The song 'I Am Not In Love With You' by the Swedish artist 'Startur' is a melancholic synth pop track with a slight touch of folk music. This is fortunately only very subtly present, otherwise this song would not be for me.
The chorus of this midtempo piece is crisply catchy and you automatically start humming it with the first repetition. However, the song also has a slight generic poppiness that can harm the song in the long run by fading into the fog of memories. I would wish for a little more courage to be more independent. However, that doesn't make the song bad and for now the song works very well without having to listen to it.
By the way, the song comes from the project 'The Wheel' where one song is released every month for one year. After 'Aesthetic Perfection' and various other artists, this is probably a new thing, to be able to perfectly distribute every single song of an album, but at least it doesn't hurt anyone.
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Starur about 'I Am Not in Love With You'
Tears and heartache in a synthpop song inspired by the melancholic eighties. Starur wrote it herself in her bedroom, learning how to use electronic music as a way of creating. Before that, she had always been a folk musician playing instruments like the guitar, the celtic harp, piano and percussion. Here she does not of that, and with the help of producer Tobias Löfkvist, she let her voice and the synthesizers carry her home.
Her very first single was called "Femme Fatale", a vocal synthwave song. This single, "I Am Not in Love With You" thematically follows, and continues the story.
