Saturday, July 18, 2020

"On the Run"

I'm not sure of the specific notes, but "away" in the line "But they just won't go away" in "On the Run" is sung with a melisma, so while it's negated, there's a sense of movement.  The "around"s and "away" in the coda ("Woman, I gotta move around / Woman, I gotta get away / Woman, I gotta move around") also have this, and - as I noted before - those vocal articulations seem to owe something to Buddy Holly.