Flowerovlove

One Liner: Unremarkable synth pop
Wikipedia Genre: pop, rock, indie pop, indie
Home: London

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 14
Day: Sunday
Both Weekends.

Ladybird Stage at 1:45

Thoughts:  Dangit.  I just want a band that I can jam for a while so that I can get some work done.  Instead, I keep picking things that are either annoying or only have a few songs.  I feel like I have heard all of this lady's songs repeatedly by now, so I need to knock out this review.

Joyce Cisse is a British-Ivorian singer and model.  She won Artist to Watch at the 2022 A&R Awards and New Artist at the 2024 Music Week Women in Music Awards. In 2022, she was named one of VEVO's Artists to Watch and The Forty Five's Future Five, and named Future Artist of the Month by BBC Radio 1 in 2023, so for those who follow those random-ass-sounding awards, she's got some action.  She said One Direction's "Best Song Ever" helped her realize the "power of music… [and] creative visuals", as the group "didn't just release a song, they released a world".  Suuuuure.

Three EPs and no albums, so listening to the catalog gets you a lot of the same songs over and over as they pop back up as singles or remixes or whatever.  Top track is "breaking news," which was a 2024 single that then also popped up on the EP called ache in my tooth.  23.7 million streams.

Sweet little pop nugget of a love song.  The vocals are a little cutesy for me, but that seems to also be the thing that she is shooting for anyway.  I feel like this will be something that I forget in about three minutes. There is also a sped up version of the song, so it was likely a TikTok hit.  Prior to that video, I was treated to a commercial telling me that John Cornyn has voted with Donald Trump 99% of the time and how he makes Texas Great.  How do they think someone searching for a Flowerovlove video would have any interest in that moronic shite?  Idiots.

Only one other song cracks 10 million - "a girl like me" from 2023 also made that recent EP.  But let's go older than that since you already heard a recent tune.  "Malibu" is a 2021 single with 5.7 million streams and a MUCH cooler vibe.

Give me more of that!  Unfortunately, she doesn't.  Her hits are definitely more pop forward and less rap tracks.  Like, her newest single is called "new friends" and it just more generic synth pop.  Sounds kind of like she is trying to be like a Taylor or Chappel vibe.    I don't think I would go see this one.