Baby Mine - Ben Freeman (Pop) Ben Freeman returns to the blog with latest track, “Baby Mine,” a soaring anthemic and driving midtempo. Ben continues to display his musicality in form, structure and build, with a series of additions, diversions and layers throughout the track that make “Baby Mine” an impressive production that could stand shoulder to shoulder with today’s Top 40. If we’re dipping back into our reference database, the record reminds us a bit of Jessie J’s “Thunder” in it’s burning intensity and tension that make the listener feel on a knife’s edge throughout. The twinkling rhodes and synths add some retro feels as well, with a complex modern percussion that keeps the track in the here and now. Finally, Ben’s vocals are powerful and dynamic, an intimate and vulnerable first verse soon scrapped for a punchy belt that ascends all the way through those final closing vocal chants that elevate the final chorus.

Best Lyric: “Darling, all I ever dream of is crossing your sea to see you reaching back to me.”