Tuesday, October 25, 2016

"I Want Her She Wants Me"

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I have a bunch of things I need to get around to writing.  Here's something about "I Want Her She Wants Me" that I realized back in April:

The bass part at the end of the song just repeats the same figure (G D E G' E D G), and in some ways, this figure represents the mutual wanting in the title and lyrics.  There are two G notes in the figure, and they're an octave apart.  The phrase involves moving from one G up to the second and then back down to the first.  So the ascent represents "I want her," and the descent is the reciprocal "She wants me."