Emmeline - Can't Catch Me Now!

[DSmolken]

Actually... I don't know what makes this one great, but I keep coming back to it. The beat is stylistically just right but not anything spectacular, the lyrics don't really make linear sense, the rhymes aren't especially dense and the flow isn't impressively fast. But it's a great song IMO.

So... I don't know, feel free to throw out your own ideas (or just tell me the song isn't any good, heh). The best I got is that it feels like it's making sense with a bunch of ideas that you realize are connected while listening ("off white" or "little stars" repeating), but it's also sufficiently illogical that it creates a sense of mystery that the listener wants to crack. The second line "I'm amazed by the stranger of your face" is really the perfect example of this, and then you go down the rabbit hole of wondering what does chainmail have with being impossible to catch, and if she's free from the chase why is she still running?

 

[Dzilizzi]

Not really my kind of music. It is kind of like a background vocal with talking. The music is too repetitive and there's no real singing. As a singer, part of what attracts me to a song is if I can sing along with it. This is not really something I can sing along to.

That said, my opinion is a little old now. I don't really like urban, electronica, dance and rap. Disco was really pushing it, but some was good. However, sine can be good music to dance to at a club. I was going out to clubs still when dance music was starting out. I could see the appeal while dancing.

Edit: I should also say, I've found I don't really pay attention to lyrics so much. I'm more a melody and beat person.

 

[DSmolken]

Heh, admittedly, I was deliberately trying to talk about some "younger" style of music than we usually do, even if this is a pretty separate part of the industry from what songwriters do (though of course some people here have produced hip-hop etc, myself included) And in this case, it's a typical four-chord loop with varying dynamics and arrangement, and the lyrics are a pretty good example of what Max Martin has said that lyrics don't need to make sense as long as they sound good... in this case, though, I do think it's not just that they sound good, though phrases like "I'm an actress, I'm a mythic creature/I'm a statuesque monolithic feature" do. It's that by not making clear sense (maybe it's just oblique and obscure references) they do create a desire to figure out what they might mean. And the hook melody is fairly catchy, with the call and response stuff also meaning there's more going on than the typical hook.

In that sense, the lyrics kinda remind me of the Sisters of Mercy's "Dominion".

 

[Dzilizzi]

Heh, admittedly, I was deliberately trying to talk about some "younger" style of music than we usually do, even if this is a pretty separate part of the industry from what songwriters do (though of course some people here have produced hip-hop etc, myself included) And in this case, it's a typical four-chord loop with varying dynamics and arrangement, and the lyrics are a pretty good example of what Max Martin has said that lyrics don't need to make sense as long as they sound good... in this case, though, I do think it's not just that they sound good, though phrases like "I'm an actress, I'm a mythic creature/I'm a statuesque monolithic feature" do. It's that by not making clear sense (maybe it's just oblique and obscure references) they do create a desire to figure out what they might mean. And the hook melody is fairly catchy, with the call and response stuff also meaning there's more going on than the typical hook.

In that sense, the lyrics kinda remind me of the Sisters of Mercy's "Dominion".

I know. I am an old fuddy duddy. LOL!

I can't wait until the next phase of music. Actually there are a lot of decent singers out there now. I really need to start listening to some of it.