{"id":45,"date":"2025-10-21T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/?p=45"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:16:57","slug":"sam-fender-featuring-elton-john-talk-to-you-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/2025\/10\/21\/sam-fender-featuring-elton-john-talk-to-you-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Fender (featuring. Elton John) &#8211; &#8216;Talk To You&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25103\/2025\/12\/IMG_0109-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\" style=\"width:711px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25103\/2025\/12\/IMG_0109-edited.jpg 876w, https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25103\/2025\/12\/IMG_0109-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25103\/2025\/12\/IMG_0109-edited-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wake of his hometown Mercury Prize win for his third album &#8216;People Watching&#8217;, North Shields born Sam Fender released the next of his tracks for the upcoming deluxe edition of the award-winning album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Talk to You&#8217; offers up a slower mulling over a ruined relationship, with Fender&#8217;s classic personal lyricism being accompanied by piano-led instrumentation, played by none other than legendary British musician Elton John.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst the song doesn&#8217;t offer anything far out of Fender&#8217;s wheelhouse, his storytelling remains captivating, as he sings about a lover that he has cheated on and is struggling with forgiving himself for these actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fender&#8217;s longing to simply &#8216;talk with my best friend&#8217;, believing he doesn&#8217;t deserve any sort of second chance, but wanting to just share the love and pain with a person that he holds such an emotional connection with, runs like a painfully honest and relatable depiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The backing vocals from fellow Northerner Brooke Bentham add a gorgeous accompaniment near the end of the track, which is also embellished by some classic Fender guitar and saxophone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ahead of the upcoming deluxe album, &#8216;Talk to You&#8217; is certainly a worthwhile addition to Fender&#8217;s growing discography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12,14,11,13],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-reviews","tag-elton-john","tag-mercury-prize","tag-sam-fender","tag-talk-to-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/350"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/kole-cornish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}