While Taylor Swift, for a number of good and bad reasons, dominated the news in 2024, her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, seems to have divided opinion with some perhaps seeking a more obviously pop sound than what Swift chose to provide them with.
As such, it was an odd moment when, later in the year, US band Charly Bliss released their album Forever, because it really does sound like the Taylor Swift album that never was. Or the lovechild of everything that was good about John Hughes movies and mid 1980s pop.
In recent years Charly Bliss have moved increasingly away from the bouncy 'bubblegrunge' sound of their earlier releases and, by last year, were hurtling full speed towards planet pop. It's fair to say that Forever and, especially, 'Nineteen' bear the hallmarks of that collision.
An unashamedly romantic, full on pop ballad, 'Nineteen' isn't ashamed to be what it is: A sentimental pop song with a big heart. It was born to be the final slow song at teenage dances, the one you weep to when you break up with your first big love, the one you sing blind drunk on New Years Eve. In short, it was built to soak up your emotions like a sponge and throw them right back at you with stardust and glitter.
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