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Grace Ives “Lazy Day”

Grace Ives’ track for “Lazy Day” sounds urbane and sophisticated in a distinctly mid to late ‘90s way, like the sort of music you’d imagine for a hip but upscale bar in that era. But it’s not a total match as the implied scale of the music feels more small and private, and the sentiment is closer to what we’d call “self care” today. Ives is singing with a lot of self-awareness about being stuck in a cycle – “I got addicted to the hurt, then the healing” – and the song seems to exist in the healing part of all that. She’s just trying to chill out and enjoy herself, to feel comfortable in her body. Every emphasis in this song is on taking every little bit of pleasure available, and as the song moves towards its conclusion she sounds low-key ecstatic and then mildly contented.

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