Stacey Chanelle Claire Solomon (born 4 October 1989) is an English singer and media personality. In 2009, she finished in third place on the sixth series of The X Factor, and gained a number one single on the UK Singles Chart when her fellow The X Factor finalists released a cover of "You Are Not Alone". Solomon won the tenth series of I'm a Celebrity...
Get Me Out of Here!. Her debut single, a cover of "Driving Home for Christmas", was released on 19 December 2011. Solomon then released her debut album Shy on 18 April 2015. In September 2016, she began appearing as a panellist on Loose Women and in November of the same year she presented the I'm a Celebrity spin-off series I'm a Celebrity: Extra Camp.
Song You Need: Pool Kids’ lived-in post-emo melancholy
thefader.comFew rock bands can make melancholy sound as sweet as Pool Kids. It’s far from their only emotional state: on last year’s self-titled album, the Tallahassee four-piece used math rock, emo, post-hardcore, and pop-punk to harness catharsis that comes from relationships; there were moments of good humor, such as on “Arm’s Length,” which explored the agony of interacting with other people via phone.
But for the most part, the album’s music represented a dissolution at a cellular level, and the attempt to reconstitute it into something worthwhile. “No Stranger,” the opening track from Pool Kids’ new EP Pool Kids // POOL, begins with a tinge of bitterness from lead vocalist Christine Goodwyne: “You’re nicer to me now / I always knew you’d come around.” These two lines are sung with an introvert’s conviction, forcefully yet with eyes averted.
That’s the song’s only trace of venom, with guitar melodies and a wandering bassline stacking on top of each other like an impossibly beautiful Rude Goldberg Machine, a stark contrast to Goodwyne’s lyrical tale of a journey back from rock bottom.
Her pleading gasps of “carpet apartment” are evocative enough to make you smell the mold and disrepair. It’s a lived-in sadness that turns you into a palm reader, looking for your own patterns and signifiers in its creases.
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