We could get used to this. Jessie Ware is six years deep into her disco era, and while the British singer has hinted that she might take her next album in a different direction from 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? and 2023’s This! Feels Good!, the first single, “I Could Get Used to This,” is another disco-pop bauble in the vein of “Spotlight” and “Pearls.”
With the new song, Ware serves up a woozy cocktail of fluttery flutes, lush strings, wobbly bass, and pie-eyed key changes, all in service of more hedonistic pleasure-seeking. “Let’s stay here for infinity/Pablo silhouette, Venus energy,” she sings breathlessly, accompanied by heaps of gauzy harmonies.
Directed by London-based twin duo Fa & Fon, the music video for “I Could Get Used to This” sees Ware taking on the role of another Roman goddess, Juno, protector of women. She alternately admires her countenance in a handheld mirror and lies on a chaise lounge in a “secret garden” surrounded by other gods and goddesses, a tableaux vivant whose intentional artifice reflects the song’s embrace of fantasy and whimsy.
Watch the video for “I Could Get Used to This” below:
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