The Singles Jukebox

How your singer-songwriters are launched today: “I am so thankful to Doritos…“

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Katherine St Asaph: If you’d told me seven years ago that in 2014 the dominant singer-songwriter instruments wouldn’t be solo piano or solo acoustic guitar but handclaps and percussion, I’d have wanted to skip to the future right away. Some future. Sarah McLachlan circa 1993 would have foregrounded the distortion. 
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Thomas Inskeep: Wikipedia says this song “showcases lush acoustics and folk-driven vocal [sic].” Recommended for people who find Sara Bareilles too edgy. What utter twee bullshit. 
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Alfred Soto: He should have lit a fire under her. 
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Will Adams: The pregnant pauses between verse and chorus suggest something major is about to happen, but instead there’s just a slight uptick in momentum. “The Fire” is pretty, but the effort for a slow-burning build flattened the dynamics.
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Anthony Easton: It would have been a lot safer if he put out a fire in front of her. That would be totally romantic. I would marry someone if they did.
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Brad Shoup: Less a song than an extended round, “The Fire” is recorded well — those claps pop from the background — but at a slower tempo than a swoon demands. The guitar counterpoint in the refrain yearns to be an earworm, but this is a vocal showcase, alas.
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