This is certainly a great time for Pop Music with a capital 'P'. This isn't really what this particular blog specialises in but I can always appreciate a good tune aimed at a more mainstream market when I hear one. And there's plenty of that around, whether your thing is Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Lizzo or this.
Women mostly because women seem to do this stuff much better than men right now. That's really nothing new, the legacy for this big bright Pop thing goes way back, certainly to the early Eighties where Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benetar and the early Kim Wilde took the lead from the groundwork laid by Debbie Harry in the previous decade.
Apt, as Australia's Olympia seems to take much of her inspiration from sparkling chart New Wave. Nothing wrong with that. It was one of the finest moments in Rock and Roll history. These four come from her latest album Flamingo. Slightly formulaic at times but a lot of great music was production line stuff going back to the heyday of Motown and Spector. Olympia certainly understands that particular principle.
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