Kiss You Like A Hummingbird

Antony and the Johnsons “I’m In Love”

A lot of people sing about feeling overwhelmed by love, but in this song, Antony really does sound like it, as if he could just pass out at any moment as a result of love overload. A lot of this effect comes from the arrangement, which is light, gently shifting, and doesn’t seem to have any solid center. The song is all free-floating joy without any sense of stability, which is a pretty good metaphor and approximation of intense infatuation. There are some great, unexpected details in this arrangement. I’m particularly fond of that tapping, shuffling percussive sound in the last minute or so — it’s right on the edge of being distracting, but it works for just that reason. It’s like some feeling or sensation that gets in the way of the huge, emotional sweep of the song.

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