“Move” by Blush FM is the Sound of Someone Who Has Long Cast Off the Emotional Grip of Someone Bad For Them

The hushed piano and vocals of Blush FM’s “Move” at times reminds one of an inverted version of Wham!’s “Everything She Wants” with some choice reverse delay on the keyboards. Synths wail in slow motion swirl around the vocals like sonic fog. Although it’s essentially a song declaring a casting off of unrealistic and draining expectations in a relationship there is a sultry tone to the melody as if written from a time in the future when the poignant ache of the moment is a memory being mulled over and processed in the hindsight of life experience and having the emotional vocabulary to put things in their proper context. The song feels intimate and present but the immediacy of the split has the aforementioned quality of discussing the photograph of an old love whose memory conjures those feelings all over again but without the ability to send you into a dark place, merely a melancholic frame of mind. When Blush FM sings “I can’t do what you want me to do, I don’t know how to move that way” and “Can I mention that I’ve put in all of my time” it sounds both romantic and weary, an interesting quality in a pop song where declarations of forever love or soul searing pain are the tropes. This song is for people who can still feel but aren’t in the grip of influence of someone bad for them. Listen to “Move” on Soundcloud.