Machine Love

Jamie Paige is an artist who for me, is a great example of the algorithm working perfectly. I had one song pop-up that I really liked and so I favorited it. Then another a bit later... and another.. and a few nothers and so on. Overall I'm a big fan of their sound and general style (including their ventures with FLAVOR FOLEY), so anytime a new track appears there's a good chance I'll be into it. But there's being into it and then there's listening to it pretty constantly for the better part of a week (along with covers and the medley that several other producers put together).

Machine Love very much fell into that category for me, though at first I came close to letting it pass me by. What caught my attention was the final bit of the song. You have the overall build-up reach its peak, but then the louder vocals cut away to another more robotic line (the melody of which and all its other instances is something I adore) which brings it down slightly before taking a brief stop that sounds like a tape changing. It was at this point when fist listening my attention got drawn away from whatever I was doing, just in time to listen to the final lyric- As long as there are stars up above, I will always be in love followed up another abrupt sort of stop, and the end of the song. What can I say other than I think it goes kind of hard.

What I think also makes the final bit really stick out is that it's another repetition of the same little melody that happens between every verse, and with that final lyric is the second time in a row we get it. So throughout the song you get that connecting little bit, which stands out on its own by being again, a much more robotic sound and also the only place Japanese is used instead of English (until the end), which draws more attention. These sections also quote the song that Machine Love was made in tribute to- 耳のあるロボットの唄 / Song of the Eared Robot, which was not a song I was originally familiar with. Machine Love follows the overall melody of Song of the Eared Robot as well, which was a cool thing to see. As a tribute it definitely feels successful to me, and led me to another song to enjoy.