{"id":3891,"date":"2021-12-03T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2021-12-03T08:28:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T08:28:53","slug":"single-review-the-rose-michaela-betts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/single-review-the-rose-michaela-betts\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;The Rose&#8221; &#8211; Michaela Betts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Michaela Betts &#8211; The Rose<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Oh. This is beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>It starts off with a sparse arpeggiated piano part, then draws in a cello to give it the necessary bass part.<\/p>\n<p>But then it drops into a beautiful electro synth piece that just gets better and better and better with each listen.<\/p>\n<p>My mate Nick would love this, because the melodic choices are right up his street\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The chromatic notes in the melody just make me shiver.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WOW!<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re no blatant but they\u2019re doing the job.<\/p>\n<p>And what a beautiful job too.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, who\u2019s Michaela Betts?<\/p>\n<p>Well she\u2019s Surrey based, and this is from her debut EP \u201cRipe Fruit\u201d, her sound is described as Nordic Folk Electronic Pop, she has had quite an extraordinary journey so far, having worked as a film soundtrack vocalist and piano player, taught Gina McKee how to play piano for the BBC drama \u201cMothertime\u201d. She has quite the creative pedigree too her father David F Betts is a singer\/songwriter on the folk circuit.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The more I read the more I want to know. Time to go check out her EP.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"737\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_E77C25A6AF6D-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_E77C25A6AF6D-1.jpeg 734w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_E77C25A6AF6D-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_E77C25A6AF6D-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_E77C25A6AF6D-1-60x60.jpeg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: The Rose\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/1mylFlCoFHs6sHWIonAGoK?si=c2d93d86f53b4434&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michaela Betts &#8211; The Rose Oh. This is beautiful. It starts off with a sparse arpeggiated piano part, then draws in a cello to give it the necessary bass part. But then it drops into a beautiful electro synth piece that just gets better and better and better with each listen. My mate Nick would &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,145,174,98,218,30,37,73,150,81,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-cello","category-electronica","category-film","category-folk","category-music","category-piano","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-strings","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3894,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}