Montreal musician Clare Siobhan recently dropped a track called 3/2 (Loves Me)
A nice indie folk pop tune.
About the track by Clare:
My song “3/2 (Loves Me)” isn’t just about a musical time signature.
I was feeling really shifted and unbalanced by a new love, in a way that was thrilling and comfortable and scary and easy all at once.
I was so different from this new potential lover, but we were becoming so close so quickly, and we found we complemented each other in all these beautiful ways.
I was nervous about falling so hard and so fast, and worried about what would happen if I let myself be vulnerable, but at every step of the way, things were working out. It was this huge risk that I was jumping into, but I was finding that I always had a soft place to land.
If you’re a music theory nerd like me, listen to the piano part. I layer a 3-beat left-hand part with a syncopated 2-beat right-hand part on top, and throughout the full-band arrangement of the song, if you listen closely, you can hear both pulses moving throughout the piece. It’s a bit of a sonic “optical illusion” – if you think in 3, you’ll hear it in 3, and if you think in 2, you’ll hear it in 2.
“3/2 (Loves Me)” is the constant thrumming question of new love: What if I don’t measure up to who they think I am? What if they get to know me and don’t like me anymore? And what if it doesn’t work out?
“3/2 (Loves Me)” holds all these questions within it, and answers them with another question: what if it does?
3/2 (Loves Me) gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Clare Siobhan – 3/2 (Loves Me) [Listen]
