Place in Society - AlexGB231 ft SOLARIA from Synth V (Identities)
Channel: AlexGB231
Date: 2024-03-16

Here's the second track from my EP, Identities. Following on from the very energetic Captain Kevin, we get a much more bittersweet and nostalgic song in complete contrast to that! Because, you know, Identities is a very cohesive EP™ with totally no drastic changes in mood between songs at all(!)

Anyway, it's a beautiful song! The piano/acoustic guitar combination just sounds so nice to me! Especially in the start of the first verse, it just sounds so much like the opening to some Disney movie or something like that. I don't know, I just feel like this song has those Disney movie vibes to it, perhaps helped by the fact that SOLARIA's singing it.

The song is actually in D Mixolydian, by the way. I've used that scale before to create cheesy and energetic songs, but here, the b7 is used to create a more reflective mood instead. I love the Mixolydian mode, it's one of my personal favourite scales to work with. That said, the chorus does actually incorporate the major V chord, which uses the regular natural 7th of the major scale instead, so there's that too. In fact, that V chord comes right before the bVII chord, which then resolves to the IV chord, containing the natural 6th, so the chorus progression has a nice chromatically descending line from the root to the natural 6th, which sounds nice! The verses also contains the minor iv chord because minor plagal cadences are always nice! Oh, also, enjoy the final chorus with that key change as well, it's pretty awesome!

Lyrically speaking, it follows on from This Big World. It's the same singer, and in effect, the same character as well, and it touches on similar lyrical themes. Again, though, I try to focus more on the characterisation of this character, touching upon her feelings and thoughts a little more rather than give her a specific story as I did in This Big World. Adding onto that, this song is also far more poetic as well, with a pretty clearly defined rhyme scheme and a more hook-based melody. This Big World didn't quite have much of a rhyme scheme in comparison, so there's that in this song!

In any case, I hope you like this one! It's a really beautiful song and I'm pleased with it. I hope you like it too!