{"id":973613,"date":"2019-11-20T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=914475"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:36:25","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-becca-stevens-good-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-becca-stevens-good-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Becca Stevens, \u2018Good Stuff\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Becca-Stevens_WONDERBLOOM-Press-Photo1_photo-credit-Shervin-Lainez.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Dance music has always embraced empowerment pop anthems \u2014 think \u201cI Will Survive,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Every Woman,\u201d and \u201cNo More Tears (Enough Is Enough),\u201d each a classic of rhythm and roar. In and of themselves, those relentless disco beats serve as a forceful riposte to feelings of suppression. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/becca-stevens\/\" id=\"auto-tag_becca-stevens\" data-tag=\"becca-stevens\">Becca Stevens<\/a>\u2019 \u201cGood Stuff\u201d isn\u2019t quite on the same grand, Studio 54 level as those earlier songs, but it\u2019s a spiritual and musical successor to them \u2014 a retro-disco souffl\u00e9 that makes you think and sway at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Hailing originally from North Carolina but currently on the Brooklyn scene, Stevens has always been musically hard to pin down. Over the last two decades, she\u2019s worked in various idioms \u2014 jazz, indie and orchestral pop, and folk rock, the latter with frequent collaborator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/david-crosby\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-crosby\" data-tag=\"david-crosby\">David Crosby<\/a>. (Stevens was part of the new band he worked and sang with on last year\u2019s <em>Here If&nbsp;<\/em><em>You Listen<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Adhering to a career filled with left turns, \u201cGood Stuff\u201d is itself a quirky take on retro disco. In its staccato, lo-fi-funk verses, Stevens airs her grievances, like the double standards women deal with (\u201cBe a lady\/Don\u2019t say too much\/Don\u2019t be too smart\/Don\u2019t get too angry\u201d) and how she has to work \u201ctwice as hard for half as much\/To get that satisfaction I can almost touch.\u201d (The use of \u201calmost\u201d is especially cutting.)<\/p>\n<p>But in the choruses, the song explodes into glitter-ball ecstasy \u2014 a warm bath of harmonies and four-to-the-floor rhythm that provides a welcome release to the tensions of the verses. Those choruses are the most hopeful, upbeat parts of the song \u2013 a hint of victory that will carry her, and listeners, into the next battle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/becca-stevens-good-stuff-song-you-need-to-know-914475\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dance music has always embraced empowerment pop anthems \u2014 think \u201cI Will Survive,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Every Woman,\u201d and \u201cNo More Tears (Enough Is Enough),\u201d each a classic of rhythm and roar. In and of themselves, those relentless disco beats serve as a forceful riposte to feelings of suppression. Becca Stevens\u2019 \u201cGood Stuff\u201d isn\u2019t quite on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 21:23:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}