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After recently giving props to both Geese and Zara Larsson, The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger<\/a> has now given love to Sam Fender.<\/p>\n Back in 2022, Fender supported The Rolling Stones at BST Hyde Park<\/a> in London, and since then, Jagger has seemingly kept a close eye on the North Shields singer-songwriter\u2019s development. <\/p>\n While Fender was already hugely successful at that time, he\u2019s now become a stadium-dwelling, Mercury Prize-winner who has also been at the top of the UK Singles Chart for months with his Olivia Dean collaboration, \u2018Rein Me In\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking to NME<\/a>, Jagger was full of admiration for Fender, sharing, \u201cI\u2019ve had my Sam Fender moments lately. I thought that album (People Watching) was excellent, earlier stuff I liked, y\u2019know Seventeen Going Under, there\u2019s some good stuff on that album.\u201d<\/p>\n He elaborated, \u201cIt\u2019s kind of rock music, y\u2019know, it is rock music but it\u2019s kind of good choruses and things, which is part of the game, and what I try and do. Not every song, but some of them you do. I think a lot of the lyrics are really interesting, reflective of your own experiences growing up and all that. I mean, there\u2019s a point where you are going to have to move on from that.\u201d<\/p>\n Jagger added, \u201cHe\u2019s obviously very pop orientated, he\u2019s not only doing working class songs, the song he did with Olivia Dean was very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n He then singled out \u2018Crumbling Empire<\/a>\u2018 from People Watching as a personal favourite, which the rock legend described as \u201clyrically interesting\u201d.<\/p>\n Last week, Jagger also gave praise to Geese<\/a>, telling GQ, \u201cGeese, everyone\u2019s talking about them. They\u2019re very experimental, Geese, really. I mean, for a rock band. I quite like it.\u201d<\/p>\n He then explained how the band surprised his expectations in a positive way, adding, \u201cI heard all the talk about it, and as soon as the record, [Getting Killed], came out, I was expecting it to be more indie. I wasn\u2019t expecting it to be quite that out there, but I admire that.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to sharing his admiration of Geese, Jagger also provided a further glimpse into the contemporary artists that he\u2019s currently enjoying, singling out Rosal\u00eda<\/a> as a personal favourite.<\/p>\n Jagger continued, \u201cI mean, there\u2019s also a lot of good women singers who have done great recently. Look at Rosalia\u2019s album [Lux]. That was something really conceptual, really interesting. And she really pulled it off, and I really admire her for doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n On the topic of new music, The Rolling Stones\u2019 new album,\u00a0Foreign Tongues, is set for release on July 10th.<\/p>\n
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