oFF THE BACK OF HER STELLAR gLASTONBURY PERFORMANCE … WE DELVE INTO the pop sauce of the summer.
The Good Witch – Maisie’s second – sees a contorted take on a break-up with her head held up high as opposed to crying in the bathtub. If anything then, it was the perfect opening for a pop-tastic Friday, as she brought an infectious energy, feel-good bops and tongue-and-cheek words of wisdom.
“So in case you guys didn’t already know, I dropped my album today,” Maisie declared to the Worthy Farm crowd, which was received with rapturous applause. And quite right so. Stupendously addictive Lost The Breakup leads the fray as Maisie starts to form the mold as an English counterpart to Taylor Swift. Fellow successor of Body Better has echoic instrumentals that mirrors that of Healey’s adored, airy dream-pop – “loving you was easy, that’s why it’s hurts now.”
Somehow, a broken heart feels good in a place like this. It seems a complete a detox of emotions was just what the pop-idled crowd wanted to start their Friday at Glastonbury. Punchy Coming of Age is a rebellious anecdote to getting over someone you loved – and questioning the very reason as to why you loved them in the first place – “If it was a first kiss, how come it felt like a snakebite?
It may be a checklist overused in the world of pop, but it’s a checklist that rarely fails, as a roster of heartbroken twenty-somethings will always lap up to heart-ache anthems. Luckily, Maisie was just the tip of the pop world weighing in on proceedings at this years’ festival. The innagural Call Me Maybe star, Carly Rae Jepsen performed over at the Other Stage, with a promise of releasing new music later in the year. While Glaswegian synth-maestros CHRVCHES revelled on the same stage a little later.
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