Hey guys, welcome back to another Sunday song review
Today I'm going to be looking at Maggie Rogers new song
she's coming up with a new album but she has just released a new song called
Light On and I'm really really excited I had like a brief listen to it
Already because I was really excited about it because I'm I am a big fan of Maggie Rodgers
But I will play the song right now I'm going to be doing a full review
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Let's get right into it though this song is called Light On by Maggie Rogers
It's a good song so far I really like this
Really really strong things going on here this is a pop song the chorus just dropped right now we're at 40 seconds
typically in a pop song the chorus has to come in before
1 minute long because the chorus is what really people like to sing along to and it's the hook of a song really so it really
makes you like
Want that part to come up in the song because it's the hook
So this is a very a pop song you can see like she has
verse melody, pre chorus melody,
and chorus melody, the strong parts in the song are all the melodies are very different but her voice remains
very
Consistent in range so she's relying on
Her strong melodies to make it a good hook instead of going up and octave with her voice
Which a lot of other artists do, to
Draw in a bit more of a hook because you can maybe push your octave range a little bit and it sometimes
sounds good but
Sometimes it doesn't sound good at all it's very specific to the artist and to the sound
that you want to make. For example,
Let's listen to this pre-chorus here
Right there it's the same octave range as this
But there's more instrumentation in the chorus, which makes it a strong hook. So, I have my guitar here because
if it's a pop song you can likely pick out the chord progression quite easily on the guitar and I can
hear a
Lot of people are honking.
That's the chord progression
That's not bad that you can pick it out as easily like that that just means it's a pop song and relies on
usually like a 1 4 5 or like a 6 4 1
structure.
Leave the light on it's obviously a metaphor with like leaving their relationship on that's what I'm taking from it
And I like the metaphor of leaving the light on
It's a metaphor we've heard before but it's very familiar to one that
we can make sense of but there's a nice like added, reverb effects which make it sound like she's
Behind a little bit like there's a lot of echo behind her voice
pushed forward in the mix like it's really really loud but she's not singing loud so like
she probably recorded her voice singing like at a reasonable
Level but then they just made it really loud in the mix like
When you when I play this probably this second verse here you can hear that
she's not
singing, overly loud but it is quite loud in the mix and everything else in the other instrumentation is behind her voice do you
believe
You should be
Single
nice little
twang
Country twang almost on her voice here
Really really nice I'm not sure if that's a signature Maggie thing
I really like when you hear different things like that in the voice and
She's doing that on purpose to make her voice unique him to make the sound unique like with my voice
When I reach certain levels it trembles and not because
I'm nervous, but that's just something my voice does and that's just something unique that I bring to the
songs.
It's such a also really cool, that light on
Track title it's such a good thing to have in the chorus because
It's a really only my first time listening to it
Ok maybe like first and a half and I already know what she's gonna sing here like I can already start singing along to it
even if it's my first time listening to it so definitely going to be a
popular sing-along song
I think that tops her
Big first hit which was Alaska but this song Light On by Maggie Rogers I think is a going to do really really well
as an alternative pop song the lyrics are good the instrumentation is strong, strong hooks really really good song I like it a lot.
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