Queen For A Day
Feature Track: If I knew
Deep Cut: Castles in the Air
Rating: 4
I'm wary from the get-go of another Adele-also. Pop music is really hard for me to analyze because for the most part, it is all of superior quality. It is easy to mistake personal preference for objective observation.
There is an interesting ethos about this album. Quite a few of the songs such as New Day and Run Away Together sound like they could have been on a Justin
40 years old. active since the mid-90s. Dutch, of course. What are they smoking over there? Amazing.
And then it drops. If I knew blows the door wide open and this woman just puts it all out there. This song is quite the treasure. One of the best songs I've ever heard. Dirty Girl is next and is sexier and more palatable (dare I say empowering?) than anything Madonna ever imagined or wished.
Any one of these songs could have been on whatever this summer's hit album is going to be. I wonder if she shops her songs around? Does she write all of these? Just her and her husband? I know it's possible. Especially in Dutch [sic].
Keeps Getting Better sounds like it was the product of an entirely different production process than previous tracks. Different mixer? Different studio? It sounds good and full-bodied, but it is a different kind of "full". Flatter, somehow.
The depth is back for Castles in the Air. What a massive voice! And another colossal song. Followed by some sugar BeeBeeiber sounding stuff again. But listen to how serious shit gets during the middle of the first verse of We Are when she stops smiling behind the microphone. You can see her eyes through the speakers. While I applaud the boldness of positive-pop-energy coming from this track, it is probably my least favorite of all. Too contrived.
Right On Time is right on time to balance the record back out. Returning to the slow paced Q-U sound defined in my previous post. I really like the scrambled harmonies during that last minute of the song.
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