Something Snarky

I chose the song "Something," by Snarky Puppy, featuring Lalah Hathaway off the album Family Dinner Volume 1. Snarky Puppy is usually only instrumental (check out "Skate U," if you're interested in having you socks blown off) but they created the Family Dinner album in order to collaborate with some great singers, like Lalah Hathaway and Magda Giannikou. The track was nominated and awarded a Grammy for best R&B performance in 2014. Lalah is singing about her unrequited love. She personifies her heart by saying "And there is not one question/ where my heart will run to," which shows that whoever she is singing about is the only person for her. The audience of her song is one person, this person that she loves. It appears that they know each other, but their love has gone unnoticed. She uses a metaphor between her relationship with the person she's in love with and a song to show how right she feels when she's with him/her. This is evident when she says "there's not a note that rings untrue/ said while I'm with you." While her words are powerful, the majority of her feelings are conveyed through her lyric-less singing. She is a talented singer, and during her solo she sings two pitches and harmonizes with herself. Check out the video!