The problem with empowerment songs is that everybody sounds empowered by the second chorus. Heart shattered? Fixed. Self-esteem missing? Located. Rotten boyfriend? Deleted. Three minutes later everybody's stronger, wiser, hotter, and presumably...
Some of the most interesting creative chapters begin when we least expect them. For 50mething, that chapter arrived at 58, with a decision to finally bring decades of ideas and a catalogue...
Jordan Bakewell wrote "Nights Like This" the same way he writes most of his material, alone, late, and on the road, with a lot of the lyrics coming together during post-gig drives...
50mething's backstory alone makes him one of the more unusual artists working right now, a 58-year-old former dancer and garden builder sitting on a backlog of roughly 70 completed tracks, only now...
"This is My Crescendo" is a rare thing, a song written entirely from inside the ritual of a concert pianist's premiere day. Rather than romanticizing performance from the outside, it tracks the...
Andrei British has been building out this same fictional world for a while now. This cantina exists in the same universe as "Alien Jazz Girl," his earlier single inspired by John Williams'...
If a city could have a playlist, Marbella would probably have very strong opinions about the bass. Anna Kam’s “Marbella” leans fully into the destination’s sun-soaked, international energy, combining Latin pop, reggaeton...
Love songs have given us plenty of metaphors: stars, oceans, fire, heaven. Amanda Holley goes somewhere considerably more appetising. In “Seasoning,” attraction is measured in cinnamon, peppermint, citrus, and cravings; a playful...
