Jason Klaire Took a Psychedelically Sweet Slice out of Pop with ‘Taking a Piece of the Pie’ –

Take a pop jaunt with Jason Klaire’s latest eccentrically liberated and razor-sharp single, Taking a Piece of the Pie. Klaire took what started as a silly inside joke about desserts and transfigured it into a kaleidoscopic satire on greed and the sickening wealth divide, without ever weighing the listener down in rhetoric. Instead, the message cuts through in a fever dream of psychedelic wit, laced with sticky-sweet hooks and melodies that are silly in all the right places.

What Klaire serves up here is less of a pie and more of a layered trifle of sound. Playful vocal exchanges between the thief, the owner, and the officer fold into a confection of buoyant basslines, driven percussion, and candy-coated polyphony that shimmers with parable and parody alike. The song keeps you grinning at its cheekiness while subtly nudging you to consider how the pie of the world’s wealth keeps getting sliced.

That double quality defines Klaire as a songwriter: the ability to entertain with quirky absurdity while threading in uncomfortable truths. It’s pop as social commentary but dressed in rainbow colours, refusing to lecture and choosing instead to satirise with silliness and charm. With his knack for writing songs that straddle the line between humour and hard truths, Klaire has shaped something undeniably addictive here.

Taking a Piece of the Pie is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast