Saadi's new single, "Bottom to the Top," slides from the edges of the synthpop galaxy and seizes you by the collar and drags you into the thumping center of desire. Amidst her unmistakable blend of Electro, gothic wave, and hypnotizing synthpop, the Syrian-American artist Saadi, also known as Boshra AlSaadi, unleashes a track that's fiercely personal as well as utterly fearless. With the electric shimmer of Teeny Lieberson on Oberheim OB8 synths and the sumptuous vocal backing of AJ Lambert, "Bottom to the Top" is a sassy cocktail of vintage sonics and contemporary insubordination.
The production itself is itinerant, cobbled together from home recording sessions in a sun-soaked studio in Glendale, CA, a cluttered apartment on the east side of Manhattan, and a ramshackle, unheated mountain house in Vermont. Instead, it thrums with the same ebullient energy that runs through AlSaadi's life and artistry. This is a love song about instinct, about openness, about craving with abandon. It's for all the lovers who lost themselves and never looked back. And AlSaadi's story is woven into the DNA of this song.
Born in Damascus and raised in Pennsylvania, she's endured more than most, molded by New York's East Village anti-folk scene, hardened via international tours with acts like TEEN and Janka Nabay, and spiritually reborn in the wake of her muscular dystrophy diagnosis. No longer is her music just a passion but a lifeline. A record of survival. "Bottom to the Top" is one of those songs that spans genres. It has the moody textures of Gothic Wave, the kinetic fizz of retro synths, and the raw soul of a woman who has weathered through the quiet storms and come out louder. On this one track, Saadi has shown herself not only a mistress of sound but a fearless tale-teller. Desire is the theme, but freedom is the message, and it's packaged in synthesizers that shimmer, growl, and, in the end, set you free.
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