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This year’s Song Of The Year Grammy went to this haunting ballad, so I was immediately primed to look out for anything that sets it apart from the crowd in that respect. From a harmonic perspective, the highlight for me is the way the repeating D-C#m-F#m progression of the verse and prechorus sections seems for a moment as if it’ll continue when the chorus starts on another D ma...


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It’s extremely hard to maintain a sense of build-up throughout a whole song’s timeline, so most commercial arrangers do the next best thing, which is creating a series of ‘waves’ of rising performance/arrangement intensity. The crest of each of these waves is typically followed by a sudden arrangement breakdown of some sort, designed to swiftly recalibrate the listener to a lowe...


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I was particulary struck by the warmth and fullness of the bass part that enters with the line “don’t you want me like I want you” at 0:31. Part of this is just a product of the underlying bass-synth programming, which delivers not just a strong fundamental frequency, but also at least five harmonics above it that are healthy enough in level to be clearly visible on a spectrum a...


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So let me get this right: Doechii is currently nominated for Record Of The Year at this year’s Grammy awards for basically re-toplining 2013’s Record Of The Year (Gotye’s 'Somebody That I Used To Know')?! Verily hath sampling finally eaten itself! Yes, I’ve also read plenty of glowing tributes to the quality of that topline, but honestly… I challenge anyone to argue (with a stra...


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Although many people seem to write off mainstream K-Pop hits like this song as musical fluff, there’s actually a lot of quality craftsmanship going on under the surface. Yes, the first minute of the song suggests we might be in for another ‘here we go round IV-I-V-vi’ snoozefest, for instance, but thankfully the chorus brings with it not only a little variety in the chord patter...


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