Tag: Lea Michele

Lea Michele – Run To You

“She has a style, and it works.”

Tim: Lea (off Glee, and Cannonball) has a style, and it works. It is demonstrated by this, and also by all but two of the tracks on her new album.

Tom: Yep, that’s a rejected Adele single right there.

Tim: She has a strong voice, and she knows that. She doesn’t want any big instrumentation to take attention away from it, so beyond a piano line, occasional drumbeats and the odd string section, it’s all her, right up until the closing chorus when we’re all in for the big finish. And my word, does that work.

Tom: It does, and you’re absolutely right about her voice — and she’ll be able to do it live, too — but it’s impossible not to compare this against other Big Vocal Tracks, and I can’t help feeling that the producers should have gone for a big chorus on the first verse. The energy it has just slips away.

Tim: Perhaps, but that almost makes it better when it does come back at the end. And so while it does make for a same-y album, if same-y is this strength of ballads, I really don’t care.

Lea Michele – Cannonball

This song would have a key change.

Tim: You may not be aware, but Sia Furlong (probably best known for being part of David Guetta feat. Sia) has been rather big in the world of pop these past twelve months, particularly on the writing front. Amongst many others, she wrote Loved Me Back To Life last summer, and there’s also this, sung by her off Glee who now wants to be a proper pop star.

Tim: That’s a GREAT track, isn’t it? Musically, certainly – that’s an incredibly powerful voice and a melody that’s perfectly suited to it.

Tom: Yes, although it took me a few bars to get used to that odd rhythm. Even at three and a half minutes, I feel it outstays its welcome a little: key changes aren’t in vogue right now, but if they were, this song would have one.

Tim: Lyrically, well, a cannonball’s an interesting thing to be aeronautically comparing yourself to – yes, it’ll keep going and knock away anything in its way which I suppose is the main point, but it’ll also come back down to earth fairly quickly and probably never ever get up again. ‘Jumbo jet’, mind – that would fit.

Tom: Mm, but even that comes down to earth. Moon? Space station? Geostationary satellite?

Tim: “I’ll fly like a geostationary satellite.” Tom, we should go into songwriting.

Aside from that that, though, no complaints, because it’s a lovely song with mostly good words and and great sound. And as for Sia, well, she probably can’t beat our lyrics, but there’s an album out this year so hopefully that’ll be brilliant as well.