Everyone knows that one of the greatest tricks you can pull in pop music is writing a song that's actually about something quite sad and depressing, but covering it in a happy shell.
It's worked for ABBA (Super Trouper, basically all of The Visitors) and Robyn (Dancing On My Own) and even Olivia Rodrigo (good 4 u) and it is also currently working for Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, better known as the Irish indie-pop act CMAT.
After a few years of droplet singles that have been as humourous as they have been heartbreaking (as she says quite literally in I Really Don't Care About You - "oh, the Marian Keyes of it all!"), CMAT finally dropped her debut album If My Wife New I'd Be Dead last Friday (March 4).
It's a record of self-examination that explores both plunging depths of the human experience as well as firing off jokes and quips with such force and consistency, you start to think you're at a stand-up gig.
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