Saturday, June 10, 2023

Piece By Piece - Katie Melua

Piece By Piece - Katie Melua
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Piece By Piece, 2005
Written by Katie Melua

Title trax!

A modern torch song, slow jazz-pop with strings, a ballad about a broken love affair.  I have never heard of Melua, but the album this song is on went quadruple platinum, Melua is one of the UK's best-selling female artists and she's one of the UK's richest musicians.  So apparently there are enormous lacunae in my musical knowledge?!  I don't pay much attention to this modern stuff, he sniffed, forgetting in his old-feller dotage that 2005 was twenty fucking years ago.  Uh, anyhoo, although the genre isn't my bag, this is a pretty great torch song, with evocative, wistful lyrics; could have been written for Sarah Vaughn or Edith Piaf.  "First of all must fly / My dreams of you and I / There's no point in holding on to those."  Chills!

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