Katy B – On A Mission

Couple thoughts on this:

‘Easy Please Me’ is the most interesting track on here as far as I can tell. On one hand it’s kind of a Lily Allen/Streets-style diary entry about a night out – a device she doesn’t tend to rely on too heavily on other tracks – but it also says the most about Katy B as a person.

The album might inhabit a twilit world of clubs and bars, but I couldn’t imagine Katy stumbling out of Funky Buddha, flashing her bits at the paparazzi before stumbling into a cab with a premiership footballer. That’s not her style, she’s much more guarded and self-aware than that, coming off all the better for it in the process. No wonder she seems to get approached so often – she’s a popstar with humility, the kind of girl you’d happily take home to your mum for tea and then go raving with all night.

So while she’s out to have a good time, she’s very much aware of the people around her. She has a kind of passiveness in wanting to please others but really wishes to find the one true person she can help to please. But until then she’s politely fending off suitors, with maybe the odd polite flirtation here and there. And this is reflected in the way she approaches her music – not tying herself to any particular genre yet still embracing each one in the same genuine and endearing way. She’s as comfortable with the underground as with the mainstream, like so many mumsy teatimes and all night raves.

And don’t you just love the internal rhyme of “I was at a bar with my friend Olivia”? Also love those dubby synth sounds that come in during the chorus.

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