The Fabrication I’m Capable Of

Anz featuring George Riley “You Could Be”

“You Could Be” sounds like Anz was deliberately trying to write something that could go in some kind of Pop Crush Song Hall of Fame. I think she nails her target here, mainly in how her arrangement nails the proper ratio of effervescent energy and neurotic mania. Lean too far in the former direction and it comes out sounding too ditzy and childish, go too far in the latter direction and you get…well, a lot of the last decade of pop music. But this comes closer to the ideal – “How Will I Know,” “Call Me Maybe” – and taps into the way the low-level anxiety of having a big dumb crush is what makes it suspenseful and fun.

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