When I listen to a song, I'm listening to three things. The vocals, the lyrics, the music — okay, four things. Cause the fourth thing is the X factor, and that's the way the musicality helps underscore what the whole song is doing. And that can be done with harmonic differences, chord changes, interesting bass note substitutions. This is by Phil Collins, it's called "Against All Odds." And if you listen to the tension in the way that certain notes are held even as chords change on top of them, it's just gorgeous. It feels like the lyrics, and the lyrics sound like the vocalist, and the vocalist is singing exactly like the song should be sung.
