I mean I dig extended metaphors and I’ll take them any day over the sophomoric muck that passes as lyrics for a majority of artists these days. Again, I don’t know if this song is an official release or a teaser track, but I’m just wondering about the use of another clever extended metaphor so close on the heels of “Only Wanna Give It To You”.
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As Stanley so eloquently stated in Friday for folks to stay off his lawn, can we stay away from certain drum sounds that have become as ubiquitous as the Orchestra Hit? Just a thought.ģ. Sorta like… “Yo, you know what would be hot that no one has done…” *Pages Blu Cantrell’s peeps from his two-way Sky Pager*Ģ. I like where it sits groove wise but concept wise it sounds somewhat gimmicky to me. So a strong suit to this track is that we do get a brief respite from the redundant.ġ. It seems like song form evolved from 12-bar Blues to 32 Bar Standard Song Form and then devolved to a lot of what goes for song form these days a 4-Bar loop(And yes, of course I realize that “Only Wanna Give It To You” is essentially a 4-Bar loop with a slight change but it is a strong 4-Bars).
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I like the contrast of the double-time feel of the fiddle sample against the feel of the vocal and the rest of the rhythm track.ģ.There’s a bridge which I’m always on personal crusade for bridges in songs. No denying that she’s a singer and I really enjoy the edge that she puts on her vocal in places, reminiscent of how a saxophone player can take their sound out and get a buzzy edge when they have command of the instrument.Ģ. Again, that’s all this is: one person’s opinion wrapped in a lot of admiration for an artist who he hears has the potential to be something great for music.ġ. There are things that I really like about the track and there are things that in this one person’s opinion are not the business. Honestly my reaction to “Refill” was pretty indifferent. We’ve been there, we’ve done that and it’s not coming back, but what we can hope for, hell demand, is that good great music counterbalance a lot of the bull that is in the marketplace and I feel that “Only Wanna Give It To You” has really done that. Now granted I had nor have any expectation for Elle Varner or any other artist to be a 90’s re-tread. It may be that my listening was colored by my love for “Only Wanna Give It To You” I mean the song is really a 90’s homage and having really come of age during that decade it hit a soft spot. So suffice to say I was intrigued when I clicked on the clip. I must say though, that I did feel somewhat hip when back in August I was rebuffed by my teenager daughter when I tried to put her on to “Only Wanna Give It To You” only to be ignored and then lo and behold who happens to playing the song about three months later when I walked by the room but I digress… Again, I must confess that I realize that I am probably not the target demo for Elle. Now granted I don’t know if “Refill” is an official single release or if it is just something that Elle’s team is testing the waters of the interwebs with… I know it arrived in the inbox last evening and of course it got the immediate open and push play because of the aforementioned love fest. If you want to check out that particular love fest go here. Wielding a delicate rasp, and powerful delivery, she showed off the voice that's kept her standing through it all.Ok so of course I have to start this post with one small caveat and that is that my love for the sound of Elle Varner has been documented on these very pages. "This past year, I've been through some s-," she said, before launching into a stirring performance of "Little Do You Know," a song from her upcoming record, 4 Letter Word.Īt Le Poisson Rouge, Varner gave us a handful of that album's songs and one from her previous - all fleshed out and Kodachromed by a live band - inviting the room into the depths of what it means to battle through lies, loss and love itself.
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Michelle have kept Varner's name in the headlines. She took the stage with guns blazing, and a couple of songs into her set, she was more than willing to admit that she's been going through it lately a public break-up, a stalled album release and a (freshly resolved) spat with fellow R&B singer K. But three years already feels like an eternity ago, and on her newer material Varner sounds far from satisfied by either a sweet talker or some new kicks.
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R&B singer-songwriter Elle Varner flew out of the gate in 2011 with a feel-good, boom-bap-heavy tune about a man who had managed to snag her attention away from a particularly nice pair of shoes.