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Post by davidhr on Sept 8, 2017 6:21:32 GMT -5
Lara's second single from "Camouflage", entitled 'Choose What You Love Most (Let it Kill You)' is now available. You can use this thread to express your opinion of it. Also, 'Remember Me' from the movie "Cello" is now available too, and you can indicate what you feel about that here as well. Thanks!
David
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Post by jjrparis on Sept 11, 2017 11:19:56 GMT -5
Hello all! Just a quick word to say that I absolutely LOVE Choose What You Love Most. The lyrics. The slow build to the beat. The backing orchestra. The soaring vocals. It's classic Lara, for me, meeting a new sound. I'm completely on board. Between the two released tracks, I feel that we're beginning to get a sense of this 'new sound' that Moh Denebi has created for Camouflage, and I think it's going to be strong. The beats, combined with classic orchestration, remind me a bit of Celine's Loved Me Back to Life, which Sia wrote. I remember at the time thinking that that song was a very effective move, for Celine, insofar as it provided a good vehicle for her voice that, musically, was quite modern and contemporary.
What new approach works when a 90s power-ballad diva, 20 years after the hits, wants to stay fresh, particularly within the Anglophone market? (I think the French market lends itself (for both of them) to their signature sounds more easily.)
A new friend of mine, who will be joining my little entourage to Chicago's concert, is absolutely new to Lara Fabian, and she sincerely likes these tracks, with CWYLM being her favorite of the two. She told me earlier today that she's had it on repeat for 48 hours.
I also like Remember Me. Having a hard time understanding all of the lyrics, though ... has anyone found the lyrics published anywhere?
As it happens, the collaboration with Les Friction, though, is my favorite of all of the new 2017 material. Very happy across the board.
What do the rest of y'all think of this second Camouflage track?
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Post by ocelot on Sept 11, 2017 23:45:51 GMT -5
I like "Choose What You Love Most" as well as "Remember Me". I love the sound of the new tracks, but find the songs a bit short (and in parts repetitive). There are other singles that Lara has released in the past that I was able to listen on repeat, but don't seem to be able to do that with the new tracks. I feel that with a whole album I will be able to do that, but the tracks are a bit short to be able to do that on their own. I find myself very excited about the album because I love the sound that Lara has created with this new team.
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Post by davidhr on Sept 12, 2017 7:38:45 GMT -5
I like both songs. Lara's singing is top notch.
“Choose What You Love Most (Let it Kill You)” : This is certainly a more representative song of Lara’s vocal abilities than the first single (Growing Wings), and for that reason alone, it would appear to be a better advertisement for this album. It does continue the theme of that first release, to follow your dream, although now the cost of failure is acknowledged – it may kill you to do so (hopefully, in a metaphoric sense – a broken heart, or even perhaps a complete cleansing). One is no longer just ‘taking the plunge’ and hoping that one’s inner self will allow us to be successful, one is recognizing that sometimes the risks are extreme if that doesn’t happen.
The orchestral backing is lush, and should satisfy Lara’s fans who want a big ballad, and Lara’s singing is sensational. One reservation is that ‘let it kill you’ is the repeating lyric, and even closes out the song – is that what people should remember, the failure of the effort? The message here is really to encourage people to ‘choose what you love most’, and it would seem to have made more sense to have that be the repetitive and take away theme. The other (slight) reservation is that the ending is rather abrupt. Otherwise, this is a powerful song, and is proof that the album gives Lara the latitude to fly, vocally.
“Remember Me’: A lovely, standard ballad, on the very sad topic of trying to put a positive spin on somebody’s passing away. Wonderfully sung and orchestrated, this could be a really big hit if its origin (closing credits of a short film) doesn’t limit its availability. Given the poignancy of the topic, and Lara’s performance, we will certainly ‘remember’ this song.
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