Premiere: BOWER bows down to the ‘Queen of the Weekend’ on new song
The rising pop star celebrates one of nightlife’s most mysterious characters.
Nightlife draws out a smorgasbord of wacky characters – from the withering wallflower to the “it’s all good” guy who clearly hasn’t showered in weeks to the bodacious queen who commands the room with a dip and a flourish. Bower should know. He drinks in the effervescent sparkle of bright neons that fall in delicate, sharp patterns across a dive bar’s various clientele, and the work soaks in every trace of it. His new song “Queen of the Weekend,” premiering today, celebrates the queen in all her magnificence. “On a Friday night she’s a perfect storm / Meets her fake friends down on the boulevard / Little white lines, dressed to the nines, better run and hide,” he struts.
There is a slumbering femme fatale way about her, and once dusk descends on town, the darkness is hers to consume. “Well if you’ve got a death wish tonight / You can look into her eyes / Take your best shot, play her favorite song / Be the one to charm the viper’s heart / Once you get a taste, you’re in the deep end / Bow down to the Queen of the Weekend,” Bower tosses up a fistful of cosmic glitter, swirling in funkadelic bursts upon a chewy pop backdrop. He continues to sketch out the full extent of her unexplainable hypnotism on everyone who crosses her spellbound path, “She don’t slow down but everybody stops for her Friday through the weekend turn into a blur / She never goes to sleep till the bees get back to work.”
On the song’s musical vivacity, he writes to B-Sides & Badlands over email: “[The song’s] chic temperament carries the type of fun energy I like to share in my music,” he says. Now in Los Angeles, a promising talent in his own right, Bower combs his jazz studies background to offer a stylized bite to his work. His tapestry is polished, yet it nods to a bygone era, tethered to the ’80s but pushing ever forward into a futuristic soundscape. In his very capable hands, pop music is thriving.
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