Georgia Webster got her start by posting videos of her original songs on TikTok during the pandemic. She’s toured with country legends such as Kelsea Ballerini and Ingrid Andress, as well as upcoming pop starlet Cate Canning earlier this year. Her new album EVERYTHING MUST GO! is witty, compact, and vulnerable marking a promising debut for the singer songwriter.
EVERYTHING MUST GO! has a tight runtime of 27 minutes with 8 tracks that flow chronologically through the story of a messy break up. On the first listen, the brevity of the album left me wanting more. But after listening a bit more, the pacing and quickness of the album is one of its greatest strengths.
There’s a bubbliness to EVERYTHING MUST GO!, like that feeling of meeting someone new at a bar and knowing that you’ll be best friends by the end of the night. Webster tells her story exactly how it is, she doesn’t over complicate and extend things just because she can. Webster doesn’t hesitate to be blunt with her listeners, she knew what she wanted to say and so she said it.
The album starts out strong with “MANIFESTING A BREAKUP” and “TWO YEARS (ANOTHER GOODBYE)” the two singles for the project. Webster drops us immediately in the action alongside her. MANIFESTING A BREAKUP is twisted and ironic in all the right ways, and TWO YEARS (ANOTHER GOODBYE) kickstarts the emotional engine of the rest of the album.
The title track EVERYTHING MUST GO! is a personal favorite. It’s very reminiscent of early Taylor Swift lyrically but with a more modern pop production. The music video that accompanies it has a classic early 2000’s coming of age feel to it as Webster tears apart her room trying on different outfits and accessories all in the name of moving on.
“LA COOL” and “WIFE MATERIAL” were stand out tracks in terms of vulnerability. Webster see’s through the facade of the wannabe socialites of Los Angeles, but that doesn’t stop her from feeling insecure. “WIFE MATERIAL” is the track that surprised me the most on the record. It hinges on the relationship between romantic love and independence. While on first listen it feels like the song is leaning into the girl-boss stereotype, but Webster exposes the deep rooted anxiety that lays underneath that mask. There’s a desire for contentment but also the restlessness and fear of being tied to one thing forever. By the end of the song Webster knows what she wants: to be cared for as an individual, not just as a fragment of someone else’s dream.
It’s fitting that the song that follows “WIFE MATERIAL” is a love song. We spend the whole album with Webster trying to untangle this toxic web of thinking post-breakup, and ‘OUTTA SIGHT, OUTTA MIND” is the moment those patterns break and good things start to flow in. It’s a giddy love song about someone who you can’t keep out of your head on a long vacation. It ends the album on a hopeful note, that even through tough times there is always something better awaiting you at the end.
EVERYTHING MUST GO! is available everywhere now.
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