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WHAT’S INSIDE? 3 Haute Looks 6 Face Thing First 8 Game for Anything 10 Not Just Screen Deep 14 Tune In EDITOR’S NOTE Odio is a monthly lifestyle and entertainment magazine based in Singapore. Our writers are DTVM students from Singapore Polytechnic. We talk about films, shows, fashion trends, makeup, and games! 2 ODIO

Haute Looks HOW TO DRESS YOU! A Step Up To Dressing By Qistina Farisha Safrani Binte Mohamed Faizal How To Find Your Body Type! No two snowflakes are the same and they are all beautifully crafted like YOU! There are many misconceptions when identifying what you look like physically. But worry not because we are here to give you insight on your body type and tips and tricks on how to dress YOU! To start, there are 5 common body shapes. A representation of the 5 common body types Credits: Putting Me Together They are the Apple, the Pear, the Inverted Triangle, the Rectangle, and the Hourglass figures. Credits: The Medium A pear-shaped body is when you have hips and thighs that are wider than your shoulders and chest. A square neck or boat neck can help to broaden your shoulders and balance your upper body. A medium light-colored pants could help to accentuate your hips and thighs, and make your legs look longer. To draw less attention to your bottom half, try tops with a more open Jennifer Lopez representing a neckline or shoulder cutting, or even bright colored tops and jackets! pear figure An apple body shape typically has a larger upper than lower body and a minimal waistline. Look for tops with a balanced streamline that are fitted but not skin tight. We recommend showing off your shoulders and collarbone with peplum or Credits: Blogs@Baruch v-necked tops. Try wearing straight-cut jeans to keep a balanced look so that there is no overcompensation of one body part over another. When wearing dresses, Look for flowy fit dresses that are not too lengthy to show off your legs! Kate Winslet representing an apple figure An inverted triangle figure is where you typically have shoulders that are broader than your hips and a bigger top half. Commonly, swimmers tend to carry an inverted triangle figure due to their extensive use of upper body Credits: The Medium muscles. With a broader upper body, a top or a dress with a built-in waist shape, or a lengthened neckline can help to give you an instant hourglass shape for your hips. Avoid fitting bottoms and go for looser fits like bell-bottoms, or Naomi Campbell wide-legged pants. This helps to create balance between your shoulders and representing an your bottom half, giving you a more flattering look. inverted triangle figure ODIO 3

A rectangular figure is where your hips, shoulder and waistline are aligned Credits: EverdayPlush with each other. This is common amongst cheerleaders and weightlifters. Credits: Facebook An easy way to dress the rectangular body is to find balance between the top and bottoms. For example, If you are wearing oversized tops, try skinny fit bottoms instead. Oh, and if you want to cheat your way to looking taller, try dark, skinny or high-waisted pants. Cameron Diaz representing a rectangular figure An hourglass shaped body is when both your hips and shoulder are relatively even and where your waistline is well-defined. Wearing a fitted and structured top will help to accentuate your figure. Tops like V Necks, and keyholes can help to define the upper parts of your body, while flared or skinny fit pants can help to accentuate your curves further. When looking for a jacket, it is your choice on which part of your body you would like to accentuate but we recommend something Sofia Vergara representing belted.an hourglass figure The Three Golden Rules #1: When styling and picking out clothes for yourself, you should always remember balance. Balance between the upper, middle and bottom part of your body is important but can be ignored at times when you wish to accentuate different parts. #2: Jewelries and accessories are a MUST! Why look good if you have Credits: GoogleImages nothing to complement yourself with? Simple jewellery like rings or earrings can help improve your outfit and draw attention to any part of your body. Assorted Jewelries #3: Always match your shoes and your bag with the colour you Matching wear. It is also important that your bag and your shoes ARE the Credits: Prada stripped same colour or at least similar, with some exceptions of course. leather bag and shoe Be Yourself, No One Can Do It For You. Credits: Matilda Ang Matilda Ang Rui Yi is a 19-year-old fashion enthusiast studying in Singapore Polytechnic. According to her, being confident in what you wear does not always mean that you will feel positive about how you look because of the industry definition of “pretty”. She also mentioned that, “What suits others may not suit you, and more than likely, if we all had the perfect figure, it’ll be boring and make us all a perfect carbon copy that loses its uniqueness to self.” We at Odio could not agree more with that! Matilda’s favorite picture of herself taken at Don Don Donki Remember that what looks good on others may not look good on you because of the differences in so many things and THAT IS OKAY! Just wear what makes you, you! Love yourself, love your differences, and the part of you that makes you stand out. YOU have the choice of choosing what to emphasise for your body and you can use it to your best advantage. Find YOUR look, own it and wear it with confidence. Trust me, you’ll thank us. 4 ODIO

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Face Things First FAIREST OF THEM ALL Beauty is beyond skin-deep. But what are different industries doing to influence this mindset in Asian culture? By Shervon Thiam In early 2020, a Korea. With the Hallyu 33-year-old woman Wave washing over Asia, from Manila, Philippines the rise of K-Pop groups passed away after influences Asia’s beauty undergoing Skin standards. Lightening treatment at In the sea of fair skinned a local spa. K-Pop idols, they are Credits: Fair & Lovely Two issues were brought to attention. often said to be the definition of modern First, the issue of harmful Skin Lightening day beauty. Based on a poll on networking “treatments”. The other is the issue to be site Quora, it is said that 9 - 17 is the addressed in this month’s edition of Face general age range of K-Pop fans. With First: Asian culture’s fixation on fair skin. K-Pop groups like AESPA on the cover of “Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest Vogue and BTS on TIME, could these fair one of them all?” skinned beauties influence their young and “Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony, impressionable fanbase to have a fixation Skin white as snow… Snow White!” on fair skin? The famous fairytale princess Snow White Surface Level Beauty In Asian Culture and her title of “fairest of them all” begs The makeup Credits: VOGUE Singapore us to question what does it mean to be the industry can choose fairest of them all in Asian culture. to follow the beauty History Has Its Eyes On You standards that are Going back to Asia’s colonial days, it was being enamoured by Rookie sensation K-Pop group, AESPA. Vogue common to see a fair skinned man and September 2021 ‘Dreamers’ edition assume them to be wealthy. In India, the media or they can diverge, creating new standards. when the British were colonial masters, American makeup brands like Fenty Beauty fair skinned Indians were often hired for and Bobbi Brown have diverged from the administrative or “higher-class” jobs while fair skin trend by offering a wide range those with darker skin were forced to work of foundation skin tones. Can this be said in physical labour jobs that were “low- for Asia? There are three makeup brands class”. With colonialism on the rampage, that are often mentioned in various top 10 this caused many South Asians to adopt the Asian makeup brands lists — Canmake, Clio mindset that fair skinned equaled a life of Cosmetics, and Etude House. Canmake only high-class. has three foundation shades, all in the fair Crashing Like A Hallyu Wave spectrum. Clio Cosmetics has five, also in the fair spectrum. Etude House has four Talking about Asian culture in present day, and just like Canmake and Clio Cosmetics, all there is one country who is setting the foundation shades offered lean towards the trends and standards— Republic of South fair spectrum. 6 ODIO

By having these limited Credits: CanMake In Asia’s makeup industry, Credits: ELYSIAN Fantasy, NCT Fansite options available for the Innisfree expanded in 2017 Asian demographic, it Credits: Clio Cosmetic to have a wider range of enforces the mindset foundations. Though this that fair skin tones are range is not as wide as more popular than others. some American makeup But looking at Asia, there Shades of foundation brands, it is a step in the Popular K-Pop group NCT’s is a whole colour scale of available at respective Haechan with his natural skin skin tones that should be companies as of 2022 right direction. tone, the darker side of the spectrum. Singaporean buyers can choose from a celebrated. Asia’s makeup range of eight; five darker tones and three industry must understand lighter tones. With these small shifts in that Asians have skin tones tide, is the chase for “fairest of them all” that are different from becoming less fair in skin tone and more fairytale princesses or fair in judgement? K-Pop stars. Credits: ETUDE House Fair Judgement Asian culture means representing people The mindset that fair with various skin tones from various skin equals beauty has countries. Credits: Innisfree Singapore dominated Asia since “There is a huge importance placed on colonial times. With wearing makeup in professional settings different moves made such as work and public events. However, Innisfree is a popular Asian by different industries, right now the makeup standards for makeup brand that originated this mindset can either from Korea. This is their Asians are either expanded foundation range in be enforced or erased Singaporean shops. influenced by down the future. Eurocentric or Korean Individuals Credits: Shervon Thiam features which may should know that not work for everyone not everything which in turn make us on screen look very weird and/or or makeup unprofessional for not advertisements Asian culture does not have one face nor one wearing ‘proper makeup’ Gabrielle, aged 22, is an avid are as they skin tone. Asian culture is has a spectrum of makeup user living in Singapore skin tones which should be celebrated or makeup that suits our whose skin tone falls into the seem. And though some members of society darker side of the spectrum. features,” says Gabrielle, may hold to it, beauty standards should an avid makeup user whose skin tone is on always be defined by the individual and not the the darker spectrum. others. Is There A Shift In The Tide? The K-Pop scene has Haechan from NCT BONUS QUIZ who is not on the fair side of the spectrum. OF THE Though Haechan is the only member in his MONTH group of 23 that is on the darker end, this difference in skin tone is often celebrated. ODIO 7

Game For Anything THE APPEAL OF GENSHIN IMPACT A game as contagious (but nowhere near as dangerous) as COVID-19 By Megan Lim Our Dream, Every Parent’s Nightmare Credits: KnowYourMeme.com We’ve all heard about the 18-year-old Singaporean girl who racked up $20,000 on her father’s credit card on the game Genshin Impact. If you’re a fellow Genshin player, you definitely had to endure glares from your parents. But what draws us to You pretending that you’ve never the game so much that we would willingly spend $20,000 on it? dreamed of spending $20,000 on Genshin First Things First, What’s Genshin Impact? For the two people living under a rock, Genshin is an open- Credits: Genshin Impact world fantasy role-playing game created by Chinese game developer, Mihoyo. According to BBC, it earned $1 billion within six months of its release on 28 September 2020, from mobile users alone. For comparison, Fortnite’s mobile version took nearly two years to earn the same. So, you Outside the city of Mondstadt, the first place know, it’s a little popular. players get to explore The Draw Credits: Genshin Impact Genshin is a vast, Credits: Genshin Impact exploration-based world with rewards and challenges scattered A hidden cave filled with precious ores and rare strategically around. In the city of Liyue during the Lantern Rite. The colours butterflies. were chosen to pop, like an anime. Whenever players find chests or hidden caves, they’re hit with a rush of dopamine because adventure is sorely missing in many of our daily lives, and Genshin fills that void perfectly. Escapism! We all agree that the real world sucks; it’s stressful, Credits: Genshin Impact messy, and burning in the grips of a worldwide pandemic. Sometimes, we just need to disconnect from reality. Genshin’s three regions — Mondstadt, Liyue, and Inazuma — are full of landscapes stunning enough to make us forget In front of Mt Aocang in Liyue. Many of Genshin’s our worries. It’s an idyllic, idealised world that we can landscapes evoke a sense of peace and tranquillity. escape into. “Imagine you ha[d] a bad day,” Natalie, a 22-year-old university student who started playing in August 2021, said, “Just get on Genshin, you have some fun, you play with your friends, it kind of brightens up your day”. She also “leave[s] [the game] on for the music” because “it’s one of [her] favourite aspects”. She says that listening to her favourite tracks “over and over again” is “the best feeling”. 8 ODIO

Yu-Peng Chen, the game’s composer, said in an interview with Video Game Music Online that he wanted to create “beautiful melodies” full of “hope and passion” to “move the players”, and he definitely succeeded. Natalie cried during the last part of a quest, where a character sang Chinese Opera. If you think we’re exaggerating, just listen to Adeptus’ Retirement and you’ll understand the true meaning of “music heals the soul”. Kinning Very simply, “kinning” a character is when you feel a deep connection to them, to the point where you feel like you are the character. People kin for fun, but it’s also comfort- ing to find a character that represents you. There’re 47 characters in Genshin, each with different personalities and backstories. “There is a character for everyone,” Natalie feels, and for her, that character is Ayato, an aristocrat from Inazuma. She already has “a few hundred dollars” saved for him from her Chinese New Year red packets. Players are willing to spoil their kins with better weapons and constellations (duplicates of the same character that increases their abilities) because it’s fun to play as a power- ful character, especially when that character is literally you. However, these items can only be attained through wishing using Primogems (game currency). Wishes are randomised, so players aren’t guaranteed the desired weapon or character. Once Primogems are used up, real money can be used to buy Genesis Crystals, which can be exchanged for Primogems. Unsurprisingly, Natalie is “eyeing the [two most] expensive” ones for Ayato. Community Shenanigans Genshin’s greatest strength is its ability to create a sense of community. Players trade tips on good character builds and farm for artifacts together. Artifacts boost a character’s health, attack, and other stats. They can only be attained by fight- ing enemies. No matter what friend group you’re in, there’s no stronger bonding experi- ence than beating up giant monsters with everyone barely surviving. Natalie says that whenever she plays with friends, “sometimes it’s just shit-talk[ing], sometimes it’s just screaming,” but “it’s fun”. Pulling for characters with Genshin buddies is a truly chaotic and wonderful experience. Most A set-up consisting of a Zhongli stand, players have some sort of ritual before pulling, manifestation circle, Primogems, and it’s surreal to watch them do it. But as they Credits: Megan Lim and ‘osmanthus is say, the best friends are the ones you can be wine’ (soju), which Zhongli’s favourite weirdest with, and that applies to communities as well, no matter how big. Public Service Announcement While the appeal of Genshin Impact might be worth $20,000, the beating we will receive from our Asian parents is definitely not. So here’s a quick PSA: set a budget and spend within your means. Or if you have zero self-control, simply don’t play the game. In this situation, it’s best to let our dreams be dreams. At least until we start earning our own money. ;) ODIO 9

THINGS FOUND IN GENSHIN Across: 2 5,10 6,15 Down: 9. Honey-coloured fossilised 9 7 1. Something you find under resin 1,16 4,17 your bed 10. Starbucks cup size 8 14 2. Most of Henry VIII’s wives, 11. Mood stabiliser 11 but with K and Y 12. A group of stars 3. Base of thumb fracture 13. Moving from one place to 3 4. Stone people another in a split second 12 5. The name of an MCU hero 14. Levi’s singular ___ 6. What you do when you blow 15. Complaining without the H 13 out birthday candles 16. Legends, folklore 7. Floaty Lights 17. What we lost to school 8an. SglripypAesrisaninptahreenhtands of an WE NEED MORE CHARACTERS WITH A CORRUPTION ARC By Alicia Khoo If you watch movies or shows, chances are you’ve heard of redemption arcs where villains learn from their mistakes and join the heroes. Honorary mentions include Avatar’s Zuko and Marvel’s Loki. Redemption arcs teach us that growth is not linear. And while it’s a good message, it gets repetitive. Because sometimes we just want to see characters embrace chaos. If you’re one of those people, then let me introduce you to Little Nightmares, a puzzle-platform horror adventure game released by Tarsier Studios on 28 April 2017. Little Nightmares is filled with a beautifully terrifying art style, haunting music, and amazing animated characters. If you liked Limbo or Inside, then you’ll love this! The game follows Six, a tiny girl trying to escape the Maw, a monstrous place filled with towering obstacles and grotesque antagonists, where everything and everyone is trying to kill her. It shows that corruption arcs can be just as nuanced as redemption arcs, if not more so, as we get to see characters lose themselves to madness. We might even find ourselves excusing some of their behaviours as we slowly get used to their “evil deeds” and understand what drives them to do what they do. 10 ODIO Credits: Little Nightmares DOWN: MONSTERS. KATHERYNE. BENNETT. STATUE. VISION. WISH. LANTERNS. WEAPON. ACROSS: AMBER. VENTI. SEROTONIN. CONSTELLATIONS. TELEPORT. JEAN. WINE. MYTHS. SANITY.

Not Just Screen Deep DIGGING DEEPER INTO DISNEY What Encanto taught us about generational trauma and how to break the cycle By Alicia Khoo Why Disney Is So Popular Disney has always been a Say “hello” household name, and we at Odio to Luisa, believe it stems from their Mirabel’s ability to tap into universal older experiences and weave them sister and into their stories. the middle child. Luisa’s arc It’s no secret that Disney’s follows her journey with been exploring more difficult learning that she doesn’t topics aimed at older need to shoulder everything. audiences. Which brings us to In ‘Surface Pressure’, she Disney’s latest movie, Encanto. admits that she’s buckling It was released in cinemas on where every family under the weight of their 24 November 2021, bringing member has a unique in $90.6 million in the U.S. family’s expectations and Gift . . . well, almost every that she’s “pretty sure [she’s] and $194.8 million worldwide. family member. Frozen’s ‘Let It Go’ — a song worthless if [she] can’t be of everyone knows the lyrics by heart to, whether against their Mirabel service”. will or not — was dethroned by Madrigal Thankfully, in the end, Luisa Encanto’s ‘We Don’t Talk About is the only learns how to communicate Bruno’. Madrigal her worries with her sisters without a and shares the load with Gift. them. Mirabel’s journey is one Next, of self-acceptance. When Isabela, she doesn’t get a Gift, her Mirabel’s family — mainly Abuela eldest sister — or “Señorita and Isabela — begins to Perfecta,” The Family Madrigal ostracise her. In ‘Wait- according to Mirabel. But ing On A Miracle’, Mirabel don’t be fooled by Isabela’s Disney’s never shied away from creating chaotic family expresses her “unspo- facade because in ‘What Else dynamics where the family’s ken invisible pain” at not Can I Do?’ Isabela, shares differences can make or break having a Gift. Yet as the that she is marrying Mariano their world. (Examples include: story progresses, we see for the sake of the family The Incredibles and Brave.) Mirabel begin to accept and not because she loves But as far as chaotic family herself as she sheds her him. As the story progresses, dynamics go, Encanto takes the need to please Abuela. Mirabel helps Isabela let But Mirabel isn’t the only go of her people-pleasing cake. Meet the Madrigals! A one who suffers from mindset and be true to multigenerational household generational trauma. herself. ODIO 11

Meet Pepa, Lastly, Abuela, she wasn’t close with Mirabel’s aunt, the matriarch her sisters at all due to who’s mood of the family. them being too young affects the She’s introduced to understand. She says, weather. as someone “The only regret I Throughout the movie, we who prioritises have is that I didn’t see Pepa trying to control her family’s try [to communicate and stop herself from appearance more than their with them].” feeling negative emotions so well-being. she doesn’t upset her mother. But, at the end of the movie, But as the story progresses, Abuela comes clean about she starts standing up for what really happened on the herself, telling Abuela that traumatic night that she lost she’s trying her best. In the her husband. It helps Mirabel end, she doesn’t try to force understand her Abuela better her emotions down and instead and empathise with her. And while that does not excuse embraces them. her treatment of her family Natasha and her sisters, Alicia (right) and For Bruno, he is members, it does explain why Eliza (left). the black sheep she is the way she is. Abuela of the family. ends up recognising Mirabel’s Thankfully, Natasha ended The one who efforts and apologising to up reaching out to her gets blamed the family for “holding on too sisters later on and she for everything, tight.” and her two sisters are whether it’s his fault or not. That’s why he sees Breaking The Cycle closer than ever. himself in Mirabel. Because she Generational trauma can Similar to how Mirabel took over the role of the black happen to any family, but managed to get her sheep when he disappeared to that doesn’t mean it cannot sisters to open up to her protect her. And despite the be fixed. Breaking the cycle about their suppressed hurt and trauma he faced, he can start from having open emotions. All it really takes is one person to pushes that all aside to help conversations with said Mirabel. He tells her that “she’s family members about their break the generational exactly what the family needs” experiences and learning why trauma, and while it and takes the blame for the they feel the way they feel. doesn’t erase the hurt Natasha Khoo, they experienced, it can Casita — their house — being 27, shares her help them grow closer as a destroyed when he confronts experience of family. Abuela, even though it’s not true. what it was like to be the black sheep of her family and kicked out at 22. Back then, Encanto Photo Credits: Disney Wiki 12 ODIO

Euphoria: HBO’s Gen Z GoT Successor By Lou Si Yuan After Game of Thrones went off the air release. Even those who in May 2019, American broadcasting haven’t watched a single company, HBO, lost its big headliner. The minute of the show are show, based on George R. R. Martin’s aware of the broad strokes series of novels, brought record breaking of the premise thanks to viewership to HBO and has been dubbed trends like the “Euphoria ‘one of the greatest shows of all time’ by High School uniform” critics. It’s 8-year run created one of the tiktoks that were paired largest and most passionate fanbases in with audio from Spongebob, the world, which is why there was such a meant to mock the less large outcry when fans found the ending than modest dress code of of the show to be unsatisfactory. After students in the high school that, many anticipated what HBO’s next act set in the show. would be after such a record-breaking TV run. Enter, Euphoria. Sam Levinson’s drug- addled teen drama. Premiering a month after the end of Game of Thrones, the show generated an insane amount of hype in the first season, which allowed its second season to break the record for the largest digital premiere of any HBO episode on HBO Max. Driven by a compelling ensemble of characters, gorgeous fever dream aesthetic visuals, a soundtrack produced by Grammy-nominated R&B singer Labrinth and a talented all-star cast consisting of entertainment A-listers like Zendaya (who doesn’t love Zendaya???), Jacob Elordi, Maude Apatow, Dominic Fike and Eric Dane (yes, Grey’s McSteamy is in this one). Since its release, it has generated a cult- like fandom among millennials and Gen Z alike, with audiences flooding social media sites with commentary and memes about each episode of the show after its weekly Credits: HBO ODIO 13

Tune In TAYLOR SWIFT AND THE ART OF S Long Story Short Taylor’s music is here By Lou Si Y Everybody knows Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift attends the “All Too Well” New York Premier Pop princess extraordinaire and probably the biggest musical artist of the 21st century. Love her or hate her, you’ve definitely heard her name and her songs on the radio or playing in stores. Unless you live under a rock, you’re probably familiar with at least a handful of her songs. If you’re a big fan, you can probably name her entire discography in order of release. Taylor’s music has influenced so many rising artists of the next generation, such as 2021’s 18-year-old chart topper Olivia Rodrigo and indie pop, soft boy Conan Gray. Her influence on 21st century pop and pop culture (ahem don’t lie we can all name at least 3 of her exes and we don’t talk about the Kanye thing) is undeniable. But how exactly did a girl from West Reading, Pennsylvania win 11 Grammys (3 of which were Album of the year- which she now ties for the record), 34 American Music Awards, 25 Billboard Music Awards and set 55 Guinness World Records? The answer? Her ability to tell stories through her songs. Both casual and avid listeners of her music can tell you all about her critically acclaimed song ‘All Too Well’, which is dubbed one of her all time best songs. It recently received a re-release alongside all of the tracks from her 2012 album ‘Red’. In this re-released album, titled ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’, Taylor also released an extended 10 min version of the song, appropriately titled ‘All Too Well (10 Min Version) (Taylor’s Version)’. Credit: Taylor Swift Official Store In this extended cut, Taylor gives more details of a tumultuous relationship journey, long suspected Poster for the All Too Well (10 min version) (Taylor’s version) to be about her relationship with Actor Jake music video Gyllenhaal. As the song plays out, she describes specific scenes from the relationship. Instead of explaining to the listener what she felt, she puts them in her position by painting an image of the relationship and allowing them to feel how she felt by vicariously living through her lyrics for 10 minutes. The lyrics are raw and vulnerable, with lines 14 ODIO

STORYTELLING THROUGH MUSIC e to stay for Evermore (feat. Bon Iver) Yuan like ‘You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath’ and ‘did the twin flame bruise paint you blue? Just between us, did the love affair maim you, too?’ That in a nutshell is how Taylor’s music stands out. Her songs tell entire stories, pulling listeners in the way films and novels do, bringing them along on an emotional journey that leaves you blown away when it ends. Credits: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty “When folklore came out, I truly appreciated her lyrics and writing Images because it was so clever. I love music that holds meaning or when the writer tells a story, like Halsey when [she] writes music, it tells a story, I’ll eat that s*it up, man, so I guess it’s really their ability to tell a story through their music”. Longtime Swiftie, Safia, 20, says of Taylor’s music, “her music has such a wide range, its always something new” and re on November 12, 2021 in New York City. that “you’re able to find a song to describe a specific feeling or situation you’re in that I haven’t quite been able to find with other artists” with her songs. Enchanted To Meet You Taylor’s ability to draw from her experiences and relate them to universal emotions everybody experiences also helps her create a sense of relatability to her listeners. You may not have experienced a breakup like she’s talking about, but the way she describes the feeling of lost love with lines like ‘leaving like a father, running like water’ or ‘loving him is like trying to change your mind once VALENTINE SPECIAL you’re already flying Whether you’re planning to confess to The through the free fall, One or to send a cute message to your like the colours of partner, Odio has got just the thing for you. autumn so bright just Grab your phone and scan the following before you lose it all’ Spotify code! This leads you to our playlist paints listeners a very for Valentines Day 2022. (Psstt… if you line vivid scene to imagine what she’s up the first 8 songs, it will also reveal a describing. Ensuring that the message secret message). Happy Valentines Day… that she’s trying to carry across to her listeners is delivered effectively. ODIO 15