Artists, particularly in pop music, use a lot of different weapons when they get into a battle for their audience’s affections, and for Giadora, vocal harmonies are the bread and butter of her war chest. Songs like her latest single “Naïve” require a lot of moxie from behind the microphone, but she doesn’t back down from the challenge set before her here for a second. An agent of intoxication from the jump, the harmonies of “Naïve” are perhaps the most communicative element that the track has to offer its listeners (outside of Giadora’s singing, that is), and whether you’ve heard her music prior to now or not, it doesn’t take much to get swept away by their uncompromising fragility and the message this ultimately imparts.
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The percussion in this song is oddly hollow, but I think that this was deliberately made this way on the part of producers and Giadora herself. In order to maximize our focus on the colorful nature of the harmonies, there has to be a little bit of sacrifice on the beats, but from where I sit, it’s a worthy tradeoff – especially when we’re in the clutches of the hook in “Naïve.” There’s give and take in the making of any good pop single, and for what she was presented with here, I think Giadora did the most logical – and aesthetically brow-raising – thing one could do when attempting to make a sequel to what was already a fairly popular track.
I think that “Naïve” would work as well acoustically as it does in this particular scenario, and traditionally, that’s always been what separates the fun, flavor of the month pop material from the content that has a lasting influence over fans and other artists in the genre. Good bones make all the difference in the world in this style of music, and it would seem to me that, in reference to her adaptable approach to songwriting, Giadora is a little better prepared for the big leagues than some of her less than erudite peers would be if given the same opportunities that she’s receiving at the moment. You can’t teach talent like hers, and probably that’s never been more evident than it has become in the Soundcloud age.
In all honesty, I wasn’t listening to nor closely following the career of Ms. Giadora before now, but I’ve become a legitimate fan through the sophisticated sonic smorgasbord that is “Naïve.” You don’t have to be the biggest pop fan on the planet to dig on the grooves that are hidden beneath the fabric of every cathartic melody here, but for those of us who can appreciate the genre more than the average Joe can, this is premium content that just doesn’t come around all that often in the industry. Giadora is at the start of something really cool in this single, as well as her first release “Twisted,” and audiophiles would likely be foolish to miss out on any part of her development moving forward from this point on.
Jodi Marxbury