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Melanie Masson’s Beautiful New Single – Seasons

Jan 24, 2021 Carmen Lees-Green

Melanie Masson has just released her latest single, ‘Seasons’, a beautiful take on Future Islands’ hit single ‘Seasons (Waiting on you)’, already receiving huge praise from the band’s assist, who deemed it a “Beautiful Version”.

The single comes as a follow up from her acclaimed first single ‘Why Don’t You Love Me?‘. Produced by the renowned producer Tristan Longworth, using only live musicians and instruments, the track showcases Melanie’s beautiful vocal talent and brings us back to a time when music was pure, untampered and beautiful.

Check out the video below!

The beautifully-shot video was created by the critically acclaimed director Simone Lahbib (currently a regular in Eastenders) and sets exactly the type of scene that we wish to return back to post-pandemic! Simone features in the video herself alongside Melanie’s husband and kids. The video was edited and filmed by Rik Argent for Plan Bee Films.

“I loved the melody and lyrics to Seasons and really connected to it. It fel..

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The Beautiful Reality of Beautiful Trauma

Jan 17, 2021 Carmen Lees-Green

One of my absolute all time favourite music videos is Beautiful Trauma by P!nk. The song and video accompany each other so well, whilst the video tells a depressing and all too familiar story for some people.

Starring P!nk herself, and heartthrob Channing Tatum, the video features incredible costume, inspired from the pinup 60s housewife aesthetic. Throughout the whole video, the colour co-ordination matches perfectly, to the outfits and also the emotion being expressed in the video. Overall, extremely satisfying to look at.

The story behind the video is a lot more intriguing. I feel like it has one strong message about the unfortunate reality of abusive relationships, and how men should give their more “feminine side” a chance, be more emotional and feel things from their female counterparts side.

In the video, we are introduced to a simple but unfortunate story – the husband and wife who are clearly unhappy. He is drinking to get through the day, she is taking her pills to get thr..