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- 😄 nora anne / undeniable review
there’s a massive thunderstorm going on, so this weeks review is being written from the depth of being extra vibey and look, i get it, those rain sounds are a bit cheesy, but i love them. i’m sorry, i do. unfortunately this song doesn’t have a rain track, but it does have a ton more fun and drama going for it, and i really like it so i think you will too! meet nora anne and their track undeniable, a melancholic and often times dramatic pop tune which i enjoyed a lot.
the levels of camp drama in this song are really fun. from the tiny piano riff to the dramatic fluourishes of strings and oh so creepy scales at play. this is a song that honestly belongs on the wednesday soundtrack or something. it’s dripping with character and personality that give it a real step above the competition that i really love. i think pop should be camp sometimes, and i think that campness should be done with both barrels and no shame, and that’s what’s going on here. take a look at the vocal for example, the half held back voice work is so well done. it speaks to a vocalist who really knows what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, and that rules.
i think this song just needed a moment where it really let it’s hair down and kinda go for it. it’s all well and good holding yourself back as much as you think you need to, but there does also come a time when you need to go, and this song never really gave us that when i think it could’ve been a real apex to the song.
im tinklin on the piano being all spookyyyyy 👻
im debating this one a little bit. there’s some obvious influences right, you’ve got your olivia rodrigo, your billie eilish, even your adele? a lil, and to be clear, not just ohh female sounding pop star, i mean a very clearly throughline of melodramatic and achingly camp pop that isn’t that bombastic but more measured and austere. but i think there’s a better comparison on that front, and that’s the work of modern baseball, and i think this is a rogue one but stick with me for a sec. one of the things that, for me, make modern baseball stand out from the standard emo fair is half the time, the vocalists sound like they’re like, maybe a bad day and a mean world from just losing it. they have this tight pent up energy that feels like when you’ve been hunching your shoulders for so long you forget they’re hunched. it’s not just tense, it’s resigned to not being able to do anytihng about it but carrying on anyway. maybe that’s what it’s like being from philly? anyway, this weeks song almost has that feeling but expresses it rather differently, through the lens of that more austere camp pop rather than emo pop punk.
this artist rules! genuinely, this is one that could absolutely be popping off in the not too distant. that personality and drama that i loved in this song is present throughout and there’s a tonnnn of good music to sing your teeth into. their lead song shd is a bit of a bop too, with the vocalist really letting themselves go in a few moments and damn they have pipes. worth a listen, imo
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