“Bada Bing!” is the new single from Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and musician Miranda Joan, featuring east coast producer, multi-instrumentalist, and bass extraordinaire CARRTOONS. Named after the iconic strip club headquarters in The Sopranos, Miranda playfully leans into her Italian heritage and explores the flirtatious Bada Bing! fireworks moment when you meet someone new. The song becomes a nod to the explosive side of colliding with someone, and the satisfying taste of simmering down the sauce to be able to enjoy it fully: “Italian culture in large part revolves around food, and in my house that love lives in the pasta sauce. To this day there are few things more comforting than a bowl of pasta, and so “red sauce kind of loving” is the only kind of love I’m looking for. A love that is imbued with the foundational principles of cooking a great sauce: low and slow.”

A standout track on the CARRTOONS co-produced album ‘Overstimulated’ (Out 10 th November), “Bada Bing!” is a true
collaboration between the pair as they tap into their inner Tony Soprano and Dr Melfi: “this song started as a track that CARRTOONS played for me entitled “Bada Bing!” I loved it immediately and decide to write to it, fitting in as many Sopranos references as I could,” Miranda adds.

Accompanying the single is a Sopranos-themed music video directed by Gigi Nettles which allows Miranda Joan to take her inner Tony Soprano one step further. Heading out to New Jersey, the video recreates the opening sequence from the hit TV show and concludes with the final scene of Tony’s last look in the series. “I knew I wanted to dress up as Tony, lean over my giant bowl of pasta, drive around New Jersey, and dance around in front of some landmark locations from the show.”

The video also features CARRTOONS in the role of the mafia therapist, in a dynamic that summarises so much of the album creation process between the pair: “It made sense to me to switch the roles because, for starters, I wanted to be Tony, but if we’re going to get into it, so much of this process of producing a record with Ben has been us sitting together in a room, almost weekly, for a couple years - talking, working out ideas and making music. This record has a lot of my personal life in it, my heartache, my dreams, my joy, my pain, and through this musical therapy, we developed a true friendship.”