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Casey Spooner (born February 2, 1970) is an American artist and musician. Spooner is one of two members of electroclash performance group Fischerspooner. He resides in Paris, France, Los Angeles, California, and New York City.[1]

Casey Spooner (born February 2, 1970) is an American artist and musician. Spooner is one of two members of electroclash performance group Fischerspooner. He resides in Paris, France, Los Angeles, California, and New York City.[2]

Early life

Spooner was born in Athens, Georgia[3] and attended University of Georgia.[4]

Fischerspooner

Spooner met Warren Fischer in 1998 while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the two would go on to form the musical duo group Fischerspooner. The group worked in performance, photography, and immersive enterprises such as museum exhibitions and musical acts.[5] Spooner primarily wrote songs and performed vocals for the group while the classically trained Fischer composed the songs. The group grew to over 20 performers, most of whom were dancers and collaborative guest vocalists. "We started as a performance art piece about entertainment that ultimately became legitimate entertainment," said Casey Spooner, when talking about the group's origins in an April 2009 interview.[6]

#1 (2001)

Fischerspooner's debut album, #1, has been released on several record labels, including International DJ Gigolo, Ministry of Sound and Capitol Records, and includes their hit singles "Sweetness", "Emerge", and a cover of Wire's "the 15th". In the final months of 2004, Fischerspooner opened up their FS Studios in New York City to the public for a few hours once a week, allowing people to meet the band and production team, as well as preview new video, music and dance projects that they were working on.

Odyssey (2005)

In 2005, Odyssey, the band's second album, was released. The album featured songs that were more structured and more accurately described as electropop than electroclash. "Odyssey was really about being on Capitol, which was this icon of classic American music, trying to embrace that cliché and find a way to embody it and infiltrate it and take it apart at the same time", says Spooner.[7]

Sir (2018)

The album Sir, executive-produced and co-written by Spooner's first boyfriend, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., and Boots, was released on February 16, 2018 on Ultra.[8] The band released the first single "Have Fun Tonight" on June 19, 2017.  The song "Top Brazil", was released on January 19, 2018; along with an electro-pop music video which Billboard called, "provocative." NPR interpreted the album as a retrospective collage of Reagan-era queer references framed in an undeniably contemporary style.

Independent Work

Spooner has contributed and worked on shows with Doorika, a performance arts collective based in Chicago and New York City.

Casey joined experimental New York performance ensemble The Wooster Group in 2007, taking on the role of Ophelia's brother Laertes in their production of Hamlet (which featured two Fischerspooner songs that were composed for the show). During this time, he also began work on a third Fischerspooner album (with Warren Fischer).[9] Entertainment was released in North America via the band's own label FS Studios on May 4, 2009, produced by Jeff Saltzman (The Killers, The Black Keys, The Sounds). An American and European Tour, known as Between Worlds, continued all through 2009. Like in other Fischerspooner's performances, Spooner was the main figure of the show.

In January 2010, Spooner distributed online his first solo work, the song "Faye Dunaway", as a preview of a 2010 solo album entitled Adult Contemporary. The album, according to words by Spooner on Twitter, was recorded directly after finishing Entertainment, and was scheduled for release in 2010.

He served as the opening act for Scissor Sisters on their North American tour. This was possible thanks to the funding provided by his fans through Kickstarter, the crowdfunding online platform.[10]

In 2020, Spooner released his first solo single, "I Love My Problems."[11]

"God Control" writing credit

In November 2019, Spooner revealed that he had worked with the French music producer Mirwais and that they had worked together on a song which Mirwais had originated and to which Spooner contributed; this was said to be for Mirwais's album which was later shelved. This song was not released.

At a later date, Mirwais brought his idea to his friend and collaborator, the American singer Madonna, who, like Spooner, wrote lyrics and provided additional contributions. Mirwais's song was included on Madonna's 2019 album Madame X under the title "God Control". Spooner said that he was unaware that this had happened until he found out that the song had been released and listened to the song and that Mirwais neglected to tell Madonna that Spooner had worked on the song. Mirwais got in touch with Spooner and countered that he indeed told Madonna that Mirwais and Spooner had worked together. Madonna said through a representative that Mirwais did not tell her about Spooner's contributions. Spooner posted a demo of what became "God Cotrol on his Instagram as evidence that Madonna released the song without crediting or paying Spooner. Spooner says he is now (November 2019) seeking monetary compensation; 1% of profits from Madonna's concert tour as he believes there is [no longer] "any money from record sales". Spooner says he is dissatisfied with Madonna's representatives' counteroffer as he believes it is too little. If Spooner does eventually accept Madonna's representatives' terms, a writing credit in his name would be added. He says because he contributed that under French copyright law (Mirwais is French and as previously stated, he originated the song; as well, Spooner lives in France), and was not aware of the song's release, the song should "not exist" and that Spooner could conceivably obtain an injunction in a French court to stop further distribution of "God Control", although he himself admitted that a court might be hesitant to give Spooner an injunction due to who the other parties are.[12][13][14][15]

2020 United States Presidential Campaign

Spooner announced a presidential bid for the 2020 presidency on the Fourth of July in 2019.[16] [17]

References

  1. ^ SSENSE (2018-04-05). "Casey Spooner: An American in Paris". ssense. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  2. ^ SSENSE (2018-04-05). "Casey Spooner: An American in Paris". ssense. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  3. ^ "Another gay man just announced he's running for president". Newsweek. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  4. ^ "Interview: Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner". COOL HUNTING®. 2014-09-12. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  5. ^ "Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner Is on a Post-Breakup, Midlife-Crisis World Tour". W Magazine. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  6. ^ "SuicideGirls". SuicideGirls. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  7. ^ "SuicideGirls". SuicideGirls. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  8. ^ "Digital Butch: Casey Spooner's 'Aggressively Homosexual' Pop Music". www.out.com. 2017-09-01. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  9. ^ "Casey Spooner: Fischerspooner". SuicideGirls.com. 27 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
  10. ^ "Kickstarter Project". Retrieved 2011-07-03.
  11. ^ "Watch ex-Fischerspooner member Casey Spooner's carnival video for 'I Love My Problems'". NME. 2020-03-13. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  12. ^ "Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner Says Madonna Didn't Pay or Credit Him for Madame X Song". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  13. ^ "Casey Spooner on Instagram: "my demo GOD CONTROL"". Instagram. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  14. ^ "Casey Spooner on Instagram: "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH @madonna has fucked me over. I co-wrote GOD CONTROL and I've gotten no credit and no compensation. I've been dealing with…"". Instagram. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  15. ^ "Casey Spooner on Instagram: "COPYRIGHT LAW"". Instagram. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  16. ^ "Another gay man just announced he's running for president". Newsweek. 2019-07-09. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  17. ^ Cooper, Mariah (2019-07-08). "Gay singer Casey Spooner announces U.S. presidential bid". Washington Blade: LGBTQ News, Politics, LGBTQ Rights, Gay News. Retrieved 2021-10-06.


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