I Let Somebody Bury Me

Foxes “Growing on Me”

“Growing on Me” starts off with a tone halfway between the euphoria-chasing bopping of Carly Rae Jepsen and the very particular wholesome energy of Maggie Rogers, and honestly, that odd little pop cocktail would be enough to be appealing and interesting to me. The song gets genuinely surprising as it shifts gears into the chorus and moves into a guitar riff that seems to slash and grind backwards against the beat, adding unexpected tension to an otherwise light song and serving as an unusual contrast with Foxes’ bright tone and optimistic sentiment. But then it makes some thematic sense – she’s saying someone has grown on her and she was afraid to admit it, and that riff feels like the resistance she had to move through to get to this more open-hearted feeling.

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