{"id":62125,"date":"2020-05-06T11:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=62125"},"modified":"2020-05-06T12:48:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:48:08","slug":"alex-sparrow-lets-stay-home-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/05\/alex-sparrow-lets-stay-home-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Sparrow &#8211; &#8216;Let&#8217;s Stay Home Tonight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>It&#8217;s that time of year when we would ordinarily be gearing up to watch European music&#8217;s night of nights, The Eurovision Song Contest. Alex Sparrow competed for his native Russia in the contest in 2011, when it was held in Dusseldorf, finishing in 16th position. There&#8217;s no Eurovision this year because of Covid-19, but there&#8217;s an Alex Sparrow song &#8211; the singer, composer, actor and producer, now based in Los Angeles, has released his most recent single, &#8216;Let&#8217;s Stay Home Tonight&#8217;, and although it&#8217;s no compensation for the Eurovision, it&#8217;s a fun song with an equally upbeat music video.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_32109\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wfbfFVTf9Zc?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=\"Alex Sparrow - Let&#039;s Stay Home Tonight (OFFICIAL VIDEO) | \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0435\u0439 \u0412\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0431\u044c\u0435\u0432\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/wfbfFVTf9Zc\/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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally written as a love song, a simple plea to a lover to drop all plans and just stay home tonight &#8211; it&#8217;s turned out to be a more than appropriate track for the current quarantine conditions. Acoustic guitar and pan pipes, along with a bouncy upbeat rhythm, combined with Alex&#8217;s positive, fun, yet sensual vocals (think Enrique Iglesias) make &#8216;Let&#8217;s Stay Home Tonight&#8217; a song worth hitting that replay button. It&#8217;s a track well in keeping with Sparrow&#8217;s philosophy of a healthy lifestyle and positive mental attitude being all you need to make the impossible possible. And so far, it seems to be working for him. He&#8217;s got more than 980 million views on Facebook, and over 258 million views on YouTube. He&#8217;s also snagged himself a role in &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/05\/watch-the-teaser-trailer-for-netflix-original-series-space-force-starring-steve-carell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space Force<\/a>&#8216;, set for release on Netflix on May 29, which also stars Steve Carrell and John Malkovich. Not bad! Not bad indeed!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video for &#8216;Let&#8217;s Stay Home Tonight&#8217; sees a couple in lockdown LA, working out how to cope in the new world. There&#8217;s a lot of humour in the clip, as in the rest of Sparrow&#8217;s releases &#8211; the pair negotiate their way around on bicycle with a corgi in tow; black market toilet paper is on sale at the bargain price of $100 per roll; and at the end, when the pair are having a fight and his love is about to slap him, Sparrow insists she first sprays her hands with sanitiser. Of course!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find Alex Sparrow online on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Instagram.com\/Mr.AlexSparrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram page<\/a>. Read our other articles about Alex Sparrow <a href=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?s=alex+sparrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when we would ordinarily be gearing up to watch European music&#8217;s night of nights, The Eurovision Song Contest. Alex Sparrow competed for his native Russia in the contest in 2011, when it was held in Dusseldorf, finishing in 16th position. There&#8217;s no Eurovision this year because of Covid-19, but there&#8217;s an Alex Sparrow song &#8211; the singer, composer, actor and producer, now based in Los Angeles, has released his most recent single, &#8216;Let&#8217;s Stay Home Tonight&#8217;, and although it&#8217;s no compensation for the Eurovision, it&#8217;s a fun song with an equally upbeat music video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62126,"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":[7,9,21453,21445,21446,21449,640],"tags":[13906,20700,426,25091,6404,11720,27,6595,77,370,116,1517,10677,25090,81,22992],"class_list":["post-62125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-video-reviews","category-videos","tag-alex-sparrow","tag-beatie-wolfe-orange-juice-for-the-ears-from-space-beams-to-anti-streams","tag-eurovision","tag-john-malkovich","tag-lets-stay-home-tonight","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-los-angeles","tag-netflix","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-review","tag-russia","tag-single-review","tag-steve-carrell","tag-video","tag-video-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-ga1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51031,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/07\/alex-sparrows-back-with-new-single-and-video-never-be-friends\/","url_meta":{"origin":62125,"position":0},"title":"Alex Sparrow&#8217;s Back With New Single And Video &#8216;Never Be Friends&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"05\/07\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The global rising star that is Alex Sparrow is on a seemingly unstoppable trajectory of success and earth staggering talent.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alex-sparrow.jpg?fit=1200%2C947&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alex-sparrow.jpg?fit=1200%2C947&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alex-sparrow.jpg?fit=1200%2C947&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alex-sparrow.jpg?fit=1200%2C947&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alex-sparrow.jpg?fit=1200%2C947&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35265,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2018\/04\/alex-sparrow-shes-crazy-but-shes-mine-got-me-good-and-again-and-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":62125,"position":1},"title":"Alex Sparrow &#8211; &#8216;She\u2019s Crazy But She\u2019s Mine&#8217;, &#8216;Got Me Good&#8217; And &#8216;Again And Again&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"20\/04\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Alex Sparrow was born in Russia and raised in Austrian aristocracy. 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