Here We Are Again

Drama “Monte Carlo”

“Monte Carlo” absolutely sparkles with a piano and groove-centric arrangement that sounds like the sort of opulent splendor suggested by the title. Drama, also true to their name, use this as the foundation for a song about romantic angst and hesitation, with Via Rosa singing wistfully about an on-again/off-again with someone everyone warned her about from the start. The song comes together to feel like an aspirational sort of melancholy, an entanglement that’s as fun and exciting as it is emotionally taxing. The song just lets you luxuriate in the sadness, never letting you forget how much of the pain is driven by pleasure.

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