{"id":4297,"date":"2022-02-12T21:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2022-02-12T21:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T21:00:25","slug":"single-review-butterflies-sophie-dorsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/02\/12\/single-review-butterflies-sophie-dorsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Butterflies&#8221; &#8211; Sophie Dorsten"},"content":{"rendered":"\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: Butterflies\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" style=\"[object Object]\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7s13xdEPgz1in2M0MRiJNN?si=a3b4b80ffd6e419d&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Sophie Dorsten is back with a gorgeous new single, \u201cButterflies\u201d and changes gear slightly with this.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, it\u2019s a little more bluesy in my ears to her previous tracks and has a little more soul.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One thing I\u2019ve always liked about Sophie is that she doesn\u2019t compromise with her lyrics. This is no different.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf butterflies could escape from my mind,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What would they do?<\/p>\n<p>Where would they go?<\/p>\n<p>If my head could ever get some rest what would I do?<\/p>\n<p>Where would I go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her lyrics are a diary, a love letter to herself like my favourite song of 2021 \u201cTomorrow\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>This song has got a gospel flavour to it, played in 6\/8 time, led on the guitar, arpeggiated then in chord form strumming on the 2 and 4 later. This is something that comes from the old Motown\/blues styles of the early 60s and Sophie does it beautifully here.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was written with her brother Alex, and their partnership is pretty solid! Great songs great lyrics\u2026. I cannot wait to see how it goes!<\/p>\n<p>Sophie is a young singer songwriter from Arizona, who\u2019s got the distinction of being vocal coach at Alice Cooper\u2019s music school, she\u2019s also known as the #littleblondegirlbigvoice<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh she can sing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So beautifully.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Finals2019c2-1024x703.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Finals2019c2-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Finals2019c2-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Finals2019c2-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Finals2019c2-87x60.jpg 87w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Finals2019c2.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Dorsten is back with a gorgeous new single, \u201cButterflies\u201d and changes gear slightly with this. For one thing, it\u2019s a little more bluesy in my ears to her previous tracks and has a little more soul.\u00a0 One thing I\u2019ve always liked about Sophie is that she doesn\u2019t compromise with her lyrics. This is no &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"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":[161,73,150,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","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=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}