{"id":12034,"date":"2026-06-04T19:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/v-pesne-do-that-again-malkolm-todd-smeshivaet-zhanry-i-peredaet-silnye-emoczii\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T19:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:04:29","slug":"in-the-song-do-that-again-malcolm-todd-mixes-songs-and-conveys-strong-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imgist.ru\/en\/v-pesne-do-that-again-malkolm-todd-smeshivaet-zhanry-i-peredaet-silnye-emoczii\/","title":{"rendered":"In the song &quot;Do That Again&quot;, Malcolm Todd mixes genres and conveys strong emotions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Todd is a rising star with a sweet, melodic voice and a knack for creating soulful pop. But if you&#039;re looking for the illusions of grandeur we often expect from rising pop stars, you might want to look elsewhere. The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter began his self-titled debut album, 2025, with concerns that he might fail because he&#039;s &quot;not Harry Styles&quot; (one of the most memorable admissions of relative career insecurity since Pink&#039;s claim a quarter-century ago that she wasn&#039;t as beautiful as Britney). On &quot;I Saw Your Face,&quot; a soft and insistent track from his new album, <em>Do That Again<\/em> , he says, &quot;Life ain&#039;t a movie\/I&#039;m no movie star.&quot; But Todd skillfully balances realism, finding the perfect balance between heartfelt romanticism and agonizing introspection. &quot;I probably shouldn&#039;t do this, but I&#039;ll do it for the song,&quot; he sings, before diving headfirst into what sounds like an emotionally risky affair on &quot;Breathe,&quot; where subtle bass lines and subtle Chic-esque guitar licks set the mood.<\/p>\n<p> Todd fits in with artists like Omar Apollo (with whom he&#039;s toured), Mk.Gee, and Steve Lacy\u2014musicians who happily blur genre boundaries and excel at distilling powerful emotions down to the most human scale. His craft is bedroom pop, equally influenced by indie confessionals and R&amp;B valentines. On &quot;Jean Skirt,&quot; images of sweaty clothes on the floor are accompanied by watery guitar lines; the salty ballad &quot;Free99&quot; wistfully reflects on fading innocence; &quot;Difficult Love&quot; revels in the only kind of love he thinks he knows, over a lush hip-hop beat.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> Malcolm Todd recreated The Notebook for the Instagram age in the video for &quot;Chest Pains.&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Malcolm Todd made a triumphant debut on the pop scene.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> Ticketmaster has suspended sales of Celine Dion concert tickets due to &quot;suspicious activity.&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> The upbeat &quot;Malcolm In the Middle&quot; references the popular early-2000s sitcom (on which his father was a writer and on which he starred as a child), but it&#039;s not a saccharine lament about growing up almost famous, but a complex exploration of relationship politics, with lines like &quot;if you can&#039;t understand a word I&#039;m saying, then I won&#039;t make a sound.&quot;.<\/p>\n<p> The album is full of moments where the music evokes a modern, original interpretation of such greats as Hall &amp; Oates or even Prince, while the lyrics add new nuances to classic pop songs about heartbreak. &quot;My doorbell only rings when the food&#039;s at the door,&quot; he muses on &quot;Lonely Song.&quot; It&#039;s a sentiment anyone can relate to, perhaps even Harry Styles.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p> \u00abBen E. King&#039;s &quot;Stand by Me&quot;: 21 Must-Hear Covers.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> 25 Songs That Are Actually Horrifying<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p> All 286 Taylor Swift songs, listed in descending order of popularity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Subscribe to the RollingStone newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malcolm Todd is a rising star with a sweet, melodic voice and a talent for creating soulful pop music. 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