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Spotlight -- Jessie Ware

Track Review (4/17/2021)

What’s better than dancing your sad feelings away? Jessie Ware creates the perfect pop song for that. In her first single off of her record, What’s Your Pleasure?, Ware encapsulates the pain and longing that comes with heartbreak in the beautifully produced, disco-soaked track, “Spotlight.” 

“Spotlight” opens with humming strings, accentuated by light piano. Ware’s breathy vocals float gently over the instrumentals. The song crescendos, as more strings are layered in the polyharmonic arrangement and Ware exhales “Tell me when I’ll get more / Than a dream of you,” confessing her troubles with letting a past lover go against the richly arranged instruments. 

Suddenly, however, the track crashes down, grounded by a 4-on-the-floor beat. The strings and piano make way for bouncy, dark synthesizers that drive the Hi-NRG tempo of the track. Light handclaps in the back add to the lush, opulent groove of the song, and distorted, squeaky bass and light electronic harmonies complement Ware’s vocals beautifully. 

Throughout “Spotlight,” Ware’s voice glides above the instrumentals. She elegantly yearns for someone who has left her, describing the emotions that have consumed her. “Do anything to make you stay / Do anything to start the day again,” Ware opines. As the chorus approaches, her vocals are layered to accentuate her longing. Her voice in the lines, “If only I could leeetttt you go / If only I could beee alooone,” drip with lushly layered harmonies, as Ware seemingly yearns for this person with every morsel of her being.

As the track proceeds, Ware convinces herself to accept her fate. “Can’t stop the sun from rising / Can’t keep the air we’re breathing / Can’t stop your heart from leaving,” she sings, acknowledging that her heartbreak is inevitable, with funky electronic sounds in the background answering her calls. 

Eventually, Ware’s longing pares down to a whispery “Tell me when I get more than a dream of you.” Ware’s vocals gradually fade away and the underlying beat, synthesizers, and distorted bassline is all that’s left for you to hear. 

Although Ware takes much of her inspiration from the disco movements of the past, this pop song is unlike any you’ve heard before. An amalgamation of many different types of dance genres, “Spotlight” shines the light on Ware’s talent for creating nostalgic, yet forward-thinking pop music. 

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Throwback #jessieware for The Cut @thecut 📸 by @samanthacasolari Dec 2017 https://www.instagram.com/p/CL9PiOuHKpL/?igshid=yh146vmt3z1r

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Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 | @yardsalepizza are back with their specials and this month the responsibility fell in the hands of @jessieware. The singer, who also has a food podcast, has created Friday Night Full House. A white base with brisket, cola braised onions, latkes, and dill pickles. It also comes with a horseradish and sour cream dip. Also, £1 from every order goes towards @nightingalehammerson1. The pizza is available until 30th March. I thought I’d miss not having a tomato base, but once you dip it in to Yard Sales amazing bbq dip you wouldn’t know the difference. The pizza itself did surprise me, it’s not something I’d usually go for but I enjoyed it. . . . . . . #pizza #yardsalepizza #finsburypark #londonpizza #pizzalover #pizzalovers #londonfoodblogger #londonfoodie #pizzalondon #jessieware #pizzatime🍕 (at Yard Sale) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9y5sVAnU0n/?igshid=1fz7luo9hrgvu

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Ed sheeran songs of 2017 These are songs (not his own) that ed either wrote, wrote on, and/or featured on in 2017. What a year for him!! If I missed any please let me know and I will add them lol.

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Soooooo I just got the BEST hook up for my vinyl collection!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I’ve been looking for a few of these for a long time. Can’t wait to blast these!! #KanyeWest #JamesBlake #JessieWare #Rihanna #FallOutBoy #KatyPerry

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Always amazing & breathtaking @jessieware 💘💘💘 #jessieware #glasshouse #music #anciennebelgique (at Ancienne Belgique - AB)