{"id":19944,"date":"2016-04-30T11:45:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T10:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=19944"},"modified":"2018-01-24T20:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:30:41","slug":"smashby-pharaoh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/04\/smashby-pharaoh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashby &#8211; &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/10\/smashby-pharaoh\/smashby-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Smashby-3.jpg?fit=812%2C960&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"812,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Smashby 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Smashby-3.jpg?fit=640%2C757&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14737\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Smashby-3.jpg?resize=640%2C757&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Smashby 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"757\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Last year we introduced you to <a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/10\/smashby-pharaoh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smashby<\/a>, a Yorkshire artist who was trying out for the Swiss Eurovision Open Selection, with his song, &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately for Smashby he didn&#8217;t make the cut &#8211; but fortunately for us &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217; has been released and is available to download now from <a href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/smashbyitunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find Smashby online on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/samashbyofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Soundcloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smashbyofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Smashby\/492089970816655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/smashby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch the great video for &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217; here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_25629\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khfpF-Fpwyw?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Smashby - Pharaoh\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/khfpF-Fpwyw\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we introduced you to Smashby, a Yorkshire artist who was trying out for the Swiss Eurovision Open Selection, with his song, &#8216;Pharaoh&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,640],"tags":[219,289,1945,3294,3292,417,306],"class_list":["post-19944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-releases","category-videos","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-new-song","tag-new-video","tag-pharaoh","tag-smashby","tag-switzerland","tag-yorkshire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-5bG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14734,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/10\/smashby-pharaoh\/","url_meta":{"origin":19944,"position":0},"title":"Smashby &#8211; 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