REVIEW: Wednesday by SADGITTARIASS
SADGITTARIASS is every hyperpop fan’s dream: contagious hooks drenched in sparkling autotune, beats that reverberate inside the body and lyrical reminiscences of romance, dancefloors and freedom. The artwork of SADGITTARIASS’s debut single Wednesday represents the vibrancy and intricacy of this pop princess’s arresting musical style and image. She is not to be underestimated; hyperpop may be glossy and glittery on the surface, but underneath brews sophisticated lyrics, thoughtful production and savvy roots. SADGITTARIASS has been a dab hand at making demos since the tender age of fourteen. She is a perennial lyric writer by nature and, in Wednesday, her sleek, spicy narrative marries deliciously with the production of Manchester’s JB Thomas. SADGITTARIASS and Thomas met, aptly, at a Charli XCX concert and their fusion sparked Wednesday, a “make-up anthem” for the lockdown era. Thomas’s “metallic, electronic toy shop beats'' establish the single as an irrefutable dancefloor-filler; SADGITTARIASS’s playfully autotuned vocals sound as though they are bouncing, in scintillating shards, off the disco ball.
SADGITTARIASS’s vocal flair steals the show in Wednesday; an effortless, trilly and unrelenting delivery evokes a heady atmosphere of intimacy, strobe lights and sweat. The listener will automatically long for somewhere hot, sweet and steamy where they can dance the difficulties of lockdown away with a past lover. SADGITTARIASS is heavily inspired by her adventures in Ibiza, the clubbing paradise woven into the spirited mood of Wednesday.
Wednesday’s bubbly synthesisers create stunning frisson when paired with the song’s emotive lyrical motifs, including: “Come here, tell me all your secrets, baby…” This particular refrain arouses a palpable atmosphere of intimacy; SADGITTARIASS poignantly captures the feeling of sensual connection to another person despite being crushed in a crowd of innumerable bodies.
Another shimmering lyric features in the second verse and the bridge of Wednesday: “When you touch me, I feel so electric” is catapulted into the instrumentation’s intoxicating cosmos by SADGITTARIASS’s alternate, melismatic melody. In the track’s chorus, the leitmotif of the effervescent synthesiser marks this recurring touch cleverly. Wednesday’s unexpected, pared-back section at the end of the track gently hammers home that, above all, SADGITTARIASS is celebrating exhilarating, galvanic love.
SADGITTARIASS’s tremulously strong vocal style will be the galaxy of hyperpop’s summer crush. Wednesday flawlessly adopts the spunkiness and unapologetic provocative undertones of Slayyyter and takes the aural aesthetic of Kim Petras a thousand steps further. The track represents an inimitable, blindingly bright moment in time: two lovers melding together in the midst of lonely chaos, their romance forever studded with jewels.
SADGITTARIASS’s vivacious leap into the universe of hyperpop will surely establish her as one of its most coruscating stars.
© Melissa Julianne Severn 2021
Listen to Wednesday:
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