5 songs feature: Blossom Caldarone

Blossom Caldarone is a south London based singer-songwriter. Born in Gloucestershire, her whimsical vocal - reminiscent of Lily Allen - and knack for story-telling has seen her making waves in the music world, having released her first 4-track EP 'Sit and Be' in 2017. Her recent release, 'Less of a Girl', is a beautiful ode to growing up, leaving home and finding out who you are. Like most of her music, it's littered in specific details and quirks, though remains general enough to be both personal and relatable. Writing about growing up, teenage heartbreak and everything in between, Blossom's music is wonderfully honest, raw and completely relatable.

Today she shared 5 tracks which have inspired her music:

1. Georgy Girl - The Seekers
"This song always reminds me of my Dad who is someone that really got me into music at a young age. Georgy Girl has sort of become my anthem now; my friends always say it reminds them of me! I love the idea behind it; a girl nonchalantly going about her day but not feeling emotionally fulfilled. She doesn't get a second look from boys and is encouraged to 'shed her dowdy wings and fly'; I can't say I agree with the sentiment that we should be penalising girls for lack of male attention but it's something that certainly resonated with me as a teenage girl. It holds so many memories for me, it makes me laugh and cry and I'm not sure there are many songs that can do that."

2. Into My Arms - Nick Cave 
"Into My Arms is possibly one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. I always start writing my songs with just vocals and piano and build from there. This is something Nick Cave does so wonderfully. The whole idea of the song is that if God is going to intervene with love, the only thing he should do is send the girl Nick loves into his arms; its such an eloquent idea. Its certainly inspired me when writing about love; if you're going to do it, you need to commit and make it totally over romanticised and ridiculous. Involve God, involve poetry, involve cliches."

3. Piano Man - Billy Joel 
"Similarly to Nick Cave, this is just another brilliant piano, vocal song. Its a track about normal people living their mundane and normal lives, observed by Billy Joel in a pub. I've spent a lot of time working in pubs and got a lot of my lyrical inspiration from the people I met and served while working. The idea that some of the most compelling and timeless stories are inspired by the monotony in life is one of my favourites; boredom inspires some of the most creative decisions and ideas. This idea has inspired pretty much all of my music; especially Life Again, Aldo, House Party No.1 and The Bottle, which spring to mind first.

4. Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton
"Dolly's voice is exceptional in this, as it is in all of her music, but I do love the contrast between power and ease in this track. She goes between these tender, heartbroken moments to the string indulgent choruses with such charge in her voice; she's amazing. Its such a... song. I think so many women have been there; you're just getting over someone and forgetting about them and they just turn up again. All of your moving on feels aimless and you're in love again. 'You're messing up my mind and filling up my senses' is my favourite lyric. It reminds me that love is fluid and ever changing, that idea helps when getting over (or under) someone."

5. Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkins
"This song is just a BANGER. It was released on The Beatles' Apple label; and you can hear Paul McCartney's input. It was originally a Russian romance song 'Dorogoi Dlinnoyu' but Gene Raskin gave it an English phrase before it was adopted by Mary Hopkins. Its so cinematic and over the top, and the Russian melodies in it are completely sexy, which I love. Its string and horn indulgence has certainly inspired my songs, like Perfect Too and Immature, where the production is hammy but almost like a mini musical. So much fun!"


Listen to Blossom Caldarone, here.
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Blossom Caldarone's new song 'Less of a Girl'