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Music Monday Tuesday: Tender Forever
Tender Forever never forgets.
Tender Forever is Melanie Valera with likable melodies, a plethora of Casio beats and awkwardly intimate lyrics. Valera, a French citizen of Spanish descent, fits the mold of charming female electro-based musicians singing about the existential meaning of love in context of slices-of-life. Or something like that. I think my favorite parts of the album are when you can hear her accent simply because there’s a certain vulnerability in hearing a person of foreign origin express themselves in a different language. Then again, there seems to be a pattern of said vulnerability in K Records material as of late, specifically last year’s The Blow.
Speaking of…as an artist, Valera will most likely bear a number of Blow-based hits (sort of a pun), and rightfully so, but I don’t think “Wider” is meant to be recreation of “Paper Television,” nor should it thought to be as much. “Wider” is pretty heartfelt and oddly romantic, where there was something brazen and forceful about “Paper Television.” Tender Forever is definitely weirder than The Blow, but you it’s hard to consider weirdness a weakness in something that feels uncomfortably honest.
Featured Song: “Nicer If They Tried” by Tender Forver
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Featured Song: “Wider Too” by Tender Forver
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Featured Video: “How Many” by Tender Forver
