What I love: the jazz toned voice, sweet melancholy of the lyrics, and air-tight performance….
BTW, Grace is just as mesmerizing live, with every eerie nuance and pitch perfect word sung as beautiful as the record.
and here is your cool music nerd stuff:
the opening arpeggio shifts between “a” minor (with the suspension on the down beat) and a short Ab major run, (which is mostly suspension and syncopated). The syncopation and difference between the two arpeggios makes the harmony seem more dramatic to the ear.
Like Lana del Rey’s “Video Games”, this song is stunning because the harmony is so simple that when the chorus hits (chorus is a – a/G – F) it feels like fresh air.
The opening arpeggio cranks through the chorus, and all the swirling color of the suspensions mixed with the lyric : I move in slow motion.
it hits hard.
then the drums come in and I freak.
seriously, amazingly, good.
Now you have heard an artist infinitely better then Lana del Rey. more talented. more inherently beautiful.
lets hope the side of the 7-11 is plastered with her image sooner then later.
