Closing out the week with a 2001 hit from the Irish singer Samantha Mumba, “Always Come Back to Your Love.” Key change at 2:30. Enjoy and have a good weekend!
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S Club 7 | Bring It All Back
More vintage 90s coming at you today with 1999’s “Bring It All Back” by S Club 7. Key change at 2:42. Enjoy!
Christina Aguilera (feat. Demi Lovato) | Fall in Line
“Fall In Line” by Christina Aguilera (featuring Demi Lovato) is the second single from the album Liberation (2018). The New York Times calls the track “a defiant dirge addressed directly to ‘little girls’ … it insists, ‘You do not owe them your body and your soul.’” The key change is at 3:00.
Five | Until the Time Is Through
Five has sold over 20 million records worldwide and has produced 11 top ten singles and four top ten albums in the UK. “Until the Time is Through” (1998) features a unique modulation prep type — silence! Key change at 3:14.
Michael Buble | I Believe in You
Here’s Michael Buble’s 2017 hit “I Believe In You.” The album which is home to the track, Nobody But Me, hit #2 on the Billboard album chart and was also a hit across Europe and much of Asia. The modulation is at 2:49.
Jennifer Hudson | Where You At
Here’s some JHud with “Where You At,” the lead single from her 2011 album I Remember Me. Key change at 2:48.
Jonathan Read Gealt (feat. Natalie Weiss) | Quiet
Here is Jonathan Reid Gealt‘s “Quiet” (2011), sung by the incomparable Natalie Weiss. Key change from E to G at 1:24, and then back to E at 2:00.
Boyzone | When You Say Nothing at All
Another new artist for MotD, and another common tone modulation. Here is Boyzone’s “When You Say Nothing At All” (1999). Key change is at 2:29 is unorthodox in that it goes from G to E. It stays there only briefly though before returning to G to stay to the end.
NSYNC | This I Promise You
Happy Monday! We kick the week off with some classic *NSYNC — “This I Promise You” (2000). I was actually surprised to discover I never posted this song back in the day — it’s a good one. Modulation at 3:11 — Enjoy!
Andrea Bocelli | Because We Believe
Bocelli’s “Because We Belive” has a textbook example of a “common tone” modulation: a single note is sustained through key change, thus transforming its harmonic function. And the second, at 4:20, is the rare downward modulation, moving from E to D. David Foster is at the keys (he co-wrote the song with his daughter Amy for the 2006 Turin Olympics).
