He and Rae later met via Zoom, and Rutter said there were no hard feelings between the two. (“It’s seriously the luckiest thing ever,” he quipped.) “But I want to be authentic, be me,” he said, and popularity aside, his Rae cover gave him a nice “financial safety net” to produce the music he prefers to make. His contract with Columbia is only for his next album, and he recognizes that many of his new fans may not like his other music. It earned him a spot on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and landed him a deal with Columbia Records, but it’s a different than the music he made before. Though “Put Your Records On” is Rutter’s most popular song by a mile, he doesn’t view it as a microcosm of his career. “In all seriousness, I wish Ritt Momney the best of luck in his music career and all his future endeavors.” - Sen. “If I could go back and simply cover another song by someone else I would.” “I think it was stupid of me to cover a song by a black woman, especially one that mentions aspects of black life that I obviously have no experience with,” he tweeted. After his “Put Your Records On” cover went big, listeners on social media called him out for “taking credit” for Rae’s song or “appropriating” Black music. “In all seriousness, I wish Ritt Momney the best of luck in his music career and all his future endeavors.”ĭespite his progressive political views, Rutter hasn’t been shielded from scrutiny from those who view him as a privileged white male. “They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” Romney told the Deseret News. “But (my neighbor) chickened out, and he didn’t do it,” Rutter said, laughing. A neighbor of Rutter’s family is an administrator at the University of Utah’s business school and met with the senator a few months ago, and Rutter gave him a T-shirt to give to Romney. Rutter has never communicated with his “namesake,” though. Past recipients include Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights campaign and Sunrise Movement, a pro- Green New Deal climate organization. The singer is active in promoting social justice causes through social media and other means, often making donations with proceeds from merchandise sales. That’s about where Rutter’s agreements with the senator end. “But if that’s the standard, I don’t think we’re doing super well.” “The way I see it, it’s, like, cool of him to stand up to (former president Donald) Trump,” Rutter said. Rutter respects Romney, though they don’t necessarily see eye-to-eye on policy. Singer Jack Rutter, aka “Ritt Momney,” poses for a picture And when Rutter later launched his solo career, he didn’t see the need to change the name. It was years after Romney’s presidential 2012 run and before he ran for the Senate in Utah. Romney was not nearly as visible as he is now. When Rutter and his high school band first adopted “Ritt Momney” as their nickname, Sen. It was sort of a subversion - a ‘stick-it-to-the-man’ sort of thing,” he said. “There’s no reason, man,” he told me as we sat at a coffee shop in Sugarhouse. The story behind the name is more dull than you might think. Nor does he have any intention of changing his moniker - a spoonerism of Utah Sen. He doesn’t want the fame and fast-paced lifestyle to change him, he told me.
A few months later, Billboard gave him the top spot on its Emerging Artists chart.įor a kid from Salt Lake, it’s come fast. Within three days, Rutter signed with Columbia Records. Rutter’s heavily auto-tuned, Indie-pop remix went viral via TikTok makeup tutorials and amassed hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify. He released his track on Spotify in April 2020, but it wasn’t until September that it caught steam - and when it did, it blew up. That cover, a rendition of Corinne Bailey Rae’s 2006 pop hit “Put Your Records On,” was a childhood favorite of Rutter’s. “And I didn’t feel like I could write something happier. “I needed to do something happier,” he recalled.
Rutter - whose music, to that point, centered on breakups and losing his bandmates - wanted to write something joyful. But after his bandmates left for Latter-day Saint missions and Rutter’s solo music ambitions took him to Los Angeles, the pandemic sent Rutter back to his childhood home: his parents’ basement on Salt Lake’s east bench. Sure, the 21-year-old East High graduate had a loyal group of local fans - largely leftovers from his high school garage rock band which used the same pseudonym. This time last year, Salt Lake City one-man-band Jack Rutter, known by the stage name “Ritt Momney,” still lived in relative obscurity.
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