The Monday Playlist: Adele, FLETCHER, Clara Mae and more
(Yes, it's me again, with more music, this time from last week)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, by which I of course mean Adele has rounded off a string of big album releases ahead of the biggest gift giving push. Usually around now the new music cycle tapers off because everyone is listening to their favourite festive mixes so don’t expect much in the way of new music in the weeks ahead.
Thanks for indulging me as ever by subscribing to this humble little music blog. There’s a fair few good ones in this week’s roundup so I hope you find something you like!
Here’s the Spotify playlist - Happy Listening!
Oh My God by Adele - Well, that’s Adele back with the new album then is it? Had a little cry earlier at the clip from her show where she was reunited with her school teacher. If you haven’t listened to 30, there is a lot of drawn out balladry on there and whilst we love and respect her for it, it’s the rhythmic bops like Oh My God that people like me, and maybe you, really live for
Can I Get It by Adele - the moody guitar-pop standout from the record’s pacier numbers, Max Martin and SHELLBACK on the production for this and it shows, a wee banger so good you’ll even forgive the dated background whistling
To Be Loved by Adele - with five 6 minute plus ballads to choose from and a low bandwidth for songs that exceed a 3.30 time stamp, Adele was really testing me personally, but I can’t deny the sheer power that she blows into To Be Loved, the way it rises is profoundly, unstoppably brilliant but its the nuanced emotion of her voice that will anchor you for the full 6 minutes and 43 seconds Adkins asks of you
Strangers by Ashley Kutcher - if you like: falling for strangers, dancing with danger, crossing lines and/or wasting time, then this perfect little pop song from Ashely Kutcher is for you
Somos Nada by Christina Aguilera - was just thinking about Christina Aguilera the other day and zip zop zooey there she is with a new enormoballad - a testament that you don’t need to be able to understand a language to find a song that moves you. One of the greatest living vocalists surely
Missing You Sucks by Clara Mae - this is a cute little guitar-pop ballad, there’s a bit of Ed Sheeran about this in the way it progresses, but definitely one of this week’s most memorable offerings
I AM WOMAN by Emmy Meli - a great little rhythm-pop song, think Alessia Cara. Here’s the chorus in full because why not: “I am woman, I am fearless/I am sexy, I am divine/I am unbeatable, I am creative/Honey, you can get in line/I am feminine, I am masculine/I am anything I want/I can teach you, I can love you/If you got it going on”
Cherry (feat. Hayley Kiyoko) by FLETCHER - the way this comes at you from the first second is so EXCITING, a truly magical thing when a song does that isn’t it? Rare when the verses outstrip the chorus in quality for a pop song, but here Fletcher and Kiyoko have nailed it
i don’t like u by Milky Sad - I think Milky Sad might just be the worst stage name anyone has ever devised for themselves, truly baffling, but I suppose it fits in with this little slice of fuck-the-world sadboi pop, it’s not not catchy
Hey Siri by salem ilese - an I’m'-depressed-but-make-it-cute pop song to finish off this week, the lyrics are quite something: ‘Hey Siri, could you cancel my alarm at 8:05?/Cause lately, I can't sleep, I've been spending all my time/Just trying to find all of the answers to the questions/That you can't look up online, cause I/Can't shake the feeling that we're only born to die”