Who Is Fancy是一名歌手、词曲作家、音乐家，来自美国阿肯色州，是大机器旗下新晋歌手，主要作品有《Goodbye》等。
Jack Hagood 出生于1991年3月29日，他的艺名Who Is Fancy更广为人知。他是来自阿肯色州本顿维尔的音乐家,由Scooter Braun 和Scott Borchetta共同签署至Big Machine Label Group。
Fancy出生于阿肯色州后来搬到纳什维尔，在田纳西州的垂瓦卡拿撒勒大学就读。后来他离开大学去追求音乐生涯。他是2015年Republic Records在iHeartMedia Music Summit记录的重点之一，尽管他的身份是个秘密。首单“Goodbye”于2015年2月10日推出，他于2015年4月7日在The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon正式公开身份。
Beginning in January 2015, Hagood, his management team, and his record label, built a viral campaign around the singer and his debut single "Goodbye". The single was released without revealing the person behind the "Fancy" pseudonym. A series of pseudo-music videos and a lyric-only clip were viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube, and with early radio support from stations like New York's Z100, the song reached number 29 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart, number 48 on the Billboard Digital Songs chart, and number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three music videos for the single were released, featuring three different actors lip-syncing to the song. Each video dealt with themes like gender identity and body positivity. A fourth music video featuring the performer himself in the same setting was filmed but never released.
In an interview with USA Today, Hagood said that one of motivations behind the campaign was for people to "know his art before they knew him". However, the concept met with a mixed response from some of Hagood's friends, including pop singer Meghan Trainor, who says she was vocally against it from the start. "I felt like you're hiding this guy," she told The Canadian Press. "What I loved about (Who is Fancy) was his appearance. He's this bubbly, happy person … he has the confidence, he has everything, and they just — I don't like what they did."
Hagood finally revealed his identity on April 7, 2015, in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
To promote his second single "Boys like You", Who Is Fancy performed with collaborators Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande on Dancing with the Stars on January 23, 2016.
After "Boys Like You" failed to perform on the charts, Hagood parted ways with manager Braun and Republic. In an interview with The Canadian Press, he said that he hoped to relaunch his career in summer 2016.
In 2016, Hagood was featured on Clean//Photograph, a Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran mashup by Nashville singer-songwriter Louisa Wendorff. The mashup received good reviews, and was featured on articles on Billboard, Seventeen etc.
Hagood reflected on his experience with a major label, and how they softened his gay persona: "It was everyone wanting to see me win, and they were like, 'Well, maybe you can't win if you're this (type of person),'" he says. "But maybe I could, you know what I mean?"
Who Is Fancy是一名歌手、词曲作家、音乐家，来自美国阿肯色州，是大机器旗下新晋歌手，主要作品有《Goodbye》等。
Jack Hagood 出生于1991年3月29日，他的艺名Who Is Fancy更广为人知。他是来自阿肯色州本顿维尔的音乐家,由Scooter Braun 和Scott Borchetta共同签署至Big Machine Label Group。
Fancy出生于阿肯色州后来搬到纳什维尔，在田纳西州的垂瓦卡拿撒勒大学就读。后来他离开大学去追求音乐生涯。他是2015年Republic Records在iHeartMedia Music Summit记录的重点之一，尽管他的身份是个秘密。首单“Goodbye”于2015年2月10日推出，他于2015年4月7日在The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon正式公开身份。
Beginning in January 2015, Hagood, his management team, and his record label, built a viral campaign around the singer and his debut single "Goodbye". The single was released without revealing the person behind the "Fancy" pseudonym. A series of pseudo-music videos and a lyric-only clip were viewed more than 4 million times on YouTube, and with early radio support from stations like New York's Z100, the song reached number 29 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart, number 48 on the Billboard Digital Songs chart, and number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three music videos for the single were released, featuring three different actors lip-syncing to the song. Each video dealt with themes like gender identity and body positivity. A fourth music video featuring the performer himself in the same setting was filmed but never released.
In an interview with USA Today, Hagood said that one of motivations behind the campaign was for people to "know his art before they knew him". However, the concept met with a mixed response from some of Hagood's friends, including pop singer Meghan Trainor, who says she was vocally against it from the start. "I felt like you're hiding this guy," she told The Canadian Press. "What I loved about (Who is Fancy) was his appearance. He's this bubbly, happy person … he has the confidence, he has everything, and they just — I don't like what they did."
Hagood finally revealed his identity on April 7, 2015, in an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
To promote his second single "Boys like You", Who Is Fancy performed with collaborators Meghan Trainor and Ariana Grande on Dancing with the Stars on January 23, 2016.
After "Boys Like You" failed to perform on the charts, Hagood parted ways with manager Braun and Republic. In an interview with The Canadian Press, he said that he hoped to relaunch his career in summer 2016.
In 2016, Hagood was featured on Clean//Photograph, a Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran mashup by Nashville singer-songwriter Louisa Wendorff. The mashup received good reviews, and was featured on articles on Billboard, Seventeen etc.
Hagood reflected on his experience with a major label, and how they softened his gay persona: "It was everyone wanting to see me win, and they were like, 'Well, maybe you can't win if you're this (type of person),'" he says. "But maybe I could, you know what I mean?"
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