The fact that we didn’t witness Birdy’s every move in making the genuine and considered effort that is ‘Fire Within’, doesn’t mean she shouldn’t take her place in the pop pantheon. That’s something we don’t get time to register with ‘X Factor’ megastars such as One Direction, whose urgent poppiness feels like a bombardment. This collection of touching originals reveals Birdy’s listening habits and, more importantly, her personality. With talent like that on hand, ‘Fire Within’ was never going to be a terrible album – but has the music industry machine managed to produce some more than mediocre here?
Further into the album, ‘Words as a Weapon’ shows off melancholy violins and plucked mandolin that were undoubtedly inspired by her co-writer, Mumford And Sons’ Ben Lovett.Īs well as Lovett, Birdy has had Ryan Tedder (who’s written for Beyoncé) helping out, along with Muse producer Rich Costey and Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford. With this second LP, however, the songstress proves she’s more than just a voice. There are touches of Coldplay’s epicness in the sweeping chords of opener and single ‘Wings’ and hints of Adele’s range on the gutsy ‘All You Never Say’. New Episodes are not coming out until November 2016, But it has a reference from the. Each day, she awakens in virtual reality to create a world for herself, yet in real life, Rin's comatose body floats through the universe, forever trapped inside a virtual simulation she will never wake up from.
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These reproductions were perfectly pleasant, but there was nothing of Birdy in the record other than her vocals. Rin, a 17-year-old girl, lives inside a futuristic simulator in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Then, in 2011, she released her eponymous debut album on Atlantic, on which she swooned through a cover of The XX’s ‘Shelter’, sung a strained version of Bon Iver’s ‘Skinny Love’ and put her own sombre imprint on ‘1901’ by Phoenix. Aged just 12, she won Future Music Management’s (untelevised) ‘Open Mic UK’ competition. Birdy, aka Jasmine van den Bogaerde, kept her profile comparatively low when she began her career in 2008. But that process still happens behind the scenes as much as it does on TV.
It’s hard to remember a time when talent shows weren’t such a huge part of popular culture: when we rarely used to see the painstaking process of manufacturing a pop star.
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