Lissy Taylor - “Fierce”
So far, the most difficult part about running this blog is having to sit on a song until its release date. But we are finally allowed to show you this one and this is what it sounds like when a singer is confident enough to know that music will be her entire future. Lissy Taylor’s new track, “Fierce,” has all the right parts in all the right places, including one of those first verses where, although it’s just guitar, a bit of bass, and vocals, you have a sneaking suspicion that it’s all going to kick in. Spoilers: it all kicks in… And it is quite triumphant, my friends.
Lissy’s confidence, no doubt, comes from her many accomplishments: the BBC Introducing Record of The Week at BBC Stoke three times in a row– in 2022 alone, placing in the top 60 out of 10,000 for Radio 1’s Live Lounge, a premiere with CLASH Magazine, multiple prestigious playlist placements, and the list just goes on and on. With a first-class honors degree in songwriting, it is obvious that she is doing what she is supposed to be doing.
Be that as it may, “Fierce” will not be for everyone. There is bound to be the jealous fool out there who will say that it sounds too mainstream. And, yes, the chorus has certainly been designed to be the kind that becomes imbedded inside of your head, but the track will, most likely, find its way onto any number of soundtracks for movies or television where the protagonist must become ‘fierce’ in order to overcome the antagonist. And Lissy will be laughing at the naysayers from atop her mountain of accolades because there is absolutely no denying that “Fierce” is well crafted, well recorded, and well produced.
-TM