{"id":68781,"date":"2020-10-20T00:45:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/?p=68781"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T22:38:42","slug":"billy-vena-talking-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodwee.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/billy-vena-talking-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Vena &#8211; Talking to Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We always love hearing something fresh that has some hints of old favourites running through it. On &#8220;Talking to Myself&#8221;, dancer-turned-singer Billy Vena draws upon the Ghosts of Popstars Past to deliver a tune that&#8217;s devoid of clich\u00e9 and full of familiar-yet-refreshing goodness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Play the latest tune by <strong>Billy Vena<\/strong>, <em>Talking To Myself<\/em> :<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/911351929&#038;color=%23dd0f60&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/billy-vena\" title=\"Billy Vena\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billy Vena<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/billy-vena\/talking-to-myself\" title=\"Talking to Myself\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Talking to Myself<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>I think <a href=\"https:\/\/highclouds.org\/billy-vena-space-hippie-premiere\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"our friends at HighClouds put it best (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">our friends at HighClouds put it best<\/a> when they described Billy&#8217;s style as &#8220;a bit of Michael Jackson seen through a modern psych-pop lens&#8221;. There&#8217;s an 80&#8217;s sensibility present throughout &#8220;Talking To Myself&#8221;, even a little bit of a disco feel on the chorus, but Billy avoids any and all garishness that sometimes comes with throwback songs. Maybe that&#8217;s just because it&#8217;s less of a retrospective than it is a timeless piece of juicy pop, complete with some saxophone that just demands a place in your playlist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Baby the light is shining down on me<br>Dancing around until it sees my feet<br>I&#8217;m making up with my identity<br>It feels so right, and it&#8217;s all night<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing not to love here. 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