{"id":4563,"date":"2022-04-22T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2022-04-22T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T09:40:15","slug":"single-review-under-the-lights-bad-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/22\/single-review-under-the-lights-bad-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Under The Lights&#8221; &#8211; Bad Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F-435x435.jpg 435w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2F34F5E7-BAA0-4860-8586-1375E419984F-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This new single from one of my favourite acts of the last couple of years is quite frankly refreshing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s in the key of A Flat, which is an uplifting key anyway when you hear it, and probably not my choice of key to write in, but then it\u2019s not my song! The vocals really handle it well, and I like the way that the vocals are sung in unison and an octave up &#8211; the temptation to harmonise must have been hard<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>to resist! I know that I found myself attempting to harmonise with it as well!<\/p>\n<p>Nice guitar solo at 2:55! Love that tone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sound is typical of Bad Money\u2019s combination of catchy synth pop and great melodies, the vocals really stand out for me on this as well as a beautiful chorus.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Production wise this is on the money, 80s vibes with 21st century style, great synths in the intro I love that bell synth sound.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the song has a great upbeat vibe, the kind of song you\u2019d expect to hear on the radio, very friendly on the ears and worth more than one listen!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first time Bad Money came into my life was with \u201cAshes\u201d, a classic pop tune that really stood out for me.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bad Money are a quartet from Birmingham, , made up of Ben Williams, Jacob Jenkins, Kieran Smith and Tommy Francis. They have worked hard on self-producing their 1st collection of material to bring to audiences throughout 2020\/21 and at the core remains catchy melodies, new-wave synths and funky riffs coupled with hard hitting pop production. <\/p>\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: Under The Lights\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"80\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/75hUoz0ehMjW7Z2UhrAfCB?si=386f4fec5d4e40c8&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new single from one of my favourite acts of the last couple of years is quite frankly refreshing.\u00a0 It\u2019s in the key of A Flat, which is an uplifting key anyway when you hear it, and probably not my choice of key to write in, but then it\u2019s not my song! The vocals really &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4564,"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":[191,40,174,30,180,149,140,150,175,183,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-dance","category-electronica","category-music","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-review","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-synthesizers","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","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=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}