Yes, the acoustic impression is not misleading. It doesn’t just sound sexy the way the beats slurp along, it’s also about sex: “Fuck me, so I feel better,” sings Molly Mogul in “Touch Me”, it’s about perfume and sweat, about “make me come” and “don’t take it slow”, and about the fact that he shouldn’t just run away afterwards. So you can see: Molly Mogul doesn’t mince her words, while the electronics click seductively, as if Massive Attack and Portishead had stayed until breakfast.
Pop that never sounds one-dimensional and rarely too weird
What is significant, however, is that “Touch Me” is one of the few songs on the debut album A BOUQUET OF HOPES AND DREAMS on which the artist from Inning am Ammersee, who now moves between Bristol, Munich, Barcelona and Paris, sings exclusively in English.
Otherwise she likes to switch to her native language in the middle of the song, but she is never so explicit in it. And that would really have been a great art to negotiate the physical aspects of love so aggressively in German without sounding too cringe. Molly Mogul avoids this challenge, but at least she succeeds in pop that never sounds one-dimensional and rarely too weird, but always balances with the times – and that’s a lot.
