's "Fireworks," earning respect from Drizzy himself as well as an ocean of imitators. He's stayed ahead of the pack with a series of sparkling releases on Numbers, and now he's back "It Did Not Feel Right," a one-off for the Bristol, UK-based Crazylegs imprint.

Carrying on in the beatless vein of his recent Saturnalia Edits—full of re-purposed grime vocals over ambient tone poems—the song's pitched-up heartbreaker vocals hover like hummingbirds over frosted plinks and harmonic synth-sweeps. Deadboy provides an answer to a question we've all been wondering: what would it feel like to fall in unrequited love with an immortal yoga guru?

He's also shared a gorgeous video for the song, which we've got an exclusive premiere of below, along with his answers to our Firsties and Faves questionnaire:

First favorite song:
Kriss Kross "Jump Jump"

First time you ever got in trouble?
I got kicked out of Beavers (like scouts for little kids) for general rowdiness I think.

First online screen name?
Daphne_blake.

First act of defiance?
Rejecting the womb.

First club experience?
Some goombah drum n' bass night.

First job?
At a one-hour photo place.

First kiss?
Spin the bottle with a traveler girl from school.

Favorite guilty pleasure?
No pleasure should be guilty unless it's, like, abusive or something.

Favorite rumor you've ever heard about yourself?
That I'm black.

Favorite luxury items you’d buy if you could?
Virtual Reality Pleasure Dome.

Favorite physical texture?
Tree.

Favorite embarrassing thing you’ve ever witnessed happen to someone?
Slipping on a banana skin IRL.

Favorite diva?
Enya.

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