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Not Another Rockstar- Maisie Peters is back.

23rd Oct 2022 — 1 Comment

With one blondie dropping a late night bombshell of an album (stay tuned), let’s not forget another blonde. Maisie Peters, truly a brunette, is back and this time she’s got a rockstar boyfriend.

Not Another Rockstar

Recently we joined her on the floor of a photoshoot backdrop, wiping our eyes wondering why we were not good enough for a boy that made us perfect to them.Resonating with the lyrics ‘sat here in your favourite dress’ understanding that we make ourselves up for other people. All authenticity airbrushes bout of us before it’s had time to fill our edges.That young love belief that creeps into our early adulthood that tries to convinces us that if we replicate what they want then we will be enough for them to stay. The truth is if they didn’t want you at first, they wouldn’t want you anyway. You were always good enough but you can’t stop someone from changing their mind. Here of course I am talking about Good Enough.

Maisie Peters Good Enough

She then went blonde, revenge a new hairstyle. Which lead her to here with the release of her Not another rockstar video. A revenge hairstyle and rebellion boyfriend, Peters speaks to that 17 year old in all of us trying to find themselves without realising they are searching in other people instead of inside themselves, I’m 21 and I still haven’t found her.

Maisie Peters

While Good Enough was an emotional ballad to listen to as you cry in the bathroom mirror before falling to the floor, Not Another Rockstar sends you straight to the dance floor, you grab your girls and yell the opening verse; “Pinky promised I was quitting, pinky promised that I wouldn’t love someone if they didn’t I am a girl with big ambitions, but did i listen?”

This punkish attitude echoes the altruism imbued in her previous 2021 banger cate’s Brother that saw her guitar shred all over TikTok’s for you page. This Rockstar rebel is so intoxicating that we get addicted to the lawlessness, a game of spot the different in a line up, all the lovers look the same, will this cycle ever end? Peters echoes this feral ferocity in backstage dressing room, recalling her previous ode to youth, shouting into a hairbrush microphone.

This love is chaotic but its yours and he lets you know he could have had anyone else, but lucky you, you’re who he chose and you should worship him for that. He’ll make you forgive him when he crosses a line and you find him later in a police row. The pacing of this song does sound like a police chase, you can almost hear the sirens as Pters and her rockstar run through busy streets and behind stage doors.

What’ striking about these scenes than other than the paparazzis, perceived only though camera flashes, this video has only three characters, Peters, rockstar and us. We watch, hepessly as this disorder and dissary unfolds in front of us, in awe of our blonde protagonist in her bright coat and dark shades hoping that this time this boy will be good to her.

Overall this video is a fun, mosh pit must have that becomes a colourful chaotic backdrop to a song full of hard-hitting lyrics and difficult scenarios that depict a narcissistic anti-hero and helps yet aware lover who trails after him as he runs from himself.

Meet Darcy Louch

21st Sep 2022 — Leave a comment

A cardboard cut out shaped into a square, sat on the dining room table surrounded by chairs. A friend or a few come over, or it’s a family night either way it’s all eyes on the prize. We are both united but divided, as the dice rolls and the timer ticket’s anyones win.But it’s also a task a mystery solved together, a property shared. In Darcy’s song Love game the game is over for the female protagonist has already won.

Darcy Louch

Swiping right, swiping left, she is in control of who she lets into her life, she enjoys the contest but refuses to be a conquest. With the card’s on the table it’s anyones bet just as long as the Queen doesn’t demand off with his head.

The dramatic dynamics that Darcy explores in Love game may resonate with those of us who have been in relationships in which our partner is gambling with our emotions, how many bets will they place before tears fall from our face and we pack up our things and leave this place?. The power and immaturity that comes with mind games is wittily explored in this romantic tale of fiction in which no voice can be trusted.Her female powerhouse influences are definitely imbued throughout this song, with echoes of Amy Winehouse and Etta James this piece is a striking performance from Louch.

Louch put this compelling piece together using only Acrobat and Garage band, a completely different formula to the production of her other song worst enemy which was professionally produced in a studio.

Worst enemy

Worst enemy explores the battle of cognitive dissonance, this sinister shallow of self doubt rising through you spine and slowly swallowing your soul as you work your hardest to reach your goals. You know you’re capable but you are worried you’ll fail, you’ll fall just as you reach to get it all. What if the person you’ve worked hard to be isn’t the best person you could be? What do you do when yourself becomes too much for you to handle? All of your energy goes into defeating this ficitious villainous version of a version yourself you have created.

Darcy Louch

Louch uses this song to expose her self inflicted wounds, despite the support of her friends and family she is her worst enemy. Her jazz infused vocals and upbeat backing track could fool you into thinking this was a positive song, which is usually the front we give to people when we are struggling but the lyrics are self explanatory that sometimes being who you are is a constant battle, we may be enough for others but just not for ourselves an dit is about finding faith in our ability and allowing ourselves to be proud of them.

As well as being in her third year of teaching at a special needs secondary school in Barnet she is working hard to release an EP in October which will feature three new tracks- check out my podcast episode with her for exclusives!

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Alvvays make their return with new single Pharmacist

12th Jul 2022 — Leave a comment
ALVVAYS

Made up of Molly Rankin (vocals and guitar), Kerri MacLellan (keyboards), Alec O’Hanley (guitars), Abbey Blackwell (bass), and Sheridan Riley (drums), has been making moves in the indie genre since 2011.

2018 proved a successful year for the band after they received a SOCAN Songwriting prize for their song”Dreams Tonite”,at the Juno awards they were nominated as Group of the Year and their second album, Antisocialites, won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year.After these accolades the band took a well deserved hiatus before being impeded by the pandemic.

Pharmacist by ALVVAYS

Perhaps it is unfair to pigeonhole this group into the indie genre as their instrumentals bleed into sub-genres as well as incorporating main stream pop/punk elements it is no wonder the success of this band continues despite their absence. Their latest release, Pharmacist is a ballad of unrequited love, trying to get to your destination by following misdirections and working to make peace with it all.If anything this single is closest to shoegazey with its distorted affects, emphasising the disorientation you feel on coming back to a familiar place to find most things have changed.

“…I know you’re back,

I saw your sister at the pharmacy

Picking up, said you had that new love glow…”

Lyrics to Pharmacist.

Blue Rev cover art

The lyrics call out to those of us who have faith we have moved on until we return home and focus more on the people in our peripheral vision than those in front due to the lingering hope that we may see our old love, see if they still hold on to the piece of ourselves we feel we have lost. But it is not because of them we are lost, because we are never really lost, we have merely changed, filled out in places that weren’t there before, read different books and look at different website. We are different and so are they. So even when we travel back home, on the look out for old love if we do find them, we must know they are not the memory we have of them, they are someone new.

Pharmacist has been hailed by fans as a supersonic comeback, tears of joy and revelation flooding down their cheeks. The single is a sneak peak into the bands new album “Blue Rev” which will be released October 7 of this year. It may have been a long wait before we heard them again but my god has it been worth it.

ALVVAYS on Spotify.