![]() ![]() We had our band on stage, we had a partial track, but I wasn’t lip-syncing,” Deadly says. “That was a moment when I really, really felt the beauty of the theme song and the fruits of that labor. Lisa Vanderpump joined WWHL host Andy Cohen on stage while Memoir sang the iconic lyrics to the theme song. Even though Deadly isn’t well-versed in the ten seasons of Vanderpump drama, she says one of the best nights of her life was when she performed “Raise Your Glass” on Watch What Happens Live back in 2016. In fact, despite the fact that she dabbles in watching reality-television shows like Love Is Blind and some of the Real Housewives franchises, she says she’s never really tuned into Vanderpump Rules. But this is a joy song and that’s still important.”ĭeadly hasn’t been keeping up with the news surrounding Scandoval. “Half of all the music that we make is to bring joy and celebrate and to release and to heal, and half the music is to blow the whistle because there’s so much work to be done. I mean, that’s why you do music,” she says. The singer-songwriter is passionate about social justice issues and using her music as a way to talk about the topics she considers most pressing, but she says she loves the popularity of the VPR theme song. “But I was also like, oh, that’s not a big deal because I wanted to be at the Grammys, I was targeting my interview with Oprah, because I’m interested in what we’re going to do with the platform that comes from making music.”Īll these years later, though, Deadly appreciates the staying power “Raise Your Glass” has had with fans of the show. “It was cool and it was nice to have my family sit around the couch for the first moment,” Deadly says. She says she was happy that “Raise Your Glass” was reaching a large audience but she wasn’t necessarily over-the-moon excited about the experience. Their manager submitted the song and Vanderpump Rules selected it for their theme song when the show first aired on Bravo in January 2013.īack when the show premiered, Deadly says she remembers watching the opening credits to the episode with her friends and family. One time, Memoir received a request from a music licensing company to come up with a song that sounded like Pink’s 2010 hit single “Raise Your Glass” but also sounded a little like 311’s “Down.” Deadly, Kelley, and Garner were all living together in Deadly and Kelley’s home in the Glendale area of Los Angeles and the trio wrote, produced, and recorded “Raise Your Glass” in their basement home studio. While they were recording creative projects and trying to get their band off the ground, their manager suggested they also make music on spec for commercials, television, and film as a way to earn some extra income. At the time, Deadly - whose real name is Dena Marie Kelley - was a singer-songwriter in a pop band called Memoir with her then-husband Zed Kelley and her brother Remi Garner. When Deadly wrote and recorded the Vanderpump Rules theme song “Raise Your Glass” more than a decade ago, she didn’t anticipate the impact it would ultimately have in the Bravo universe - and in her own life. I’m just so happy that people love it and are rocking out to it in the club.” “People are enjoying it and joy is radical in these times. Now, I have nothing but humility and gratitude for it,” singer-songwriter Dena Deadly told Rolling Stone. “I definitely neglected it for a lot of years because my standard was the Grammys and so it was like, this is no big deal to me. Page Six posted a video of James Kennedy playing the song to an excited, screaming crowd when he DJed at a New York City night club in April, people are using it in the background as they recreate the show’s opening credits on TikTok, and it’s even been played during workout classes. In the last couple of months, as everything involving Vanderpump has shot into the zeitgeist because news broke that Tom Sandoval cheated on Ariana Madix, his girlfriend of ten years, with their friend and fellow cast member Raquel Leviss, “Raise Your Glass” has especially skyrocketed in public interest. Showrunner Jeremiah Smith told The Wrap in February, “When you hear that song, you immediately know what show is on TV. The more people became obsessed, the more the song became synonymous with Vanderpump Rules. Fans of the Bravo show have always had an affinity for the show’s theme song. Vanderpump Rules fans know these lyrics well they comprise the chorus of “Raise Your Glass,” the show’s theme song, appearing in the opening credits since the series’ inception back in 2013. ![]() Let’s raise our glasses high, this one’s for you tonight.” “You know that it’s our time, these are the best days of our lives. ![]()
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