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Beabadoobee “Care”

“Care” has the dynamics of early to mid ’90s alt-rock but has the shiny polish of late ’90s/early ’00s mainstream rock – the vocal tone conveys softness and earnestness rather than aggression and irony, and when the guitar gets crunchy and loud it’s rendered with a styled gloss rather than blunt force. Beabadoobee is aiming for a romanticized Hollywood sound here and nails it, right on down to the vague sense of triumph as the song moves along. The sentiment of this song is extremely teenage – “I’m misunderstood and alienated and none of you actually care about me, but I will get through this!!!” – but it’s real and pure, and the song has just enough self-aware brattiness to it to keep it from getting too self-pitying.

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