Hollywood (Car Seat Headrest song)

The song was described by Spin as Car Seat Headrest's "aim to make a big leap into alternative rock". The staff further described the song to feature "familiar heavy riffs", "a big hook" and "heavy grooves".{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2020/04/car-seat-headrest-shares-the-riff-heavy-hollywood/|title=Car Seat Headrest Shares the Riff Heavy 'Hollywood'|date=April 16, 2020|accessdate=May 8, 2020|work=Spin}} Toledo commented that the song was "about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people and doing terrible things to maintain their fantasy".{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/car-seat-headrest-share-new-single-hollywood-2648585|title=Car Seat Headrest share new single 'Hollywood'|work=NME|date=April 17, 2020|accessdate=May 7, 2020|first=Alex|last=Gallagher}} In Pitchfork's review of the associated album, critic Ian Cohen described the lyrics as "Eephus pitch" and called it "something that destabilizes through counter-intuitive simplicity".{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/car-seat-headrest-making-a-door-less-open/|title=Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open Album Review|work=Pitchfork|first=Ian|last=Cohen|date=May 1, 2020|accessdate=May 7, 2020}}

Writing for Pitchfork, Ian Cohen compared the song as Toledo's "version of Weezer's 'Beverly Hills'" and described the concept as "catchy" and "banal". Upon reviewing the associated album, Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone called the track as one of the most "divisive".{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/car-seat-headrests-making-a-door-less-open-992470/|title=Car Seat Headrest's 'Making a Door Less Open' Follows a Forked Path to a Big Emotional Payoff|first=Jon|last=Blistein|date=May 1, 2020|accessdate=May 8, 2020|work=Rolling Stone}} Writing for The Observer, Emily Mackay wrote that the song is "pleasingly punchy, but brought down by facile lyrics".

In a less positive review, Alexis Petridis of The Guardian described the track as Making a Door Less Open's "dead thud". Petridis stated: "a conflation of guitar and raw-throated rapping in which the spirit of 1 Trait Danger seems rather too evident, self-consciously wacky shrieked vocals and all."{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/apr/30/car-seat-headrest-making-a-door-less-open-review-matador|title=Car Seat Headrest: Making a Door Less Open review – cult indie star in middle of the road|date=April 30, 2020|accessdate=May 8, 2020|work=The Guardian|first=Alexis|last=Petridis}}

The release of the track was accompanied by an animated music video. It was directed by Sabrina Nichols.{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/car-seat-headrest-share-new-song-hollywood-listen/|title=Car Seat Headrest Share New Song "Hollywood": Listen|date=April 16, 2020|accessdate=May 7, 2020|work=Pitchfork|first=Evan|last=Minsker}} In the animated music video, Toledo appears as his alter ego, Trait, wearing a gas mask, as he takes a journey through Hollywood.{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/car-seat-headrest-hollywood-video-985013/|title=Car Seat Headrest Caution Against 'Hollywood' in Animated Video|date=April 16, 2020|accessdate=May 7, 2020|work=Rolling Stone|first=Daniel|last=Kreps}}{{cite web|url=https://diymag.com/2020/04/16/watch-car-seat-headrest-hollywood|title=Car Seat Headrest unleash new track 'Hollywood'|date=April 16, 2020|accessdate=May 8, 2020|work=DIY}}

Credits adapted from Bandcamp.{{Cite web|url=https://carseatheadrest.bandcamp.com/album/making-a-door-less-open|title=Making A Door Less Open, by Car Seat Headrest|website=Car Seat Headrest|access-date=May 8, 2020}}

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• Will Toledo – vocals, synths, keyboards, organ, guitar, piano, drum programming
• Andrew Katz – vocals, drums, drum programming
• Ethan Ives – guitars
• Seth Dalby – bass guitar

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;Additional musician

• Gianni Aiello – guitar

;Technical

• Will Toledo – production, engineering, mixing
• Andrew Katz – production, mixing, mastering

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