“Something’s Gotta Give” From Kinga

There’s a mischievousness to the synthetic melody that initially greets us at the introduction to the new single “Something’s Gotta Give” from Kinga that is immediately broken up by the verses our leading man delivers just moments into the song, and yet the tone here will influence every striking juncture of the track’s 3:25 length. There’s not exactly a lot of grandiosity to the master mix, but still, there persists a sense of tremendous excess that flows through the instrumentation and comes to a screeching halt at the soft timbre of our vocalist’s voice. The harmony is solid gold while the beat is a bit pensive and prone to noisy outbursts, and although the chemistry is incendiary, the firestorm of melodic grandeur is perhaps what Kinga fans should expect from his current output.

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The lyrics in “Something’s Gotta Give” are what give the song its identity, but they don’t define the expressiveness of the performance in the least. Whether you’re a longtime fan of the modern pop beat or completely disinterested in what’s happening on the scene at the moment, there’s a profound passion that the vocal attaches to every verse here immediately indicating the contemporary importance of what we’re listening to. It feels like a depiction of pop history, an attempt at personifying both the emotional state of the moment as well as the optimism that sits atop the horizon, and I don’t think you need much more context than the beat provides to get into the track’s aesthetic. That’s difficult to pull off in a song that is entirely beat-centric without coming off as one-note, but to be fair, Kinga has shown himself to be capable of as much in the past.

In pop music, everything builds up to, surrounds, and leans on the chorus when it comes to selling both a narrative and a compositional structure, but I don’t think this is true of “Something’s Gotta Give” per se. There’s undeniably a lot of luster coming into the hook in this single, but I would argue that there’s just as much to be said about the tension Kinga skews in the lead-in to the chorus, especially as this relates to how the listener ultimately interprets the narrative. The theatrical nature of the song, as we come to understand it from the moment we press play forward, is what solidifies the chills factor for me no matter how many times I’ve heard the track, and I doubt I’m the only critic who would remark as much.

The future is looking bright for Kinga in 2023, and if you weren’t certain of this before listening to his work in the new single “Something’s Gotta Give,” something tells me you’re going to share my sentiments after you check it out this April. The year is already popping off with a juggernaut of an opening month, and though this is far from the only alternative dance-pop song that I would tell you to put on the stereo in the backdrop of history’s unfolding moments, I will say that I don’t see myself forgetting the performance Kinga gives here anytime soon if ever at all.

Mindy McCall