Not far from where songwriter Emily Warren lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, there’s a dive bar with a weekly disco night.
“It’s kind of a shit show,” she says. She had been attending regularly and invited collaborators Ian Kirkpatrick and Caroline Ailin to join her. It was early 2019, and the pair had just gotten to town to start writing some songs for Dua Lipa’s sophomore album.
“The next morning, we woke up, and were like, ‘We have to make a disco song. It’s the most fun to dance to.
“It’s kind of a shit show,” she says. She had been attending regularly and invited collaborators Ian Kirkpatrick and Caroline Ailin to join her. It was early 2019, and the pair had just gotten to town to start writing some songs for Dua Lipa’s sophomore album.
“The next morning, we woke up, and were like, ‘We have to make a disco song. It’s the most fun to dance to.
- 7/7/2020
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
The soft glamor of Jessie Ware’s What’s Your Pleasure? radiates with the persistence of a sparkling disco ball in a foggy club. It’s melancholic luxury, like heavy drops of mascara-stained tears. It is also, undeniably, the British pop star’s best album yet: a sumptuous tribute to both peak- and post-disco as well as the black, brown and LGBTQ people the genre resonated with most deeply.
On Pleasure, the best songs sound like the final breath of euphoria before the harsh glow of the bar’s fluorescent...
On Pleasure, the best songs sound like the final breath of euphoria before the harsh glow of the bar’s fluorescent...
- 7/2/2020
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
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