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genre: hip hop / easy listening
release date: 12/02/24
runtime: 4:27
video: no :(
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not entirely sure how to kick this one off other than to say that we’re continuing our streak here, finding some really cool songs that are very much not like what’s been featured here previously. got a super interesting track from a subscriber with barely any listeners to their name. let’s change that shall we? before we get into that tho, just a note to the artists out there, please, i beg you, have easily accessible photos. it makes you sooooo much more likely to get press if you have photography that ppl can just grab! easy thing! have a photo! any photo! it doesn’t even have to be you it can be anything please i beg! anyway, that out the way, let’s dive in to this song by bian coast & samira, a really chill hip hop rnb song by the name of cold ghost.
this song does something that i haven’t seen many songs manage to do as successfully as this, and it makes it look easy. that is, it’s got a really clear sense of escalation that steps itself up a notch each verse without having to expend any effort, it just gets intrinsically more intense. that’s accomplished by the main vocalist who verse on verse goes from a really chill vocal hook all the way up to a rapping verse that really goes very hard. this songwriting tactic gives the song so much of it’s momentum and energy, taking something that would otherwise be a really low key affair into a tune with a ton of bite. the backdrop of the second vocalist and melancholy piano ballad does a great job of keeping it grounded and giving the, at times, pretty fiery main vocal something to contrast against.
it’s one thing to write something that is fast and heavy, it’s another thing to make something seem fast even when it’s standing still. the use of tons of backing vocals to thicken the mix out gives the song tons and tons of tone that turn it into quite a moment of some really pretty melody. the harmonies are done with a great sense of flair. speaking of flair, that final chorus really gives this song a hugeeee send off that is only amplified by the really neat chord progression landing on each main lyric, emphasising the main message of the tune before tapering off into a lovely piano moment. it’s a song that takes very little with it to get going, and doesn’t need much more.
this song was missing a hook-y sting like nothing else. the vocal melody in the chorus was cute and all, but it barely landed in my head and let me tell you if you had a lil piano riff or something to cement it? ohh man. even! even, a sax melody, something super simple and hook-y, you’d be cooking with gas. you’d be hooking the song up to a large butane burner, and you’d be lighting it with a lighter, which you were told was safe weren’t you. they told you it was safe, it’s not that hot! it can’t be, it’s only a fire, it’s nothing, it’s not like, the sun, or whatever. no, so on you go, you silly little boy you, lighter in hand, pocket full of dreams and a head full of hope. you just lit that sucker up, and woomf, off it went. visible from space, it was. visible, from space. thats this song with a little bit of a hook landing in there, on a wee tenor sax or a piano or a guitar or, something.
i don’t even really know what they’re saying but i feel it. i’m a bit sleepy so perhaps i’m vulnerable, but so are they. just a little gang of vulnerable people hanging out here.
i went off on that whole thing about the sax, and it just made me think of this youtube video with kermit the frog and miles davis on the trumpet and the more i think of it and listen to this, the more i think it’s there. dunno why, don’t think it’s a great comparison musically speaking, but spiritually? spiritually, it’s there.
there’s a lot of cool stuff to enjoy here. this is an artist that has a really defined sound and style, and it really works. the melancholic piano is pretty ubiquitous, as are the really solid beats, but it’s all done in a really genuine way that makes it work. there’s such potential for a lot of this to slip into a really cringe over-earnest place but it doesn’t. instead it just rides that wave and enjoys doing it. defo check out the song fall, it’s got some really great production on it.
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can’t explain it, but this absolutely absolutely goes. the weird tones and sounds bop up and down on the absolutely killer beat and i love it.
sort of, car ad-core? but really good, i’d buy this car
all i’m saying is brat was no accident.
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