Saturday Song Review: What do you get when you mix Avril with Sigrid? Torine's "Make U Cry"!

This is a bit of a weird choice especially when it's considered Khalid, Halsey, Selena Gomez etc all dropped new music on Friday but I wanted to write about something I actively liked especially after the hyper negativity of the debut edition of this series and while the song I am going to write about today isn't on the the New Music Friday AU and NZ Spotify playlist, it was one I felt I just had to talk about especially given who she reminds me of.

So who is Torine? She's an Norwegian EDM/pop act that broke on to the scene last year with "Dancing In My Sleep" in Norway and has worked with Alan Walker, a DJ/producer who has been hugely successful across Europe with "Make U Cry" being the third song Torine has released.

Okay, if you can imagine taking Avril Lavigne's delivery on some of her slower songs and Sigrid's enchanting vocals then Torine would fit somewhere in the middle, Torine really does sound like Avril on the verses here.

As for "Make U Cry" as a song? It's got some solid guitar with the very European esque electronic production, it's really not bad and while the lyrics are probably the only area of the song that are a bit of an issue (in that they feel as though they don't really scratch the surface of the issues here) but for a short pop song, it's effective, I really enjoyed this and would take whatever Torine has in store for us over ehatever The Chainsmokers did with that god awful "The Reaper" song with Amy Shark. 

So yeah check out "Make U Cry" by Torine. Looking forward to hearing more.

Rating 8/10