“Anything” - JW Paris
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With Anything, JW Paris hit that rare sweet spot between nostalgia and immediacy—reviving the swagger of 90s Britpop without ever sounding like a tribute act. The London three-piece (featuring Gemma Clarke, formerly of Babyshambles and Adam Ant) lean into their dirty, street-lit, guitar-first identity, but this time with a clarity of purpose that feels like a band fully stepping into its skin.
The track arrives like a late-summer night in Soho: neon reflections on wet pavement, cigarette haze, pub doors swinging open, and the sense that anything could happen—or fall apart—in the next thirty minutes.
The references are unmistakable but also well-earned. The angular bite of Elastica, the London dirt-pop charm of Blur, the anthemic, arms-wide-open lift of Oasis, and the dark shimmer of Joy Division, lingering beneath the brightness.
But what makes Anything resonate isn’t what it borrows, it's the way it lives in the tension between swagger and isolation. This isn’t rose-tinted Britpop. This is Britpop after last call—hungover, aware, still fighting.
The core idea threads through identity, reinvention, and the emotional vertigo of possibility:
“I could be anything, but everything is nothing…”
There’s both defiance and vulnerability, the way youth often is loud on the outside, quietly unraveling underneath. The chorus loops in circles—“around and around”—mirroring the feeling of being stuck inside someone else’s orbit, caught between dreams and the dull gravity of real life. This is rebellion but also resignation. This is confidence but also collapse.
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JW Paris have had impressive traction already with support from BBC Radio 1, 6 Music, Radio X and nearly 100k streams on Spotify. Anything feels like a level up—the track that could shift them from cult-followed to outright breakout. It’s anthemic, but not polished into emptiness. It’s nostalgic, but not derivative. It’s alive, restless, searching—and very, very human.
Anything is Britpop for the modern moment. Sharp-edged, emotionally charged, endlessly replayable, and tuned to the quiet chaos of trying to figure out who you are. It doesn’t just sound like London. It feels like London.
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