Christian Medice has spent 9 years writing songs for different individuals to sing. lovelytheband took “Damaged” to primary; P!nk and The Aces recorded the remainder. Good Time is one he’s singing himself.
It’s a track about speaking your self out of a spiral earlier than it begins, dressed up in a hook catchy sufficient to obscure the spiralling. The guitar that opens it may have fallen out of a shoebox of previous cassettes, glassy, barely warped, the type of tone that offers the entire observe a Hollywood-hazed glow, like 1986 remains to be enjoying someplace down the corridor. That riff barely leaves for the remainder of the track, looping beneath each verse like a thought Medice can’t shake, and it’s what offers the observe its pull, a melody easy sufficient to catch on one hear. His voice sits again from the combination, distant and half-dreaming, nearer to a reminiscence of a vocal than a lead one.
Even at its brightest, the track by no means fairly shakes its unease. Uncomfortable in my pores and skin opens the primary verse, and LA caught me slipping follows quick behind it, earlier than the refrain talks him down: I received’t bury my head beneath closet regrets. He repeats it will possibly’t final virtually like a reminder to himself, however as an alternative of resisting the second he leans into it. “Good Time is about reconnecting with the easy pleasure of being collectively,” Medice has mentioned of the observe, and neither facet wins by the tip; the dread and the great excessive simply sit there collectively, unresolved.
Beneath the haze, the beat clips in sharp and digital, giving the entire thing a nervous, present-tense pulse towards all that wistfulness up high. Medice has spent a profession writing different individuals’s summers. This one’s his.
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