Everyone’s working together to highlight and bolster one element. To reflect this, every single element of the song other than Anne-Marie takes a supportive role to her vocals, from Sean Paul making singular utterances which highlight the important parts of Anne-Marie’s story to music which largely keeps itself out of the way unless needed. The entire track is about the hard work but ultimate self-sufficiency of Anne-Marie’s single mother character, providing a surprisingly deep portrait of how single mothers need more support but are still strong on their own. The thing that makes it work is that there’s an in-song reason for one performer to overpower the rest. You’d think that Rockabye, the song they did with Anne-Marie and Sean Paul, would end up criminally overloaded given that it features not one but two guest artists, yet it’s actually quite controlled. Too far to either end of the spectrum and you get stuff that doesn’t work: there’s a specific vocal style that serves Clean Bandit well, but it’s so percise that no-one quite seems to know what it is yet. Similarly, place it next to a wholly uncomplicated artist like Jess Glynne and you get music which is entirely unsupported by its lyrics, resulting in something unsatifyingly meaningless. Place one of Bandit’s precise, complicated instrumentals next to an over-singer like Louisa Johnson and you get a track with no room to breathe, forcing their less ostentatious sound into the background and allowing the song to be dominated by it’s worst element. The issue is that they keep collaborating with their contemporaries despite them never quite seeming to gel. They’re certainly the best instrumentalists working in mainstream pop at the moment their songs sound sublime and are musically so far ahead of their contemporaries that it’s almost embarrassing. I’ve historically been a bit conflicted with Clean Bandit. Let’s pretend this song is still immediately relevant to the charts, yeah?
" Symphony" can be found on Zara Larsson's newly released debut international album "So Good".I’m way behind on my attempt to review every UK No. Jennifer Hudson and will.i.am in particular were LIVING for this song/performance. PS: Those standing ovations from the coaches were so well deserved.
We thought at times Zara was going to struggle with some notes but not. And we only realized with this very performance this past weekend how of a difficult song "Symphony" is to sing live. Now let's focus on the important: Zara's vocals. Make up and hair also looked very flawless on her in this performance. Clean Bandit played the same instruments in the same places, there was an orchestra, there was this girl in the middle playing the cello, and Zara reused the same stunning platinum dress (is it?) from the music video. The production duo and Zara Larsson opted to kind of simulate the official music video for "Symphony" for their performance on the UK version of " The Voice". Clean Bandit are British so no surprise here that they would prefer to kick start the promotion of this single in their home country. Zara Larsson and Clean Bandit delivered the first ever live performance of their debut collaboration " Symphony" over the weekend on ITV 1's "The Voice UK".
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