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Olivia Dean review – a powerful, affirming night with a pop star at the height of her powers
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne The singer’s first stop on her Australia and New Zealand tour is a fun but sincere demonstration of the power of pop to get at what love’s all about It’s so easy to fall in love with Olivia Dean. It seems as if she has been everywhere this past year: performing on Saturday Night Live, winning best new artist at the Grammys and an armful of Brits, on the soundtrack to the latest Bridget Jones movie. Even before I had pressed play on her smash album, The Art of Loving, I’d heard so many of its songs – the No 1 single Man I Need, the multi-platinum-selling Nice to Each Other and So Easy (To Fall in Love) – in coffee shops, on TikTok videos of girls cleaning their houses and Instagram stories of newlyweds doing their first dance. There’s something addictive about her rich, treacly voice. It’s universal, the kind of rare substance you want to give your grandma a bum
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Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne The singer’s first stop on her Australia and New Zealand tour is a fun but sincere demonstration of the power of pop to get at what love’s all about It’s so easy to fall in love with Olivia Dean. It seems as if she has been everywhere this past year: performing on Saturday Night Live, winning best new artist at the Grammys and an armful of Brits, on the soundtrack to the latest Bridget Jones movie. Even before I had pressed play on her smash album, The Art of Loving, I’d heard so many of its songs – the No 1 single Man I Need, the multi-platinum-selling Nice to Each Other and So Easy (To Fall in Love) – in coffee shops, on TikTok videos of girls cleaning their houses and Instagram stories of newlyweds doing their first dance. There’s something addictive about her rich, treacly voice. It’s universal, the kind of rare substance you want to give your grandma a bum
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Olivia Dean review – a powerful, affirming night with a pop star at the height of her powers, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne The singer’s first stop on her Australia and New Zealand tour is a fun but sincere demonstration of the power of pop to get at what love’s all about It’s so easy to fall in love with Olivia Dean. It seems as if she has been everywhere this past year: performing on Saturday Night Live, winning best new artist at the Grammys and an armful of Brits, on the soundtrack to the latest Bridget Jones movie. Even before I had pressed play on her smash album, The Art of Loving, I’d heard so many of its songs – the No 1 single Man I Need, the multi-platinum-selling Nice to Each Other and So Easy (To Fall in Love) – in coffee shops, on TikTok videos of girls cleaning their houses and Instagram stories of newlyweds doing their first dance. There’s something addictive about her rich, treacly voice. It’s universal, the kind of rare substance you want to give your grandma a bum
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