Olivia Dean is the latest winner of the Grammy for Best New Artist, but here we already knew that her music was worthy of recognition. On a commercial level, the British artist lacks little. ‘Man I Need’ was one of the biggest hits of 2025 and is currently third on the Hot 100, but it is by no means the only gem from ‘The Art of Loving’. ‘So Easy (To Fall In Love)’ is the Song of the Day.
It’s one thing to reach the top 10 of the British charts with a song that hasn’t even been released as a single. It is quite another to position the same song at number 9 on Spotify’s Global Top 50 and at number 16 on the Hot 100. The charming ‘So Easy’ has achieved it on its own merits. It’s a great pop song, yes, but it’s far from formulaic.
It opens with a brief intro of trumpets and electric guitar to move on to the very classic base that runs through the entire song, with an acoustic that moves in the realm of jazz, bossa nova… The result is pure class everywhere. Someone wrote in the YouTube comments that it’s the kind of song that makes you “miss a relationship you never had,” and it couldn’t be more accurate.
Meanwhile, Dean puts “the icing on the cake” in the lyrics, describing herself as the perfect person to fall in love with: “I’m the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life / Anyone with a heart would agree.” She keeps it simple: “It’s so easy to fall in love with me / So hit me up,” she sings in the chorus. At the moment, we are head over heels in love with his music.
