The Singles Bar: Michaela May’s got you ‘Hook, Line & Sinker’

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When someone’s got you, they got you ⎯⎯ as Bebe Rexha eyes on her own smashing wrecking ball blast, “I Got You.” Pop up and comer Michaela May flips the script, however, with her own dashing new entry “Hook, Line & Sinker,” a synth-smothered mid-tempo unraveling a lover whose reeled her in, an unexpected catch of the day, so to speak. “You got that thing, that real thing, that makes me want to swerve to the next lane,” she whispers, slinky and burning. “You got me feeling weak,” she later concedes, as her voice falls away into puffs of classic ’80s production, which has become her signature touchstone.

“Hook, Line & Sinker” screams with yearning, adorned with a lite tropical wave like pineapple slices on the seashell-strewn beaches of an escape somewhere out west. “I’ve always loved the phrase,” she says of the song title, “and thought it would be a more unique way to express the feeling when someone has you completely and utterly by the heartstrings. I wanted to write a happy, summer song that would hopefully make people feel good, as the constant news cycle throughout this past year has been incredibly upsetting and depressing.”

May, whose 2017 EP Rogue remains on consistent loop in our earbuds, has a brand that’s both as throwback as it is contemporary. Her music glistens and has a way of luring you in, unawares and entranced by the glitter of beats and grooves on grooves on grooves. “I wanted to write an anthem for the summer, a song that helps people escape and makes them feel excited about their life, significant other, family, anything,” she allows. “I just wanted to bring a bit of sunshine into a world that always seems enveloped by darkness.”

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