Finally have a chance to listen to this one. I've been wanting to because of all the glowing comments, and I have to say I pretty much agree with them all. I like the instrumentation choices and the production is awesome. The melody and words are good, as is the performance.
If you've read many of my reviews, you may have picked up on the idea that I'm picky about prosody (that might make a good song title..."Picky about Prosody"...hmmm). Anyway. There were a couple times when the strong syllables of words did not match the strong beats of the music. To me, those felt awkward.
My take on this is: sometimes it works to do something like that to achieve a particular feel in the song. In these cases, that's great. On the other hand, I believe, if it's done just because the songwriter is determined to use a certain phrase no matter what, and it won't fit any other way, then it isn't such a good idea.
In this song there were only a couple of them and maybe you did put them in to achieve your purpose, in which case, just ignore me. In fact, if this detail isn't important to you, ignore me anyway. Write me off as a picky old lady; I don't mind.
Overall, it's an awesome song and I love listening to it!
Vicki
