Rhythm Cafe MKE
VOL46 - Holy Pinto - Billboard
Season 2025 Episode 15 | 4m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Billboard is a deeply reflective track about the inescapable nature of self
Billboard is a deeply reflective track about the inescapable nature of self—wherever we go, we take our thoughts, emotions, and burdens with us. Whether you’re in Milwaukee, Antarctica, or anywhere in between, you can’t outrun who you are. Originally a piano ballad, this stripped-down acoustic version brings out the raw emotion and lyrical depth that makes Holy Pinto’s music so unique.
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Rhythm Cafe MKE is a local public television program presented by MILWAUKEE PBS
Rhythm Cafe MKE
VOL46 - Holy Pinto - Billboard
Season 2025 Episode 15 | 4m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Billboard is a deeply reflective track about the inescapable nature of self—wherever we go, we take our thoughts, emotions, and burdens with us. Whether you’re in Milwaukee, Antarctica, or anywhere in between, you can’t outrun who you are. Originally a piano ballad, this stripped-down acoustic version brings out the raw emotion and lyrical depth that makes Holy Pinto’s music so unique.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(object clangs) (feet plodding) - But it sounds really cool though, like... (jazzy piano music) Hi I'm Aymen from Holy Pinto.
This song's called Billboard.
(gentle guitar music) ♪ If I had a billboard ♪ ♪ To show the whole world ♪ ♪ It'd say never stay in one place for too long ♪ ♪ Gift if the gamble's just disappeared ♪ ♪ And all I can feel is this terror this year ♪ (gentle guitar music) ♪ Whenever I, ever I, ever I ever ♪ ♪ Wherever I, ever I, ever I ever ♪ ♪ Whenever I, ever I, ever I leave ♪ ♪ I take me with me ♪ (gentle guitar music) ♪ I broke down in Texas ♪ ♪ Its dustbowl beauty ♪ ♪ Day that I learned to not believe in me ♪ ♪ The end of the summer with everything close ♪ ♪ Flew like a snowbird, yes flee from the cold.
♪ (guitar music) ♪ Whenever I, ever I, ever I ever ♪ ♪ Wherever I, ever I, ever I ever ♪ ♪ Whenever I, ever I, ever I leave ♪ ♪ I take me with me ♪ (guitar music) ♪ Whenever I, ever I, ever I ever ♪ ♪ Wherever I, ever I, ever I ever ♪ ♪ Whenever I, ever I, ever I leave ♪ ♪ I take me with me ♪ (gentle guitar music) The song Billboard, I wrote it around 2020, 2021.
It's quite a, essentially it's like we take our burdens wherever we go.
So basically it's the you can't escape yourself.
The old classic, so if the other song Milwaukee was about settling here and kind of my perspective on that, this song's almost more, it doesn't matter if you're in Milwaukee or you're in, I don't know, Antarctica.
It's like we still live with our own thoughts.
We still do our own thing.
And that song was very much about that.
It's like, I take me with me.
I am wherever I am, and ultimately we are all that.
So I wrote that song.
It's kind of a piano ballad on the record, and I broke it down acoustic guitar here.
But it's very, it's kind of non geographic in a lot of ways.
It's kind of the behind that geography.
So that's what that song's about.
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