Sunday 12 September 2010

Song Crush #1

So I'm well aware that I have become increasingly lax at posting over the past, well, year really. So I thought I'd shake things up a bit.

You know when you can't get a song out of your head for like 2-3 days, when no matter what you do you it just bounces round and round? Sometimes it's not even a whole song, just a fragment or a lyric. I think of these as song crushes. Sometimes it blossoms into something more, a deep relationship with an artist or album or producer. Sometimes you look back a few months later and can't remember why the hell you ever loved that one song SO MUCH. It doesn't have to be the newest or freshest track - sometimes it's an oldie but goldie that suddenly just feels right.

Robyn - With Every Heartbeat



I loved Robyn's last album, Body Talk Pt. 1, and can't wait for her next installments later this year. But I'd forgotten how incredible her break through single, With Every Heartbeat, produced by Kleerup, was. In many ways it's the prequel to the epic Dancing on My Own - it has the same bittersweet, love-lorn feel to it. The way the pulsating beat comes in as the lyrics shift from optimistic to realistic - 'We could keep trying/But things will never change' - my heart just breaks.