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Press Play At Home: Lydia Luce Calls For Romantic Armistice In Performance Of "Tangled Love"

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For the latest episode of Press Play At Home, Nashville singer/songwriter Lydia Luce sings of love as a labyrinthine struggle worthy of a world war
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Mar 4, 2021 - 10:09 am

Lydia Luce's presence is like the eye of a storm. Surrounded by masked musicians from her Lockeland Strings section, she stoically sings "Tangled Love," a song about settling scores and brokering accords in romance.\

"Let's call a treaty, let's call it quits/Love shouldn't feel like this," she sings with an earthy, grounded voice in the latest episode of Press Play At Home, making a breakup sound as weighty as collapsed relations between sovereign states.

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In another sense, the storm is literal. On March 3, Luce released a virtual benefit show marking the one-year anniversary of the Tennessee tornado that devastated Nashville in 2020. She's pointing viewers to Middle Tennessee Emergency Response Fund at The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee if they wish to donate.

Watch Luce's mesmerizing performance of "Tangled Love" above and watch more episodes of Press Play At Home here.

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Press Play At Home: Adam Melchor Pays Gorgeous Homage To His Sister With Performance Of "Jewel"

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With a small nylon-string guitar in hand, New Jersey-bred indie-folkie Adam Melchor saunters and croons among sunflowers
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Feb 11, 2021 - 8:57 am

Adam Melchor moved to Los Angeles on the promise of one meeting, and that meeting got him signed to a label. Still, the New Jersey-born singer/songwriter was struggling in his new climes. One day, he called his sister, Julie, and asked her for good news. Julie replied that she recently had a moment where she knew her boyfriend was "the one." Today, that boyfriend is Julie’s fiancé, and Melchor celebrates her with "Jewel." 

On this week’s episode of Press Play At Home, he plucks and sings the tune, often breaking into a fragile falsetto. Throughout, he conjures memories of old-school Sufjan Stevens and the Shins. 

Check out Adam Melchor's performance below, and explore more episodes of GRAMMY.com's Press Play At Home series.

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Press Play At Home: Omar Apollo Lays Down Emotional Version Of "Useless"

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For the latest episode of Press Play At Home, DIY soul wunderkind Omar Apollo gets vulnerable and taps the upper reaches of his falsetto
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Jan 28, 2021 - 12:58 pm

For the latest episode of GRAMMY.com's Press Play At Home series, Latinx singer/songwriter Omar Apollo performs a pared-back version of "Useless," a cut from his renowned 2020 album, Apolonio. Apollo, Michael Gordon, Oscar Santander and Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. wrote the track. In the video, Santander strums along on acoustic guitar, driving home this spare, vulnerable performance.

Omar Apollo Performs Emotional "Useless"

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Press Play At Home: Aaron Lee Tasjan's Playful Performance Of "Computer Of Love"

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"Some advanced technology is eating through my brain," Tasjan laments at the start of the lively folk-rock song
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Dec 17, 2020 - 11:02 am

In the latest episode of Press Play At Home, Nashville-based singer/songwriter Aaron Lee Tasjan offers a playful yet piercing take on technological dependency in his performance of "Computer of Love."

"Some advanced technology is eating through my brain," Tasjan laments at the start of the lively folk-rock song. Watch his full performance below.

Featured on his forthcoming, genre-bending album, Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!, out Feb. 5, 2021, the song references the disconnection caused by technology and social media and the emotional barriers they create within and between people.

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Press Play At Home: Watch Dodie Perform A Morning-After Version Of "Four Tequilas Down"

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In the latest episode of Press Play At Home, singer/songwriter dodie conjures a bleary last call in a hushed performance of "Four Tequilas Down"
Morgan Enos
GRAMMYs
Jun 24, 2021 - 8:38 am

"Four Tequilas Down" is as much a song as it is a memory—a half-remembered one. "Did you make your eyes blur?/So that in the dark, I'd look like her?" dodie, the song's writer and performer, asks. To almost anyone who's engaged in a buzzed rebound, that detail alone should elicit a wince of recognition.

Such is dodie's beyond-her-years mastery of her craft: Over a simple, spare chord progression, she can use an economy of words to twist the knife. "So just hold me like you mean it," dodie sings at the song's end. "We'll pretend because we need it."

In the latest episode of Press Play At Home, watch dodie stretch her songwriting muscles while conjuring a chemically altered Saturday night—and the Sunday morning full of regrets, too.

Watch Dodie Perform A Bleary "Four Tequilas Down"

Check out dodie's hushed-yet-intense performance of "Four Tequilas Down" above and click here to enjoy more episodes of Press Play At Home.

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