Jun 21, 2025
CALM: orchestral version
(yes, this is the one I gave (!!) to calum)
honestly I'm (mostly) happy with all except movement 3 which I'd like to work on a bit more before it's played live!
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CALM: orchestral version
(yes, this is the one I gave (!!) to calum)
honestly I'm (mostly) happy with all except movement 3 which I'd like to work on a bit more before it's played live!
that moment when you see a piece on childhood neglect and likely underlying neurodivergence and you’re like ‘oh this reminds me of a song that makes a really good commentary on society’ and then realise that song is not in the same way
ignoring art block for my friends birthday :)
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i cant stop laughing 😭
u know how some songs will just immediately bring your mood up? .....not in the same way just started playing and i smiled without even meaning to
thinking about how all of life's colours seemed to fade to grey in sgfg and how they came back in bits but back to colourblind (twice) in calm and then in 5sos5 the very first song we get. colours take their hold. darkness turns to gold inside
not in the same way and the girl who cried wolf: two sides of a sapphic relationship with too many abandonment traumas and not enough therapy
the thing that gets me about not in the same way is that the bridge is meant to be in the partner's point of view but it doesn't sound like it. it just sounds like more luke, one person's story and frustration in their relationship. and in some ways it makes sense because he's kinda telling the whole story of the concept album but for him to also sing the partner's point of view? that doesn't make sense to me. he's no the only singer on this album--why not swap out the bridge for someone else just to yk. tell it like it's actually the partner's perspective.
but who? calum sings wildflower, they could've had him sing it and it sound like wildflower is that perspective too (which doesn't really make sense imo). but thinking back to 2019 when this was recorded, the nitsw bridge does have some really high notes and a lot of vocal gymnastics clearly designed to show off luke's voice. and i'm not sure calum then would be confident with that. i don't really think michael would be either; it's not really his style. ashton would be though. it would make for a different sound for sure but he also enunciates better and his voice sounds more distinctly different to luke's than calum does, and i could see that working.
but part of me really wants to hear it done by sierra. i can see how that early in the relationship they weren't ready to feature her like they did in older. but when you think about her vocals, this is exactly her style and having a contrasting voice you don't hear in the harmonies anywhere else in the album makes sense as it's the only time we get the other perspective. and then they could harmonise and stuff and go a bit wild with the notes and octaves in the last chorus; imo it does get a bit repetitive and so i can see that really giving it that extra touch to take it from a good song to the kind of banger that you actually focus on and pause the album to take in; perfect for its position in the album after best years and before lover of mine (which ashton has said functions like an interlude).
anyway. it's done and dusted, never say never about a remix i guess but these are just my thoughts. all i can do for now is try and satisfy this idea the best i can in my orchestral arrangement, and look forward to close enough to feel you or promises, whichever is the one sierra is featured on