Sunday, May 10, 2020

"Send It"

In the choruses of "Send It," the backing vocals that sing the title phrase are panned hard right and hard left.  This gives the illusion of space, and because the vocals alternate channels, there's a sense of the distance that "the dream" has to travel in being sent.

In reviewing the song, I noticed a few other things.  "Day" in the line "I'm waitin' for it ev'ry day" is sung with a melisma (E D C# E C# B), musically giving a sense of amount (for "ev'ry").  Like I mentioned before (but with the wrong spelling!), the articulation here seems to owe something to Buddy Holly.

The chorus exhibits anaphora:
Send it on the wires
Send it on a plane
Send it on an express
But send it back to me again
"Send it" is repeated at the beginning of each line, but the method of sending changes from line to line.  Together, these illustrate that the speaker/singer is more concerned with his dream being sent back to him than he is with what means it's sent.  Obviously, this is clear in the words themselves, but it's also in the structure.