New Music Friday Review: 19th March That Brass Summer of an Obsessed Billionaire in Pocket

 "Obsessed" by Addison Rae

Addison Rae is a social media personality where videos of her dancing on Tik Tok garnered attention and enabled her to start a singing career with this song being her first single and I am not going to mince words here the song is a steaming pile of crap, the lyrics are a simplistic look at how this other person is 'obsessed' with her and that this other person isn't alone because she's just as obsessed with herself as they are with her, it's got all the self congratulation and none of the self awareness that could make a song like this perversely interesting and the music is this flat generic affiar that doesn't even match the attitude Addison Rae is trying to sell albeit unconvincingly....this is garbage. Don't let this shit chart!

Rating: 1/10

"Brass In Pocket" by Teddy Geiger

Okay Spotify, nobody asked for this...NOBODY asked for The Pretenders classic "Brass in Pocket" to be stripped of what made the song work in the first place which is the energy and confidence of Chrissie Hynde confidently using her body to make guys NOTICE her. This cover sounds fucking miserable, it just lacks the swagger that makes the original great. 

Rating: 1/10

So we're off to a bad start but it does get better with...

"Billionaire" by Delta Goodrem

Well this is an interesting song...another single from the soon to be released new album "Bridge Over Troubled Dreams" and sees Delta Goodrem exploring a move to a more pop meets Americana meets country sound for a song where she reveals she didn't start drinking alcohol until she's 27 and how she's led with her heart and rather than marry some ridiculously rich man, she's going to work hard to make herself a billionaire. I like this a lot even if it does feel like another self empowerment song but instrumentation works here so yeah I'll take this.

Rating: 8/10

"That Summer" by Kaylee Bell and Josh Miranda

Sooo it's weird to see a song about summer released during autumn but none the less it actually makes sense here because Kaylee Bell and Josh Miranda have collaborated on a song that's reminiscing on a summer hook up that fizzled out for whatever reason and now they are left remembering the good times they had together. I like the country rock/pop production here too and Kaylee Bell has a terrific voice.

Rating 7.5/10