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(Asylum/Major Toms)

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ON THE biggest single from

Anne-Marie Nicholson’s first album, titled 2002, the clever chorus stitched together the names of six different songs from around that time — instant nostalgia. Two of them were by Britney Spears and the Swedish pop genius Max Martin. It’s a good measure of how far Anne-Marie has come that a key song on her follow-up, Beautiful, was co-written by Martin himself, with a bit of help from a certain Edward Sheeran.

The album is called Therapy because that’s where Anne-Marie has been for the past year, seeking help for her issues with anxiety and body image. But away from the title track you’d barely know anything was troubling her. The cackling star of The Voice sounds brimming with confidence on Who I Am and Kiss My (Uh Oh). The rainbow melodies are plentiful and Anne-Marie acts like nothing’s going to prevent her from becoming a pop superstar.