Dealing with an emotionally unavailable partner is a tireless obstacle to climb — and the First Lady of OVO vulnerably opens up about her own experience, as her stirring vocals capture what can be a helpless f
It didn’t matter what street you turned down: This bouncy, head-bopping earworm was the song coming from everyone’s car in late 1998, warning listeners, to the tune of triumphant horns and a crisp piano hook, about being used forthat thing— be it sex, drugs, money, or otherwise. L...
Every single human being that streams my music is my biggest co-sign. I would say Drake, but I mean, a woman somewhere in Congo taking out her hard earned money to stream my music is my biggest supporter, or the woman somewhere in the South of France using my songs to serenade her ...
After all, the Bicentennial is being marketed to Americans as one big, summer-long party. Why shouldn’t disco—the ultimate party music—be everywhere? The Trammps are game. The Philly-based group was in on the ground floor of disco since the early ’70s, when funk took a ...
"Downtown" is, on one level, a song about the good times in a relationship, when things are flush with excitement and discovery and everything seems perfect: "Nothing you say/ Will ever be wrong/ Cause it just feels good being in your arms." But the way Devon Welsh sings the words,...
But spring will do him all right, For the time being. but even at that age he knew there was some- thing about his spirit that could escape; and the final stanza tells of his life at the time of writing the poem. In the final stanza, Wright explains that in San Fermo, above ...
Maybe the thing that was newest aboutNewwas how comfortable McCartney was in an entirely different age. There are next-gen flourishes, but nothing too outside the basic framework of his well-established approach.Newupdated McCartney's sound, but not to the point of being a modern-day curio....
about what it’s like to fall apart: “If you fall apart, then I’m falling behind you/ You know the feeling).” On the chorus to the melancholy banger, Chris’ voice starts and halts like a string being plucked, creating a mournful effect — and oh yes, do we know the feeling. ...
the Nashville-based singer walks listeners through the all-too-relatable territory of feeling emotionally unavailable while also being torn between putting oneself out there romantically and fighting whatever is holding one back. The track comes following the 22-year-old musician being recruited by the...
Written "for a former best friend of mine," about "being really disappointed with someone who you really once truly admired," "Flesh Without Blood" contains some of the most quietly devastating lines of the year: "I don’t see the light I saw in you before/ ...And now I don't ...