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You NEED to listen to: Kate Nash!
:: June 28, 2010 :: by Emilee Lindner (Music Dept. Staff)
Kate Nash has traded in her closet of vintage dresses for black pants and a leather jacket.
Listening to a few minutes into My Best Friend Is You, the transformation can’t be heard. The songs are girly but tough, keeping fans of 2008’s “Foundations” happy.
But when the fourth track (“I Just Love You More”) rolls around, you can tell that Nash wants to push past the image that earned her fame. She lets her vocals loose by screaming, shouting and moaning the title words over and over. The 22-year-old songwriter leaves the interpretation up to the listener – Is the song angry or passionate?
Nash aims beyond the pissy attitude that brought her debut album Made of Bricks to the top of the charts.
She carries on the women's empowerment ideal, calling out homophobes, attacking sex-driven men, all while keeping her music feminine. The love song, “I Hate Seagulls,” at the end of the album, starts off cynical like other songs but ends sweet and sentimental.
It doesn’t matter if My Best Friend Is You gets the same success her first album did. She’s having fun, and you can tell.
“I took the attitude that no one was ever going to hear (the songs). They could be rubbish, they could be the worst songs in the world,” Nash said in an interview with Idolator.com. “As long as I was being creative and enjoying it and writing things I cared about.”
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