Blog: Mixtape Maestro

With it's dream-like symphony of '50's pop twinkle, angelic girl group harmony, and singer-songwriter Emmy The Great' s cutesy baby-doll vocal coating the ears with such cavity-inducing sweetness, a casual listen to "We Almost Had A Baby" will surely have one immersed within the fond remembrances of the pure, naive days of early teen-dom. But once you really tune in beneath it's swaying surface to the words tenderly floating out of Em's mouth, the realization quickly hits that at "Baby"'s center, there's very little actual sweetness being put forth. A deeper dig reveals Emmy to be a [...]

• Emmy The Great - We Almost Had A Baby