#jesse ware

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um, wtf it’s july????? welppp here’s my fave albums of 2020 so far!!! 💞💞💞

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Radio 2 Festival Day 2

The weather forecast for day 2 was gloomy, rain and thunderstorms were promised, and despite waking up to an ashen sky, I was still determined to jump on the train from Nottingham and head off back to Leicester for another day of live music. As I walked from the station to Victoria Park, the younger generations were happily chatting about how excited they were about Kylie Minogue’s performance.…

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Jessie Ware - Free Yourself

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Jesse Ware is singing Cinema w Harry

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Kylie Minogue - via social media - "Fun??? YES!!! 💖"

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JESSE WARE. ELEGANT DISCO QUEEN.

It was precisely in the corona year that female pop stars returned to the intense liveliness of eighties disco, from Studio 54 parties to Italo Disco. Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, Kyle Minogue delved into the retro, and also into the clichés. In the UK, Roisin Murphy did it a little less more sophisticated, with club music in Manchester style (and with live clips from her lockdown on Ibiza).  But it could be even better. Jessie Ware, hailed as Frank Ocean's British counterpart on her debut in 2012, proved with her blistering 2020 'What's Your Pleasure?' why the acclaim and reviews were so good at the time. James Ford, a man behind the scenes of recent British pop (he is e.g. responsible for the Last Shadow Puppets, a nostalgic but anything but old-fashioned masterpiece). Ware and Ford approached disco with the same open mind and ears full of history. With respect for the underground origins of disco in pre-AIDS and emerging black awareness, sprinkled it with luxury (the violins were recorded with real musicians in Abbey Road), a touch of humor, ultimate danceable without the beats breaking the melodies apart. Ware herself often sings efficiently as much as Dusty Springfield, with a slightly smaller range in the voice, but not in the emotions. She clearly does not want to be an aging doll girl like Lipa and Gaga, but a warm and inviting adult woman. An hour long you hear elegant disco, there is no provocation, but teasing and seduction, to make you dream and give  you hope. Beyond the invitation to the dance, a darkness shimmers in the fragile texts, because the night beckons outside. It is different there. Maybe better, maybe worse. After all, it remained 2020.