Taste Test: BILLIE B languishes in love ‘Until We Die’
The soul-pop newcomer dazzles with a gloriously Lana Del Rey-leaning debut single.
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When we’re in it, like really in it, we tell ourselves we’ve never felt a love quite as strong. We just don’t know how it’ll end or even if it ever will. French-Swedish soul-pop upstart BILLIE B (real name Olivia Christina Ciaramella Bergström) lumbers inside such frost-tipped adoration, her voice adhering to a torchy aesthetic and burning the edges of her lyrics, with her debut single. On “Until We Die,” a spooky cathedral tune examining the middle ground of love, a transitional phase after the honeymoon and before it all collapses, the singer-songwriter wanders the pristine walls forged in modern times by Adele and Lana Del Rey. “You and me we are the same / I can read all your desires,” she sings. The cinematic framework rises like concrete towers amidst a star-strew cityscape, and BILLIE B crests the pinnacle of a glorious piece of pop music.
“Until We Die” is the beginning of quite a promising career.
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