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San Francisco Chronicle
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Olivia Dean to bring soft British pop to S.F.
When she was in elementary school, Olivia Dean was so nervous while performing in her school's production of 'Annie' that she began crying on stage mid-show. Now, at the age of 26, she breezes through a show in front of thousands on the regular. Though the 'Nice To Each Other' singer-songwriter grew up under the musical influence of artists such as Lauryn Hill, Amy Winehouse and Carole King, she took baby steps to growing comfortable in the spotlight. She began musical theater lessons as a young teen and participated in a gospel choir. Once she started writing songs at 16, she taught herself guitar and piano, and eventually performed at her graduation concert. Dean has since gone on to release a full length album, 'Messy,' in 2023 and has a second on the way in September. She has amassed a loyal following with her soft pop tunes and is scheduled to perform at the Warfield in San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 3.
Perth Now
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Olivia Dean's new album inspired by Carrie Bradshaw
Olivia Dean's new album is inspired by Sex And The City character Carrie Bradshaw. The 26-year-old singer has revealed that the fictional character, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, served as a big inspiration for The Art Of Loving. She told The Sun on Sunday newspaper's Bizarre column: "I'd never seen Sex And The City before, and started watching it from the beginning. I have been living my Carrie moment – her influence will be there." Olivia also revealed that one particular song on the new album focuses on relationship struggles. She shared: "Something In Between is about when you are between being with somebody and not, and you are like, 'I don't want to just have you in my life, like now we are not supposed to talk?'" Olivia released her debut album, Messy, back in 2023. The singer previously explained that the record explored the experience of falling in love again after a break-up. She told TimeOut: "It's a messy road and I've become quite hardened. My heart has got a hard case." The album featured the single Ladies Room, which was inspired by a drunk conversation that she overheard in the toilets on a night out. Olivia explained: "I was just in the cubicle peeing and I overheard this lady talking. "She was like, 'Girls, if I could give you any advice, never go out with a man who's 20 years your senior.' I recorded her because I thought it was hilarious. "The song originally had her voice at the beginning, but it's illegal to record people. I was in the toilet queue before, so I don't know how to find her. Wherever you are out there, you're my inspiration!" Meanwhile, Olivia also revealed that therapy has helped her to overcome her self-doubts. The singer shared: "There was a big chunk of time where I was in a pattern of being very self-critical – to the point where you just feel so s*** about yourself, comparing your beginning point to everyone else's finished product. "That is just the thief of joy. I was honestly in quite a depressive state. I got out of it: I've been doing therapy and learning how I function and what environment I function best in. Therapy is awesome."
New York Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Nine Inch Nails Revisits the '80s, and 9 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs. Nine Inch Nails: 'As Alive as You Need Me to Be' 'As Alive as You Need to Be' explains why Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross reclaimed the Nine Inch Nails name for their latest film score, 'Tron: Ares.' It's a complete song and a return to the buzz-bomb synthesizers, stomping march beat, stereo ricochets and gut-wrenching vocals of the band's heyday — quite suitable, in its late-1980s impact, for the latest sequel to 'Tron,' the 1982 movie based on the videogame. The refrain might be a breakthrough for an artificial intelligence: 'I can finally feel.' FKA twigs: 'Perfectly' FKA twigs is still in dance-club mode for this track from 'Deluxua,' the expanded version of her 'Eusexua' album released in January. She chases euphoria — 'Inside my head I have the best time' — over a transparent but insistent house beat topped with ghostly keyboards. Singing delicately but not hesitantly, she's melting into the moment. Olivia Dean: 'Lady Lady' On 'Lady Lady,' the English pop-soul songwriter Olivia Dean faces change with a little nostalgia and a little hope. 'She's always changing me without a word,' Dean sings, adding, 'I was just getting used to her.' Sumptuous keyboards and gently encouraging backup vocals tip the balance toward optimism: 'Now we know that dream ain't coming true / There's room for something new.' Hermanos Gutiérrez featuring Leon Bridges: 'Elegantly Wasted' It's just a guess, but perhaps Leon Bridges was listening to the lilt of a minor-key bolero when he came up with the phrase 'elegantly wasted' and built a bolero-meets-soul song around it. The rhythm of that refrain meshes with the guitars and rhythm section of Hermanos Gutiérrez — usually an instrumental band, but now supplying backup vocals — while Bridges steers the song toward physical longing: 'Show me how to taste it,' he pleads. Amanda Shires: 'A Way It Goes' Retro sounds conjure bitter memories on Amanda Shires's 'A Way It Goes.' A hollow version of a girl-group beat, a distant surf-guitar twang and hovering strings are the backdrop as Shires recalls a shattering heartbreak: She was divorced from the songwriter Jason Isbell in March after a 10-year marriage. 'I could tell you I felt like I was dying / Hugged my knees to my chest crying, I couldn't stop,' she sings. But while the pain is still vivid, so is her determination to leave it behind — to find herself, a year later, 'flying happily ever after the aftermath.' Jeff Tweedy: 'Out in the Dark' 'Where do we stop? Where do we start?' Jeff Tweedy asks in 'Out in the Dark,' a song about the mysterious nature of creativity from a triple album, 'Twilight Override,' arriving in September. There are echoes of Bob Dylan's 'John Wesley Harding' album in Tweedy's calmly strummed acoustic guitar and the understated drums (by his son Spencer Tweedy). But like Tweedy's main band, Wilco, the production lets other sounds sneak in to transform things. Robert Plant and Saving Grace: 'Everybody's Song' Robert Plant has been making music with Saving Grace, his current band, since they gathered in England during the pandemic. The debut album they'll release in September is expected to include songs from sources as disparate as Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie Johnson and Moby Grape, along with this track from the indie-rock duo Low, 'Everybody's Song.' Plant and his band heard through the guitar noise of the original version to its kinship with the North African modal drones he loves, and they changed the beat to triple time. But they held on to the drama in the choruses, as Plant and the singer Suzi Dian harmonize on 'Breaking everybody's heart / Tearing everyone apart.' Sheryl Crow: 'The New Normal' Over a brawny, swinging riff, Sheryl Crow lambastes lies, the president, algorithms, artificial intelligence and more in 'The New Normal.' Her band, the Real Lowdown, bristles with spy-movie guitar lines as Crow assesses America in 2025: 'If the news is fake and fear is hate and nothing's immoral / To the leader of the free world — then welcome to the new normal.' Water from Your Eyes: 'Playing Classics' Water from Your Eyes — the genre-twisting duo of Nate Amos and Rachel Brown — offers some decidedly skewed disco in 'Playing Classics.' High-hat offbeats provide the disco through-line, but gnarled little riffs from guitar and keyboards rarely land where expected — at least not for long. Meanwhile, Brown deadpans thoughts like, 'Take that long hard road from here to the truth.' Sam Prekop: 'Light Shadow' Sam Prekop, the Chicago musician who sings and plays guitar in the band the Sea and Cake, has devoted most of his solo albums to instrumental pieces for modular synthesizers. 'Light Shadow,' from an album due in September, has a one-chord foundation and a restless, metronomic pulse, but Prekop layers on an ever-shifting array of keyboard patterns, emergent melodies and textural shifts. His minimalism spills over with ideas. Blood Orange featuring Caroline Polachek, Lorde and Mustafa: 'Mind Loaded' Here's an ultra-moody indie-star collaboration that pretends to transparency but must have been a recording feat. Blood Orange — the songwriter Dev Hynes — sets up a chord progression and brings in guests to, as the song says, 'help me on my way.' They oblige, harmonizing with him or singing 'Everything means nothing to me' — is that Lorde? — and reappearing when a mechanical trap beat arrives partway through. It's as short as a pop song but far more mutable, and deliberately inconclusive.
Time Out
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Olivia Dean Sydney show: Tickets, times, presale and everything you need to know
We're Big Fans of Olivia Dean – and we reckon you are too – so we're stoked to let you know the British singer-songwriter behind soulful bangers 'OK, Love You Bye', 'Dive' and 'Nice to Each Other' is heading Down Under for a one-off show in Sydney this November. It'll be Dean's only Aus show (that we know of) – meaning you should not sleep on this one. Dean said in a statement on Instagram: 'Aus we're coming back for a special one.' Yeehaw! OK, let's dive right in. Here's everything we know so far about Olivia Dean's Sydney show. When is Olivia Dean's Sydney show? Olivia Dean's Sydney show is going down on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7pm. It's the only show happening in Sydney – and in Australia (that we know of). Woohoo! Where is Olivia Dean's Sydney show? Olivia Dean's Sydney show will be at Fleet Steps, Mrs Macquaries Point in the Royal Botanic Garden, with Sydney Harbour as the backdrop. How's that for a venue? When do Olivia Dean Sydney tickets go on sale? General tickets for Olivia Dean Sydney go on sale at 10am local time on Wednesday, July 23. Is there an Olivia Dean pre-sale for her Sydney show? You betcha. Though, to get your hands on pre-sale tickets, you'll need to pre-order Dean's album The Art of Loving from her Australian store before July 21. You'll then get access to pre-sale tickets. Pre-sale begins at 10am on Monday, July 21. Supporting your fave artist and securing a ticket? Sounds good to us. How much are Olivia Dean Sydney tickets? Tickets to Olivia Dean's Sydney show start at $139.90 per person.
RTÉ News
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Singer Olivia Dean: I feel very comfortable by myself
Singer Olivia Dean said she realised her music career was a success when she heard a band play a cover of her song in Bangkok. Dean, who recently collaborated with Sam Fender on his song Rein Me In, said she is still getting used to being recognised when she is out in public. In an interview with Elle UK, she spoke of her trip to Thailand, saying: "We did a show there in February and went to a bar afterward. The band was playing my track, Dive. I was like: 'No way! This is crazy. I'm in a bar in Bangkok and they're doing a cover of my song.'" The singer, whose debut album Messy was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2023, said she has become "protective" of herself in recent years. "I don't take any sh*t from people," she told the magazine. "Definitely not as much as I would have done when I was younger. I know my worth and how I deserve to be loved. I have no time for bul*****." Describing the inspiration behind her next album, Dean added: "Love is something that can feel quite mystical. It's this thing we all crave but aren't taught how to do it properly. Why don't we have a module at school? "So, the album was just me zooming into that and looking at the last two years of my life and everything I've learned until now." But Dean, who wrote the song It Isn't Perfect But It Might Be for the Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy soundtrack, said she feels "very comfortable by myself and don't feel like I need to be in a relationship to survive". "It should be additional as opposed to filling an absence," she added. Dean, who appears on a special digital cover of Elle UK, told the magazine: "I try to work with as many women as possible because I feel comfortable in that space. "Feminism to me is about being equal – and I've always felt completely equal to men."
