Fine, for christ's sake. I'll re-iterate. Anthony Hamilton, one of many performers I'd like to start a whole thread on if I had the time, sings a song on his album Ain't Nobody Worryin' called "Change Your World". The album overall is about one half great, one half meh. This song, I respectfully submit, is one of the great ones. Lyrically it's just romantic and sweet. Love turns you upside down, yes. Musically, as I said in the other thread, it starts out fairly simply, not quite standard, but a very solid and listenable, well-fashioned soul tune in the seventies vein. His voice is powerful and rich, and while he certainly has many vocal filigrees and ornamentation, I don't think it's extravagant. He's really quite good at it, with excellent timing and control.
So the song starts out slow, almost like a slow dance song, with solid string orchestration, a strong meandering bass line, and what I suppose is a guitar sound very reminiscent of a sitar, which seems a familiar tool from other soul songs I can't remember. Building up and pulling in a few more elements, the background singing goes from a few women's voices to a chorus of others and layers of AH's voice as backup, the song really changes up at about 3:45, when the song changes key and what I think is a French horn comes in, it changes tempo and adds on more elements to what I think is a goose-bump inducing finale, replete with rhythmic off-beat piano, even more layerd background chorus, whistling, and his freestyling, fluid singing. |
