Welcome back to another song review today. I'm going to be reviewing Sara Bareilles new song called Armor
It's a new single, I don't think she's going to follow with a
New album, but who knows?
it's typical nowadays as a trend that artists are releasing more singles than albums and
That's because just to keep your audience engaged with releasing a single
Every now and then maybe every three or four months. So Sara Bareilles hasn't come out with any
Music I don't think for at least five years, I believe her last album was the Blessed Unrest in 2013
So I like Sara Bareilles
I'm excited to see what her sound is gonna be like, you know between now and five years
I'm sure she's toured and written a lot of songs in that time
But I haven't seen any of them or heard any of them. So I'm excited to get into this song
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Let's get right into it though. This song is called Armor by Sara Bareilles. Play now
It's a great song so far really like this vibe a minute in you can already like see
My body moving and that's two things the drumbeat and also that there's that piano riff happening in the background
That is really like setting the foundation for the song.
That groove and then the drumbeat
There's a change there that picks it up faster and her lyrics are not only cool, but they carry their own.
Rhythm as well. It's almost like in some
Instances there. It's almost like a rap more than she's singing, but she does sing as well
So and her voice is obviously Sara Bareilles voice is really really strong
Now this is really cool so that was a pre-course melody
Which was a shift from the verse melody and now she's going into a third style
Melody that carries the Armor chorus, but I really like the shift in the the second chorus melody
she's doing a chord progression change and
You really noticed that big time when that happens around here
It doesn't play for a while are you using Apple Music or Spotify I use mostly Apple Music.
But I've recently started to use Spotify because I use it with my own music
Check it out, by the way on Spotify. Here we go.
Quite a drastic melody change that really is like, oh that's that sounds really cool
Definitely the song, from the lyrics you can see that it's at least the first verse was a story about
Adam and Eve, and how like at least in the story of Genesis of the Bible how life really started and
In the lyrics here that I just looked up. She said how the hell did Eve end up with all the the damn blame and
then it gets into a verse to
When I hear Armor, I have a lot of imagery of being like the, well, armor
right really tough really strong and I think that's a really cool word to
single out in the chorus and make that the title track of your song because it
gives off a lot of imagery of being very tough and being very strong and that's what she's singing about in the chorus you make
me stronger I try harder and
You're my armor hand me my armor
So it's a positive song in a very positive course that she's I think singing maybe about someone that makes her
Stronger and we don't know who that person is. Maybe we'll find out and rest the song
It's like a pop song but it still has very much of a singer/songwriter
Vibe to it and that's what I get from a lot of Sara Bareilles songs
I'm not sure how she's managed to do that whether it's her writing team or production team
but she's always managed to make these big pop songs that
Can chart in like top 10 of the world. But still it has a real strong
Singer/songwriter vibe to it
And that's something that I would love to do with my music and so I take a lot of influence and inspiration from Sara Bareilles
new melody change from the pre-chorus
Nice nice nice vocal that armor were - exactly rhymes with stronger and really really nice vocal there
And I'm not really sure what she's singing about here in terms of the lyrics because it kind of sounds
more
Like being against someone here instead of someone making her stronger
Just the subtle details the subtle pauses that happen there even this last pause here where you know
From the first two pre-course, that she's going to say "hand me my armor", you know that's going to happen
but she just gives that one second pause where it's like, oh, is it gonna be there and then
Right here
Really really cool song. I like that song a lot. I think that song is going to do really really well
I'm not sure what exactly she's singing about, but we never really know as
Listeners anyways, but she's obviously speaking about someone that makes her stronger
I'm not sure if that's person or if that's something maybe more metaphysical
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