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Snow Angel (Reneé Rapp)

★★★★⯨
12 Jun, 2024

This is such a good song. It starts of as a nice if not generic and boring ballad, but the second chorus is already kind of interesting with the contrast and a very nicely done high point. However, it just keeps getting better. You go to the bridge directly from the chorus and it does a number of turns that are just right. It's not something magical harmonically, but it just is so well produced. Everything is exactly where it needs to be, the intensity just keeps building and building. There's almost three times where it seems that there is a modulation (or tonization) to the "relative minor", but of course that should only happen once! It honestly reminds me of the invisible "half-modulations" of Jacob where you don't know when it happened. Of course this is not nearly as complex but it still a damn nice effect. The technical justification isn't the point, the point is that it just an amazing example of an artist knowing exactly where and how to put every element in a song.

Snow Angel (Reneé Rapp)