Pop singer Giadora has been taking her time stepping into fame. Her first single, “Twisted,” was released in 2019 to more than a warm reception from critics and fans – it lit up almost sixty thousand streams in the wake of its debut, and immediately had the independent press sniffing around for the new and exciting young talent bearing such an exotic moniker. “Naive” followed in 2020 as an even bigger hit with the critics and listeners in the American underground, but in her third single “One Last Thing,” Giadora makes it perfectly clear that being a low-level pop princess in among the indie kids of summer is as far away from being her top priority as it gets.
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“One Last Thing” introduces the world to a more sensitive side of this artist, and skewed with her trademark harmonies, it arrives on record store shelves this September ready to seduce just about anyone who likes surreal pop music with a straightforward lyrical edge. It’s a spellbinding addition to her discography that reveals an urgency within her sound perhaps even more fetching than her creative uniqueness, which, as anyone who has heard her music before already knows, is certainly no small statement for me to make.
Pummeling physicality isn’t something we’ve heard in Giadora’s work so far, but it’s definitely a presence in the backend of this song – even if it’s on the more experimental side of the sonic spectrum. The bass and drum parts are absolutely a lot heavier than I had initially been anticipating they would be, in contrast with the light vocal from our lead singer, but the conflict they start with the execution of the lyrics eventually becomes a flashpoint for catharsis later on in the track.
The mix is ultra-tight and doesn’t leave us wondering where any of the detail within the instrumentation wound up (it’s right here, textured and tangible to all who are listening to the song), sacrificing no intricacies in the name of supplying the audience with unnecessary decadence. That would certainly be the case were some of her big budget counterparts in charge of the direction here rather than Giadora, but alas, the latter ensures nothing so silly takes place in “One Last Thing.” There are so many possibilities for her new composition in a live setting, and judging from this recording, I think it has the potential to be a crowd favorite the next time she gets the chance to test out her setlist in-concert.
If you’re just now finding out about Giadora for the first time, I would recommend checking out her most recent single before you do “Twisted” or “Naive,” if for no other reason than to hear what she can do when there aren’t any limitations put in front of her, creative or otherwise. Pop music’s aesthetical diversification is proving to be unstoppable this September, and for evidence of the underground’s eminence with regards to this genre’s future, you needn’t look any further than “One Last Thing” for satisfaction.
Jodi Marxbury