{"id":5558,"date":"2023-06-24T19:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2023-06-24T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T19:38:32","slug":"single-review-boys-like-you-charlotte-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/24\/single-review-boys-like-you-charlotte-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Boys Like You&#8221; &#8211; Charlotte Lawrence"},"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 title=\"Spotify Embed: Boys Like You\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/3MZeBZsYFViZ5OchHkv7NM?si=kuUMtmSPRSSB8XihtkeqaA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"739\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-24-at-20.36.10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-24-at-20.36.10.jpeg 749w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-24-at-20.36.10-300x296.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-24-at-20.36.10-61x60.jpeg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This song is lyrical genius. To be fair I thought it was a song about a boy and boys being like that one particular one.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But no, there\u2019s an ambiguity in the song, and it is the theme as let\u2019s face it dating in the 21st century is complex. I know. I dated in the 20th century and that in itself was full of angst and not knowing what to do with those feelings if they\u2019re not truly replicated, and as this is pride month&#8230; well my stance is love is love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The song is straight out indie pop, and I love the musicianship on it, especially the drums as they are punchy &#8211; the guitar work on this leads the way, the beginning playing the IV I V VI and sometimes substituting the V with a semitone up to the VI.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s bloody brilliant.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Lawrence is from a family that is a force to be reckoned with.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Well her dad is Bill Lawrence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What do you mean who?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Go look him up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, THAT Bill Lawrence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her Mum is Christa Miller &#8211; fantastic actress and a lady with KILLER music taste.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s been supported by Zach Braff and Donald Faison on their Fake Doctors Real Friends podcast and they\u2019ve known her since she was a baby as she was a frequent visitor to the Scrubs set.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I expect big things from Ms Lawrence.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song is lyrical genius. To be fair I thought it was a song about a boy and boys being like that one particular one.\u00a0 But no, there\u2019s an ambiguity in the song, and it is the theme as let\u2019s face it dating in the 21st century is complex. I know. I dated in the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5559,"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":[191,118,129,52,30,180,140,177,73,150,287,243,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-bass","category-drums","category-guitar","category-music","category-pop","category-review","category-rock","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-u-s","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}