Empress Of, Kiss Me | Track Review 🎵

Pop singer/songwriter Empress Of taps Japanese-British singer/songwriter Rina Sawayama for the assist on her marvelous first single of 2023, “Kiss Me”

“Kiss me, kiss me slowly, slowly / Whisper, whisper, show me / Show me / That I’m your one and only.” Aww 🥰, so romantic, 🎙 Empress Of (Lorely Rodriguez)! The Honduran American pop musician returns strong in 2023 with her single, 🎵 “Kiss Me”.  Notably, Rodriguez taps the talented 🎙 Rina Sawayama for the assist, and what an assist it is! Rodriguez and Sawayama wrote “Kiss Me” alongside 🎼✍ Kyle Shearer, Nate Campany, and BJ Burton. 🎛 Valley Girl (Campany and Shearer) produced this sweet B-O-P. 

One of the key features, instrumentally of “Kiss Me” is the piano 🎹. Have keys ever sounded lovelier? The production sounds warm, fitting for an amorous cut.  Empress Of delivers fabulous vocals throughout the record.  Her tone and upper register sound particularly lovely. It doesn’t hurt that the melodies are tuneful throughout, as well as the fact that “Kiss Me” has a clearly defined form (verse/pre-chorus/chorus). Empress Of takes first blood, performing the first verse, pre-chorus, and chorus. She asserts in the first verse, “If this is love, I’ll settle down / Just tell me to,” following up in the pre-chorus, “Just touch my lips and pull my hair / To come with you, I’d go anywhere.” WOO! Rina Sawayama echoes similar sentiments in the second verse, singing, “And when I breathe, I’m breathin’ life / Into our wings.” She sings the final pre-chorus, before joining forces with Empress Of in the final chorus.  It’s followed up by one final section, the outro, which is S-W-E-E-T.  All in all, Empress Of is definitely an empress when it comes to 🎵 “Kiss Me”. “Kiss Me” is DEFINITELY worth adding to the listening rotation, PERIOD!

🎙 Empress Of • 🎵 “Kiss Me” • 🏷 Major Arcana / Giant Music • 🗓 9.25.23

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