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Internet pop matriarch Family Reunion is usually the one dishing out her love nihilism, double checking who is around before anyone truly knows how she feels. But in a slightly new direction with the Tombo-produced, How I Feel, Jackie is yelling her truth from the rooftops and left to slip and fall with no one there to help.
How I Feel is the most congruent Family Reunion song rhythmically and melodically. The production and composition, seemingly concentrated on the chorus, attract one another to become this addictive tune of frustration. Family's droopy and speechless melodies and upset vocal riffs give off this emotional plea while her verse is a fight against becoming jaded. Her prima facie background vocals, sometimes overlaid with the fronting vocals, draw new dimensions to the sides of her desires on the song. She is in the dumps because she can't get what she wants, and the production is content in dragging her lower.
Tombo and Jackie's beat is layered rhythm practically in four phases. HIF begins expressing with dead floating chords shortly accompanied by a patty, flattening kick and bass drum relationship that does the opposite of how it makes you want to move within the contexts of the track. The jolty synth bassline talks under its breath to communicate this spoiled brooding just as much as it, you guessed it, makes you want to dance. And Jackie's scratchy rhythm/counter-melody guitar shots play these moments of edge or down time, like in the bridge where the guitar switches up to mostly funky strums and the chord progression takes a front seat.
How I Feel is Jackie doing what she does best, but somewhat in reverse. And it's time to figure out how you feel about how Family Reunion feels.
Listen to How I Feel below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
Internet pop matriarch Family Reunion is usually the one dishing out her love nihilism, double checking who is around before anyone truly knows how she feels. But in a slightly new direction with the Tombo-produced, How I Feel, Jackie is yelling her truth from the rooftops and left to slip and fall with no one there to help.
How I Feel is the most congruent Family Reunion song rhythmically and melodically. The production and composition, seemingly concentrated on the chorus, attract one another to become this addictive tune of frustration. Family's droopy and speechless melodies and upset vocal riffs give off this emotional plea while her verse is a fight against becoming jaded. Her prima facie background vocals, sometimes overlaid with the fronting vocals, draw new dimensions to the sides of her desires on the song. She is in the dumps because she can't get what she wants, and the production is content in dragging her lower.
Tombo and Jackie's beat is layered rhythm practically in four phases. HIF begins expressing with dead floating chords shortly accompanied by a patty, flattening kick and bass drum relationship that does the opposite of how it makes you want to move within the contexts of the track. The jolty synth bassline talks under its breath to communicate this spoiled brooding just as much as it, you guessed it, makes you want to dance. And Jackie's scratchy rhythm/counter-melody guitar shots play these moments of edge or down time, like in the bridge where the guitar switches up to mostly funky strums and the chord progression takes a front seat.
How I Feel is Jackie doing what she does best, but somewhat in reverse. And it's time to figure out how you feel about how Family Reunion feels.
Listen to How I Feel below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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