Saturday, October 2, 2021

"All My Love"

In "All My Love," some of the titular phrases are sung with melismas, giving a sense of the entirety of that "all."  In the lead vocals, the "love" at the end of the bridge is sung to the notes G A Bb (and in the coda, it's sung to various other groups of notes), and at the end of each section, "all" in the backing vocals is sung to D notes an octave apart (this breadth also gives a sense of the entirety).  At the beginning of each verse, "all" in the lead vocals is also held for over a measure, and this too gives a sense of the entirety.

Coinciding with the lines "I see it all / The way we fall for one another's make believe" (that's how they're formatted in the liner notes), there's a descending phrase (I think it's a combination of synthesizer and strings:  E Eb D Db A), and this mirrors the "fall" in the lyrics, although it's used more metaphorically.