#florrie

[themusicsweetly]

NEW / OLD vid of Caitriona Balfe behind-the-scenes of Outlander

[sh-sarahi0912]

IT'S MY FUFI!!!! (Genderbend)

Esp

Perdonen si está en español, no pude encontrar los subtitulos en inglés.

Eng

Sorry if it's in Spanish, I couldn't find the English subtitles.

I hope you like the art, see you later. Goodbye.

[leonid-prokofiev]

François and Esquie are the best characters in media ever. Masterpieces. We’ve achieved perfection

[daikenkki]

Fimbles: Red Nose Blank Scene by JamesMuchtastic

[f-angy77]

Mommy Florrie 💖

[buggerup-busters]

they're besties!!

[entresombrayalma]

[groovesnjams]

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"Swimming Pool" by Florrie

You might have missed it, or forgotten about her, or never even heard her name, but 14 years after starting her solo career Florrie finally released her debut album in June. "Swimming Pool" isn't on it, and wasn't released until summer was winding down, because why should anything start making sense now? It hasn't since the Introduction and Experiments EPs first announced Florrie as an exciting figure in what I'm going to call the post-Body Talk, pre-Queen of the Clouds era, only for her to spend a decade and a half in label purgatory - dropping the occasional song, teasing the rare big news, then disappearing for months if not years. This year the floodgates opened, and it's been fun, if inessential.

To some extent I do believe pop music is eternal: your average six-decade old song by The Shangri-Las can sound as immediate and thrilling as it must have on some teenager's AM radio back when it was released. But then I hear something like "Swimming Pool," a song that's tremendously bright and catchy to a fault, and I start to question that belief. Would this have hit harder back when Girls Aloud were making hits? Or in the brief window where it seemed like Little Mix might succeed them? It's impossible to say - and unlike some parts of Florrie's album, "Swimming Pool" seems like it's a modern creation rather than something she's been working on a while. But it sounds like a relic of an era that never really existed, a product of skilled craftspeople who've polished the song to a brightly shining surface and failed to spend enough time asking why they were doing it. The pop savant's equivalent of a ten minute guitar solo, with just as niche of an appeal. Ultimately I'm glad Florrie's escaped whatever restrictions her label put on her, but I do wonder: is this all it was for? (DV)