{"id":7339,"date":"2016-08-26T17:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=7339"},"modified":"2019-04-06T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T09:03:02","slug":"singles-market-bishop-briggs-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/singles-market-bishop-briggs-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Singles Market: Bishop Briggs&#8217; &#8216;River&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Antonio Beliveau is a singer\/songwriter and rock pianist. Known mostly from his band, Crash Kings, their single, \u2018Mountain Man\u2019, peaked the Alternative Billboard Charts in March of 2010. Beliveau has performed and recorded with such artists as Chris Cornell, Jet, The Veils, Natasha Bedingfield, Linda Perry, Courtney Love, and Christina Aguilara, and is currently scoring for film and TV.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simple.<\/strong> Space. Repetition. Straight to the point. This is what comes to mind when I hear the single \u2018River\u2019 by artist Bishop Briggs. It\u2019s not a song that goes into my iTunes after hearing it even for the third time. But there\u2019s a lot to appreciate about this cut.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I always love when an artist starts a song with its chorus. When it\u2019s actually possible to do so, opening with the chorus can be really effective in making the listener feel like they\u2019ve heard the song before&#8212;even when they haven&#8217;t&#8212;especially when the chorus hits big the second time around.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I\u2019m going to have to make a comparison. And it\u2019s only because using the \u2018chorus at the beginning\u2019 tactic isn\u2019t the only thing that makes me feel like this song is familiar. &#8216;River\u2019 has much of the same vibe, sound, feel, and sonic characteristics as Awolnations hit single, \u2018Sail\u2019. Only, instead of hearing the typical male voice, we\u2019re hearing the badass vocals of the only female currently in the top 10 Alternative Charts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ug3TnTX7d8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to take any stabs at the record industry today (I woke up and it was cloudy and cool in Los Angeles, which actually makes me happy). But it\u2019s interesting to consider why the Alternative Charts are so heavily dominated by male artists. Is it because there are less women who find it appealing to tackle the genre? Is it because the alternative rock audience prefers to hear male vocals? If I were to guess, I\u2019d say that it\u2019s more about the lack of women who choose to dive into this genre. And in Bishop Briggs\u2019 case, I don\u2019t believe she knowingly chose it for her current single. This is rarely, if ever, the artist\u2019s choice. But it is the choice of the artist to decide their aesthetic and potential target audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018River\u2019 uses the stomp-and-clap approach to penetrate the masses and makes the assumption that people are getting dumber and dumber. This song doesn\u2019t need that. It\u2019s got a great hook, and Bishop\u2019s vocals are effective, straight, and free from the \u2018American Idol\u2019 syndrome, which we all know and hate so much.\u00a0 It\u2019s the lack of vocal acrobatics, use of space, grit, simplicity in melody, and that familiar bluesy feel that people love and that makes this song a hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018River\u2019 isn\u2019t a favorite of mine. It doesn\u2019t pass the-morning-after-test.\u00a0 But it\u2019s really nice to see a girl kicking ass in the rock world. I\u2019ll be interested to see what happens next for Bishop Briggs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Feature image source: headlineplanet.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s got a great hook, and Bishop\u2019s vocals are effective, straight, and free from the \u2018American Idol\u2019 syndrome, which we all know and hate so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,40],"tags":[1359,1360,1247,1356,1358,891,1248,1357,1361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7339"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7339\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}