{"id":6588,"date":"2024-08-04T19:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2024-08-13T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T19:15:48","slug":"totdevergreen-time-erica-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/totdevergreen-time-erica-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;Evergreen Time&#8221; &#8211; Erica Jean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7zvZuPNoaQ0JNcHNZJwIY0?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n<p>This one starts off with a warped electric piano playing a progression that sounds like it\u2019s been passed through old tape.. great effect! Add to it finger snaps that have a ping pong delay on it.. it gives it a real blues\/soul vibe! Add strings to it then you\u2019re away. This has such a summery vibe to it, the chord change reminds me a little bit of 70s R&amp;B, I get the feeling that Erica Jean has been influenced a little bit by Minnie Riperton &#8211; there&#8217;s a good reason for that comparison and I&#8217;ll come back to that.<\/p>\n<p>This song takes you on a bit of a journey, reflecting on what seems like a holiday romance &#8211; the cover of the single kind of reinforces this because there&#8217;s a couple n the beach in the sunset.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I really want to talk about is Erica&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p>This is on a slow burn like she&#8217;s warming up, on each change in the song, and then she absolutely blows my mind with one thing and that&#8217;s what sold me on this song.<\/p>\n<p>Is that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Is she..?<\/p>\n<p>No.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No way.<\/p>\n<p>Whistle pitch?<\/p>\n<p>Possibly\u2026<br \/><br \/>What a tune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Type__TypeElement-sc-goli3j-0 cHsoWR\" data-encore-id=\"type\">Erica Jean is a singer songwriter from the Midlands and her Spotify says she&#8217;s probably dressed in pink and being weird in public.<\/p>\n<p data-encore-id=\"type\">I can relate to that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-encore-id=\"type\">\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one starts off with a warped electric piano playing a progression that sounds like it\u2019s been passed through old tape.. great effect! Add to it finger snaps that have a ping pong delay on it.. it gives it a real blues\/soul vibe! Add strings to it then you\u2019re away. This has such a summery &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6589,"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":[191,118,181,129,52,139,31,132,30,185,153,37,180,149,73,150,175,287,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative","category-bass","category-blues","category-drums","category-guitar","category-jazz","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-neo-soul","category-percussion","category-piano","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-soul","category-track-of-the-day","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588","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=6588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6588\/revisions\/6590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}