Monthly Archives: January 2012

Song Crush: Safe and Sound

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I promise this has nothing to do with the fact that it’s from The Hunger Games soundtrack. (Although that doesn’t hurt either)

There’s just something so beautifully haunting about The Civil Wars when they do songs like this. Granted, I am a new fan, but I have obsessively listened to Barton Hollow over the past few days so I could probably make a respectably informed assessment of my own. Their harmony is so perfect, I got chills the first time I got to really hear it for what it is. My newfound love for them shall be for another blog post though.

On to the song. Taylor Swift’s presence kinda threw me off for a bit but I gave the song a chance. Upon hearing the song, I have to admit that she sounds nice enough in this. Maybe folk is the way for her to go, and not the country pop crap she’s currently making.

The melody of this song is such a homerun. I really think the melody itself may just be what safe and sound actually sounds like when you feel like you’re held up in a corner. It’s something you’d wanna listen to when you need to feel that way. Another thing I love about this song is that it’s not over-produced. It’s beautiful in its simplicity. A guitar, a healthy sprinkling of percussion, and then some, are all this song needed to make it work since the harmonies are in itself already giving the ears so much.

The real merit of the song though, is in its words. If Taylor Swift had a hand in writing this, which I’m positive she does, then I have no idea why she’s wasting her talent and her time writing like she was a painfully naive twelve year old who has no idea what really happened in the story of Romeo and Juliet. This is the kind of music she should’ve been writing all along. As for The Civil Wars… I can only sigh at their utter musical flawlessness.

That said, I shall let the song speak for itself.

Darling, everything’s on fire.