Monday, June 7, 2021

"No Better No Worse"

I noticed a couple small features in "No Better No Worse."

In the line "Need I tell ya, they'll say you've broken ev'ry law," "law" is sung with a melisma (although the two pitches are the same:  Db).  Musically, then, there's a sense of being "broken."

In the chorus, the repeated "any man" is sung by a few different voices, and its syllables are all sung to different pitches (C B G).  Both of these features give a sense of the breadth of possibility of "any."