I am maybe broke, maybe in love, but it is my choice- We Choose by HER
- Dana Ivanova
- Feb 2, 2018
- 3 min read
Hey! February is here, the most romantic and the coldest month of the year *at least here*. Even though the Valentines Day is arriving only in two weeks all supermarkets are stuffed with hearts and postcards, and plush toys. Also a lot of artists release new music and/or new albums too. The best way to start a new year.
I will be a little bit cliché and will put on some new romantic and touchy music here too *sorry not sorry*. But only because these songs are really great. And the first "Love Month" headliners is a band/duo HER with their new song We Choose. This is new single from the upcoming debut album, which will be released in March.
HER is not a women duo as you may think at first. This band founders are two talented men who have found each other having similar interests and passion to create new music and present it to the world. Band is very known to Europe and the US scene although they originally come from French, but this is the result , the behind story is much bigger. Interesting question though, why two men would name their band HER? The answer is very logical and beautiful, and I think many ladies will agree. Guys have chosen female pronoun, because is symbolizes duality, duality of emotions, of features, etc. love and eroticism, sensitivity and strength, modesty and anger. But of course it is only one of the reasons. The other reason is the music itself, how they try to combine two different and most probably opposite things. As they say themselves their music is like Frank Ocean meets Shuggie Otis, crazy right?
We Choose evoke a bunch of different feelings, first of all relaxation. Calm and measured tempo so you don't have feeling that you need to hurry somewhere or running from someone. Music is not screaming "Pay attention to me!", because the most important are words that are sung. What I like about We Choose is the circular effect of lyrics, how is attracted listeners attention to what "we choose" and " no you". It is like band tried to count things in our lives that we need to be responsible for and what we need to do, and not what others say. Also rhyming system is made very good and since singer has a little accent you can barely hear the difference between words, for example dying and denying.
What gives me chills in this song is how HER managed to split song in 3 musically, harmonically, emotionally different parts. If the first verse and chorus are calm, with minimal amount of background music, we can hear only the organ and vocals and then beat is added in chorus, so it strengthens the meaning of the lyrics. Then seconds verse is split in two voices which harmonizes perfectly plus to the sound of organ are added snaps and a little bit of bass. So the last round of bridge and chorus go BOOM, but still in a very soft way. But as I said previously the main focus is on the voice, because it is a solo instrument which's doing God knows what, but definitely, 100% in a good way.
HER's song We Choose can be named as a great day mantra. Absolutely reminding of the most important things and points out that we are the ones who rule our lives. No one can set and dictate their boundaries except us. The world is wild, the world is free and even if you are broken now keep moving in the direction of you happiness and success. So go, seek for some inspiration in HER's new single We Choose and add it to your playlists, ENJOY!
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