Music Review: Spandau Ballet "True"
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Album: True
Year: 1983
Tony Hadley, lead singer of Spandau Ballet connects to Motown music, in the bum ballad "True."
Comfy synthesizers and velvety guitars start the single, creating a candlelit, starry-eyed atmosphere. Hadley comments that the music is always at the perfect pitch and on-key. As he dances slowly with a yougn woman, he feels the notes flow through him.
In the pre-chorus, Hadley says his world travels were spent for naught. He is blocked and cannot find the words to say to express himself. He desperately wants to be heard.
In the gentle chorus, he notes it's all his knows.
He's excited and full of promise. However, the promise scares him to the point he has headache. He's afraid he will choke and write something inferior. He listens to Marvin Gaye for inspiration throughout the night, hoping to think of something as great as "Mercy Mercy Me."
He is not quite able to catch his creativity at the right time. He's either distracted or busy when something occurs to him. He would like someone around to write his thoughts down for him. "Always slipping from my hands/Sets a time of its own/Take your seaside arms and write the next line/
Oh I want the truth to be known."
The chorus is sung once
A torpid saxophone solo occurs out of obligation.
The first pre-chorus is repeated with much more bambast. The chorus is sung again.
Spandau Ballet sing "this much is true, I know, I know, I know this much is true" over a quicker beat to close the single.
"True" coasts on its dreamy chorus. Its main flaw is that the lyrics do not match the music. A valentine to Motown music would be best paid with a homage, not a romantic ballad.
Album: True
Year: 1983
Tony Hadley, lead singer of Spandau Ballet connects to Motown music, in the bum ballad "True."
Comfy synthesizers and velvety guitars start the single, creating a candlelit, starry-eyed atmosphere. Hadley comments that the music is always at the perfect pitch and on-key. As he dances slowly with a yougn woman, he feels the notes flow through him.
"So true, funny how it seems/Always in time, but never in line for dreams/Head over heels when toe to toe/This is the sound of my soul/This is the sound."
In the pre-chorus, Hadley says his world travels were spent for naught. He is blocked and cannot find the words to say to express himself. He desperately wants to be heard.
"I bought a ticket to the world/But now I've come back again/Why do I find it hard to write the next line?/Oh I want the truth to be said."
In the gentle chorus, he notes it's all his knows.
"Huh huh huh hu-uh huh/I know this much is true/Huh huh huh hu-uh huh/I know this much is true."
He's excited and full of promise. However, the promise scares him to the point he has headache. He's afraid he will choke and write something inferior. He listens to Marvin Gaye for inspiration throughout the night, hoping to think of something as great as "Mercy Mercy Me."
"With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue/Dissolve the nerves that have just begun/Listening to Marvin (all night long)/
This is the sound of my soul/This is the sound."
He is not quite able to catch his creativity at the right time. He's either distracted or busy when something occurs to him. He would like someone around to write his thoughts down for him. "Always slipping from my hands/Sets a time of its own/Take your seaside arms and write the next line/
Oh I want the truth to be known."
The chorus is sung once
A torpid saxophone solo occurs out of obligation.
The first pre-chorus is repeated with much more bambast. The chorus is sung again.
Spandau Ballet sing "this much is true, I know, I know, I know this much is true" over a quicker beat to close the single.
"True" coasts on its dreamy chorus. Its main flaw is that the lyrics do not match the music. A valentine to Motown music would be best paid with a homage, not a romantic ballad.