![]() Will Adams: “Party woes” is tricky subject matter for pop, as it inevitably references other songs, often to subvert them while indulging in the same tropes of pro-party songs, like thumping bass and signifiers of luxury. And yet, it turns out the 2016 pop training gantlet produces pretty good results, even getting to a sort of dark honesty that some artists would just elide to talk about how much they need a ginger ale. It’s largely business, of course, and Beyonce isn’t exactly plucking them out of obscurity - Chloe and Halle were YouTube stars, Ingrid was a childhood friend and Beem was one of those 13-year-old X Factor auditionees the year’s judges usually send off to the training grounds of… TED talks? And she sounds every bit the ice-bucket-acquainted Upper East Sider groomed for 2016 pop stardom: She’s gotten massed harmonies and performative confidence from Beyonce, disillusionment from Lorde, luxe scene-setting and pop language from Katy Perry and Rihanna, vocal showmanship from Tori Kelly (a condensed, even less charitable equation: Tori Kelly minus TashBed), synth thuds from nu-house and, from the market, a patina of “alt” over even all this. Katherine St Asaph: Under-reported, because certain people would rather wank to the mountaintops about just how much Panda Bear contributed to Lemonade, is Beyonce’s cohort, via Parkwood Entertainment, of female protegees like Chloe and Halle, rapper Ingrid and Sophie Beem. ![]() Protege #1: “ More than just your average New York City Alpha girl, 16 year old Sophie Beem has no qualms about delivering hard hitting rhymes that strafe her U.E.S. Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).
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