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Til Death
The album's punchy second single has been lodged in the iTunes top 20 since release and looks set to climb into the top 10 when Wynter returns to Australia for a promo tour in June. It's a great pop song and scarily, still grows on me with each listen !
Dirty Talk
This **** is undeniable. The highest selling single in Australia for the first quarter of 2011 is now catching on around the world. Absolutely defining. Now somebody please put the original naughty school girl video back on YouTube. That hot mess is what made me fall in love with my flawless boo in the first place!
Don’t Stop Me
I love this. An effortlessly cool club anthem with an icy edge that I'd usually associate with Robyn or Roisin Murphy - if someone threw a pill down their throat and pushed them on the dancefloor. My favourite part is when Wynter coos "I can melt your heart, you'll be all mine". That and the sassy countdown at the end. Perhaps not single material but great nonetheless.
Buy My Love
Gold diggers have a new theme song! "Buy My Love" is so cute and catchy - definitely a good choice for single number three. It's more electro than we're used to from the diva but there's still something quite camp and 80s about the track. I love the lyrics ("Let's take a quick vacation, a little shopping spree - a fancy destination, we'll spend it all on me!") and adorable chorus. I can definitely hear this on the radio.
Still Getting Younger
Was I more high than usual or did Wynter tweet that this was the next single? If the sticker on the album cover is any indication, it looks like Neon is going with the fabulous "Buy My Love" but I think I prefer this glorious explosion of dreamy synths. Even if it is slightly less commercial. "Still Getting Younger" isn't an ode to Madonna's plastic surgery but a soft and pretty dance-pop love song. It actually reminds me a little of Kylie's "Tightrope" (my favourite "Fever" era track) with a bit of 80s Moroder thrown in for good measure. The lyrics are gorgeous too - "I'm not lonely, I just need you. You're this empty space I got." Simply beautiful.
Back To You
Now this is very different for Wynter. It's a moody mid-tempo electronic groove with amazing lyrics like "you don't know that when I lie in bed I touch myself to you" and "I took you for granted, I spit in your face". It's an atmospheric and multi-layered little gem that no doubt will worm its way further into my consciousness with each listen. Fabulous.
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Buy My Love – This track glistens with a fluorescent summer sheen that instantly brings you a good feeling akin to hearing the ice cream truck arrive on a 40 degree day. Lyrically, we’re treated to the same cheeky Wynter that toyed with us on ‘Dirty Talk’, except she’s now baiting a sugar daddy. But don’t get it twisted. This ain’t a dependency situation but rather a matter of why spend mine when I could spend yours? Instantly enjoyable.
Key lyric: “I’m gonna let you spoil me just for the day… No need to thank me, baby. Your credit card will do!”
Still Getting Younger – An instant classic and what should easily be the centre piece of the album. Wynter told me that ‘Still Getting Young’ is her favourite song of all time and that it was written from a personal place. She didn’t need to explain the latter. I felt the emotions powering the song. Sonically, I’d describe it as a sun-soaked dance track designed to sound like it was captured straight from your mama’s radio in the 80s. This track is flawless. Honestly cannot stop listening to it.
Key lyric: “Our love is growing and getting younger. Still getting younger!”
Don’t Stop Me – A stomping petulant dance/pop number that connects the relative spaces between Zoe Badwi and Alexis Jordan‘s records. I can see myself strutting around town to these feisty lyrics. Watch out for that spoken word breakdown. It is at least four levels of fierce.
Key lyric: “Open up your eyes and see the light, let me take you out into the night. You’re giving me the look. You want it!”
Back 2 U – An ethereal introspective ballad with iridescent synths. This cut straight to my heart in the first listen and is yet another stunning showcase of Wynter‘s songwriting prowess.
Key lyric: “You don’t know that when I lie in bed I touch myself to you. All the creepy thoughts my mind designed to cope with loneliness when I pushed away my one true chance to live in happiness.”
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Wynter Gordon has been a big hit down under, so next month (June 17th, to be exact) the dance diva’s debut album With The Music I Die will be hitting Aussie stores. I was lucky enough to get a preview of the album this week, and judging by the four brand new tracks I heard, fans of Wynter’s smash singles like “Dirty Talk” and “Til Death” definitely won’t be disappointed.
There’s a cohesive dance thread running through all the songs on With The Music I Die, but Wynter hasn’t forgotten the poppier sounds of her pre-dance days, so you get the best of both worlds — hot club beats, but with real hooks and melody. And in the same way that “Dirty Talk” and “Til Death” sound different to each other, so do the rest of the tracks, boasting varying lyrical content and distinctive production.
The album’s potential third single “Buy My Love” is a flirty tongue-in-cheek electro-pop number that sees Wynter telling any potential suitors just what they’ll need to do to win her affections. “There’s a million ways to show your devotion / so many ways to sway my emotions / don’t you hesitate to buy my love.” It shows off a much lighter side of Wynter, and I can already see the girls and the gays singing it as they get ready to head out on a Saturday night.
Then there’s the closest thing you’ll probably hear to a ballad, “Back 2 U”. “I can be so fake, so cold sometimes/ It’s true / I’m such a fool / you don’t know that when I lie in bed / I touch myself to you / all the great big thoughts my mind designed to cope with loneliness / when I pushed away my one true chance to live in happiness / it always comes back to you.” It’s beautifully honest with an enveloping sensibility, and once again, it really shows off a different side of Wynter that you probably never even realized existed.
The much dancier “Don’t Stop Me” builds off the success of Wynter’s previous club hits to deliver another standard dance floor filler. PopTrashAddicts basically described it as a late night pill popper’s anthem, but with the classier edge of a Robyn tune, and I have to say that he’s completely right.
The last new song on the sampler “Still Getting Younger” should please all the Kylie fans out there. The production draws elements from both X and Fever, with floaty verses and a soaring, fist-in-the-air hook. It could be a real contender for a future single if the public decide that they want to hear some dance music with a little more depth.
If the rest of the album is as good as the tuned I’ve heard so far, then With The Music I Die should easily be a favorite amongst pop fans this year.
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