Die A Double Death

Suki Waterhouse “Moves”

“Moves” is a song with a sentiment that should seem entirely self-absorbed – I want something very badly and must separate myself from you to pursue it – but it’s expressed in a way that feels very generous to the person it’s being addressed to. Suki Waterhouse sings it as a big power ballad love song, something that sounds more like the beginning than the end of something. Maybe it’s more like putting something on hold in the hope of eventually having both? But the affection is unmistakable in her vocal, and the attitude of the song is focused on fighting for what she wants to the point that the melancholy in it is pushed beneath the layers of sound in the chorus.

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