Taste Test: Stefan Alexander makes one helluva comeback on ‘Thunderclap’
The pop gem makes a long awaited return with his first original single in three years.
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You can survive this life if you’re lucky; it’s something we take for granted far too often. But for queer-pop returnee Stefan Alexander, he doesn’t take any of it lightly. Following his debut single in 2016, he succumbed to a mysteriously debilitating illness that left his body quaking with pain that he had never felt before. His ability to make and perform music slipped from his fingertips for three long years, and he could very well have thrown in the towel right then and there. Now, having walked through the fire and stepped back over threshold into the light, he makes a cannonball splash with his comeback single “Thunderclap.” Through glittering disco-doused synths, he not only stares down his past in bittersweet retaliation but learns to embrace who he is in this moment. “No, this life isn’t easy / But I’m giving it all I got,” he avows on the titanic, Sia-esque hook. It’s the kind of underdog pop gem, complete with a soulful backing choir, that makes you reflect, groove and dance way into the night.
“Thunderclap” follows his cover of No Doubt’s “No Speak” from earlier this year.
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