The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic | Musicians React & Analyze

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[00:00:04]Today's song is a request by Diane, one of our supporters on by Mikafi. Thank you for your support and for your suggestion. She was very excited about this song. This is the police. We've never done uh this band. We've done I think maybe just one sting song on this channel and we but we've never done his band. So uh it's going to be our first time listening. I actually I'm not sure if I listen to a police song from the beginning to the end ever. So probably uh probably it's overdue. We have to definitely listen to it and then if you liked it and if you guys liked it, we can definitely do more. But this one is every little thing she Does is magic.

[00:01:01]Oh, I've tried before to tell her the feelings I have for her in my heart.

[00:01:12]Every time that I come near her, I just lose my nerve as I've done from the start.

[00:01:20]Heat.

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[00:01:44]How did you tell the story of a thousand rainy days since we first met a umbrella that ends up getting Let's just wait here before this. Oh my god. So many surprises for me. So many from the instrumentation to the harmony.

[00:02:34]Oh my god. And the layering and the oh my god bass. I can just talk about all of them for a long time. But I have no idea if this is like a typical police genre or style or this is different. I have no idea. But I loved it so far. I honestly came with a little bit of like I'm probably not going to like it that much, but I actually really really loved it. so far. Yeah.

[00:03:00]>> Well, for me, I mean that it had so many things that I also want to talk about, especially when we are finished. But the one of the first things that caught my attention was the ballads. It was like I'm hearing one music like not the music and the singer. It's like I I was hearing a whole thing and the singer part was one of the part of or one of the layers of the instrument instrumentation that wasn't even like the most important one at least balancewise.

[00:03:38]Um, I mean, you could hear that the music is like over his voice and uh, it's like maybe maybe you're in a in a room that the instruments are playing near you and you can hear somebody singing from outside or something and it's it was coming from it. It had not even the balance. It had like this feeling or this effect of coming from another room like the different acostic or different approach uh to the thing and the thing that was helping you to not lose the singing part and not like see I cannot hear really what he's saying or what what the line is and you you you could really still hear it really good was first of all the kind of voice that he was using the the voice color that he was using which which was really different to the other instruments parts. Uh you know the one of the things that you can do in the music to make you pop or make you more hear level for the audience is to play louder or like sing louder or do something louder. But the other thing is that to do something different either from the articulation or from the color or uh do something that is really different from the other uh instruments or other people so that you're popping out even though you're not the loudest uh part. And I think that was what that he was doing. And also the way that he was singing was really like inunciating the the words really good and you could really even though it wasn't so loud you could really hear and uh you could really follow what he's saying. Yeah, it's very interesting the this Yeah, balance was also like really caught my attention the in the beginning. I want to talk about the harmony at the end because I still want to see what happens and maybe we can look at the chords a little bit. But the one thing that was surprising for me, and again, I'm so curious to see what's gonna happen later on, is how like piano heavy it was. But I didn't see who's playing it. Uh, so I'm guessing that's not a band member maybe because I'm guessing the guitar and drums and the bass and the singers are the main people there. But it was very interesting the combination of those all those instruments back to back. Even though each of these instruments are can be really like the main instrument, they were not overcrowding or like competing with each other. Even though they they had different lines like they each of them had like very independent lines rhythm wise and melody wise. And the bass also had very beautiful kind of melodic moments because I think one of the reasons was like usually in the bass they usually have like a guitar bass or if there is a double bass they use piticado but it was so unique to see that he was actually playing with the bow. So that like stretch of note instead of just one plucking moment, that stretch of the sound was really feeling like a melody instead of just like I'm just supporting the harmony here and there. So that was definitely like those two things very very uh unique to my ears for now. But I'm just going to hold any other thoughts until the end of the song.

[00:07:14]I resolve to call her up a thousand times a day and ask her if she'll marry me some fashion away my sour.

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[00:08:41]Yeah.

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[00:09:23]Oh, since we first met a big enough umbrella, but it's always needed.

[00:10:02]Wow. About the two different approaches that I talked about like the music and the voice was really different. Uh it's not just about the music. Musically, the the voice that the instruments were making was more bigger and rounder and even like uh more lower at least the or or more base uh uh uh based based off the base uh especially with this baseline that you also said. uh that was really filling the whole uh the whole space. Uh and the the approach for from the uh singing part was more uh like a higher voice and really really different and also uh even the kind of articulation or phrasing were different.

[00:10:56]The the music uh the the background music felt more faster and more upbeat.

[00:11:04]And uh also the phrasing were a little like smaller or at least like the articulation was more uh fragmented and like the pieces were shorter. And um the I I also like the the phrasing of the music because it was like I think every two phrases would have been a sentence because they were it was like a I don't know like a phrase and it wasn't over until the next phrase came and then it was like a pause or like a like a cadence that was finished. I mean not all the time but it was most of the time like that but in general it was like more shorter parts and more upbeat but uh the singing part was more long and more longer notes and more melodic and uh not only musically they had two different approaches but also the meaning was uh so different. I mean the music was really upbeat and more energetic but the lyrics that he was or the thing that he was talking about was uh not not really positive and not really uh happy. more talking about like an in insecurity not not really insecurity but more like this lack of confidence that you cannot just be nonchalant and you you say that uh okay yeah whatever I just try my my thing and maybe it happens maybe not it's like when you when you take your whole energy and like you grab your whole confidence that you have and you want to do something or you want to go and tell something to somebody but then at the last moment you cannot do it because it's such a big deal for you and you have so many like insecurities or like lack of confidence in you or you you are so you so stressed what will will it be happen so this desire to really want to do something but you cannot every time it it doesn't happen and it's this feeling that again Did it happen and why can I can I not do it? You could also hear it from uh from his voice especially that he um chose a little like higher uh register as I said in contrast to the music uh to sing it. It also helped with this like really giving this uh feeling that the the this desire feeling or this wanting feeling and not getting what you want or you're like wanting to do something but uh somehow you cannot do it either you are not courageous enough or you you are you're stressed or you're you don't have the confidence or I don't know there so many things that you cannot uh reach what you want or do what you want. So you could also uh like here and I think uh the balance now that I'm think the balance also would make sense now or the the uh volume that he had because it's like he's somewhere really back there or like far away and he's like really trying to like sing loud or speak loud because the way that he was singing wasn't like really like intimate and like really uh with a low volume. It was like he was singing loud. It was like somebody turned down the volume so that you couldn't hear him loud or he was really far away. And it's also makes sense that he's like, "Hey, I'm here and I'm trying but uh nobody can hear what I'm saying like you you could not approach the thing that you want." So doesn't make sense.

[00:14:52]>> Definitely like the contrast between as we listen more. I also realize that. So it's I mean I I I cannot say it's very unique that contrast of the lyrics being kind of like not the most joyful but the the music being the most joyful but definitely every time we encounter something like that always like amazes me but I think it just kind of works together. One more thing that I was also very captivated by was the harmony because again because of the music video being very like too not too joyful but like joyful kind of like dancing and then not so serious. I think I had like an assumption that the harmony is also going to be very straightforward and simple just like a normal pop song. But the harmonies I think surprised me the most. Aside from all those different like layers with the piano being really piano heavy but then also having guitar, drums, bass and not really having clear layers. That was also very interesting to listen to and very like worthy to mention. But harmony I would say is the element that surprised me the most. That was way more complex that I um assumed it was it would be. And now that I look at the harmony, I think uh if especially if they did this voicing that I'm looking I'm just looking at the lead sheet. Uh but it's very interesting that the bass starts from G and thenum kind of like moves in like stepwise motion going up and then uh doesn't complete. It's all the five notes but the second time it like it goes all the way. So that's the bass but then there's obviously different chords happening on top of it. Not very complicated chords here, but on the second verse, it kind of alternates between A major and then D major and A major, D major. So that's not nothing unexpected until we get to this. So from D major, we get to B flat major. So that's that was the the start of the surprise for me. And then it goes to F major and G major and A major. So, it's like stepwise motion with the harmony. And then I think they repeated that surprise a lot. And then it would just never cease to amaze me every time I would get there because every time I was not expecting that happening and then it goes kind of like in a minor mood in the bridge part and then goes back to the in the chorus. It's just all mostly major chords that we hear. So, uh, it's not the most complicated song that we listen to harmony wise, but it definitely was, uh, kind of like, I don't know, interesting to to observe and really appreciate. I appreciate that kind of a little bit of a complexity sometimes here and there because I think it just adds even though you there's other ways than harmony to really like be creative with the song, but the charm that harmony has to me like having kind of like unexpected chords here and there or like surprising the listener always like just it has a special special place in my heart. So yeah, that was the most interesting and very like surprising at least to me uh first experience with the police and we thoroughly enjoyed it. So we want to thank you Diane for your support and for your song suggestion and we want to thank you guys for following us today. We hope you enjoyed this as well. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. And if you want to support us more, there's a buy me coffee link in the description. We'll see you guys in our next video. Bye bye.