Trivia / Macklemore

• Acting for Two: In the "And We Danced" video, Macklemore is mainly Raven Bowie, but briefly appears as the neighbor bothered by the party.
• Breakthrough Hit: "Thrift Shop."
• One-Hit Wonder: Not Macklemore, who quickly avoided this. However, the guest artists in each of his songs (Mary Lambert in "Same Love", Ray Dalton in "Can't Hold Us" and especially (Tee)Wanz in "Thrift Shop") might all end up being best known for doing the choruses (and maybe some of their extra parts) in Macklemore's songs, partially due to all of them not being well-known beforehand. Wanz is particularly unlikely to have a second hit because he's 52. That is, unless Macklemore works with them again and they also become hit songs.
  • As of 2014, Lambert has made a name for herself as an indie-pop singer. Dalton records original music, but he still hasn't charted since. Wanz has fallen off the map completely.
  • 2015 ups the ante with "Downtown", which features singer Eric Nally, 80s rap legends Melle Mel and Grandmaster Caz. Kool Moe Dee is an aversion, having been a featured artist on Will Smith's "Wild Wild West".
• The Red Stapler: Many thrift shop owners reported increased sales, particularly among teenagers and college students, after "Thrift Shop" became a hit.
• Truth in Television: All of those thrift shops in the video? Yup. Real Seattle thrift stores (though the Value Village on Capitol Hill had to close due to gentrification). The Goodwill "bins" on 6th Ave S (just down the road from the stadiums) are full of odds and ends that not even the "regular" Goodwill on Dearborn could sell.