We were listening to Now 69 in the car on the way home and it finally dawned on me that The Sugababes do a sneaky* semi-tone truck-driver's gearchange at 2 mins 20 secs into this song, exactly on the word 'change'** in a song called, er, "Change":
* It's sneaky because it's right at the start of the middle-eight, which is supposed to sound a bit different from the rest of the song, but they don't drop back to the original key thereafter (see also "Son of a preacher man") , unlike my previous exhibit which is totally in-your-face.
** Michael Jackson did exactly the same thing in Man in a mirror.
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And how was Legoland?
How retardedly unoriginal. Still nice to look at, aren't they?
Key change probably due to two separate takes being spliced together (or whatever the right word is these days) at that point of the re-rcording of the final version?
TFB, the rain gave way to drizzle at mid-day so it was fantastic - the queues were down to less than five minutes.
I think you are missing the point about (some of) these "gear changes".The one here suggests moving on to something higher and better as it does in the George Jones masterpiece which being about death (its C&W after all )is ,lets face it, about transcendence .In an earlier Nashville and Strings era they would have resorted to a heavenly choir and strings to get a similar effect: on "He stopped loving her today" Jones relies almost entirely on his voice .
Anyway I think the Jones song is wonderful and I won't hear a word against it.
DBC, that's why they are sometimes referred to as 'Christian gear changes', see for example Eternal/Bebe Winans and Wanna Be The Only One., the whole song from about 2 mins 30 secs is on CGC after another.
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