{"id":672468,"date":"2026-11-02T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672468\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:00:11","slug":"ashe-the-girl-of-your-dreams-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672468\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashe: The Girl of Your Dreams Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashe has dabbled in vintage aesthetics on and off since her 2021 debut, Ashlyn\u2014a record you might describe as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31247-to-love\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tove Lo<\/a> in Lauren Canyon\u201d or maybe \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/22898-carole-king\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carole King<\/a> takes a 10 mg edible\u201d\u2014but in the wake of breakthroughs for retro-minded artists like <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/olivia-dean\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/laufey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laufey<\/a>, it finally feels like her approach to confessional songwriting has a secure place in the pop world. Ashe\u2019s prior album, the intense but uneven Willson, ended with a moment of abject insecurity (\u201cWill any of this matter?\/Will any of us matter in the end?\u201d), but she arrives on The Girl of Your Dreams in fighting shape, unafraid of a syrupy string section, a bout of Broadway-style belting, or even a hand-waggling key change. The allusions are pretty overt: \u201cStardust\u201d is a hazier version of Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u201cDreams,\u201d and \u201cLasso the Moon\u201d has a distinct \u201cDon\u2019t Go Breaking My Heart\u201d flavor. Still, the songs are so tight, confident and catchy, it\u2019s hard to turn up your nose at their indebtedness to past eras.<\/p>\n<p>Other than a couple lines about lovebombing and iced lattes, the lyrics feel pointedly timeless, with broad, universal imagery (the moon, the sun, the weather, the seasons) and a circular narrative that starts with Ashe as a regretful bride and ends with her having found someone worthy of marrying once more. Of course, she\u2019s thinking all the way ahead to the speech her new husband will one day make at her funeral: \u201cSay I found who I belong to\/And the best thing I ever did was loving you.\u201d If her current Marilyn Monroe hairdo didn\u2019t tip you off, Ashe\u2019s idea of romance is pure Hollywood, each breakup and make-up augmented with special effects and stretched to the widest of screens: She\u2019s constantly falling into reveries about oceans at night and gardens at dusk, and memories of her ex give her chills even in a Chicago heatwave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashe has dabbled in vintage aesthetics on and off since her 2021 debut, Ashlyn\u2014a record you might describe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[692,93,61,60,278,514],"class_list":["post-672468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-albums","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}