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Drag Me Around
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Ever Kenievel

Entry from Drag Me Around in Nur Ein XVI.

Song must bridge your Round 0 and Round 1 songs

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Ever Kenievel - Drag Me Around

This song bridges our Round Zero and Round One songs in both story and music. The protagonist of our Semiprecious, Angela, and the subject of our Pareidolia were engaged, but after the breakup, they attempt to maintain a friendship. The subject of Pareidolia slips deeper into paranoia and into his drug habit, worsening until his spiral of bad choices and eventual (self?) immolation in the woods, as alluded to in Pareidolia, whose rain and thunder background noise bring the song to a close.

So you tell me that we cannot be anything anymore
But we can still be friends
Semiprecious to you well I guess it'll do
It still feels like an end

And you drag me around
To all of the bars you like
Drag me around
A dip in the pool
You drag me around
As if nothin had changed at all
Drag me around
Like I'm some kinda fool, yeah

But how could you have known that I didn't outgrow you
Like I made you think
'cuz I never told you just loaded my nose up
'til I couldn't blink
What a pair that we made with the holes in your veins
Like secrets in Morse code
Now you're playin it clean (well, except nicotine)
And I continue to erode
Erode

Drag me around
To all of the bars you like
Drag me around
A dip in the pool
You drag me around
As if nothin had changed at all
Drag me around
Like I'm some kinda fool, yeah

Reviews

2 posted notes

j$

Forum post

I really like the synth lead under the choruses. The rest not so much.

JonPorobil

Forum post

Do you guys watch Adam Neely videos? He did one recently where he was giving feedback to someone who'd submitted a metal piece, and he said "So the moral of the story—and I really, REALLY hate to say this—is... [sigh] I think you could turn the guitar up in the mix." So yeah, here's my "turn the guitars up" moment for you guys: I think you should make the pitch correction more conspicuous. The synth pop vibe here is already so saccharine and the melody so stop-and-start that, for once in my life, I think that "way too much Autotune" sound might actually be what this song needs. Mark your calendars; I've no idea when I'll ever say that again. Moving on... I get that the short-stopping clipped delivery on "Drag me around" was a style choice, but I'm finding it hard to get into. It's possible that it would work better for me if the lead vocal were blended a bit better into the mix. Similar to the advice I gave Brown Word earlier, I think you've got that "karaoke" effect, where the voice is sitting uncomfortably on top of the mix and not blending. I think what it comes down to is, you're mixing your voice in the same way that you typically do for a rock song, and it needs a different treatment here. I also think that adding a vocal delay (or turning it up, if you already have one here, since I can't hear it!) would help fill the space in the vocal melody that I was complaining about earlier.

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