Tracks I Liked: Love Me 4 Me, Tokyo Love Hotel, STFU!

Rina Sawayama is an amazing pop songwriter. Her melodies are gorgeous and her hooks are earworms. Her singing is tailor-made for pop music and is further highlighted by the production. The production on this is tight and crisp with barely any misses. Sawayama wears her influences on her sleeve with nods to Carly Rae Jepsen, Britney Spears and Evanescence. This is the type of early 2000s wave that I can get behind. She also uses her heritage ... read more