Music Review: Afrojack & Wrabel "Ten Foot Tall"

Afrojack & Wrabel

Ten Foot Tall

Album: Forget the World

Year: 2014

          Wrabel is grateful for his girlfriend who was willing to believe in him in the trite         “Ten Foot Tall.”

          A stock quiet piano opens the single, setting a  humdrum tone. She thinks that I’m wonderful, he thinks as he is walking to work. She is such a and then he stops to rub his foot. He stubbed it on the bench. She has helped to make him that he is good enough. Together, they can take whatever is thrown at them. He loves her so much. (“I'm clumsy/Yeah my head's a mess, cause you got me/Growing taller everyday/We're giants in a little man's world/My heart is pumping up so big that it could burst.”)

               In the pre-chorus, he wants to smile nonstop and do happy dances at his desk. Because of her, though, he knows he can do whatever he puts into his mind. (“I'm trying so hard not to let it show/But you got me feeling like/I'm stepping on buildings, cars, and boats/I swear I could touch the sky.”)

            In the chorus, he says it’s the best he’s ever felt. (“Oh, I'm ten feet tall/Oh, I'm ten feet tall.”)

           She has confided she fears for that first silence and the relationship eventually breaking down into nothing. She can’t lose him. He tells her he won’t let that happen. (“Be careful, so don't be afraid/Your safe here, no these arms won't let you break/I put up a sign in the clouds/They all know that we ain't ever coming down.”)

          The pre-chorus and chorus are sung again.

         In the bridge, he was once thought no one could love him. He was worthless and was better off staying quiet. However, she kept encouraging him to try. (“You build me up/Make me what I never was/You build me up/From nothing into something/Yeah something from the dust.”)

             The pre-chorus and chorus are sung again.

           Wrabel’s soaring vocals,  brimming with love,  rise above Afrojack’s hammering synths. His synths pound and pound, punching holes into Wrabel’s excellent work. Wrabel is the reason to check the single out and to hear a bright talent.

          The   musty “Ten Foot Tall” should be one of a song that lives on do to excessive sampling (specifically, the pre-chorus).