She’s Happy Like My Birthday

Metronomy “Salted Caramel Ice Cream”

“Salted Caramel Ice Cream” is a crush song, but it’s specifically about being into someone who is just a bit out of your league. She’s fancy, she’s a bit posh. She’s aspirational. Joseph Mount sings the song with a cheeky tone – he’s a bit breathy in a campy way, but not enough to make his lust a joke. (Though he’s certainly laughing at himself there.) The song is as light and bubbly as the Perrier he references at the start, and his vocal spikes the sweetness of it all with a salty kick of self-awareness, just like the treat that gives the song its name. It’s so fun and flirty that you can sort of miss that for a good portion of the song he’s stressing out about making eye contact with her and screwing it all up.

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