With You Out My Life

Sabrina Carpenter “Feather” (Spotify session version)

The studio recording of “Feather” is good because the songwriting is strong, but the sound is a little too tight and rigid in the way so much modern pop music is – everything quantized to death, too much direct-input sound, no sense of space or texture. This live-in-studio recording of the song for a Spotify session is a major improvement that remedies that airless stiffness. The arrangement is pretty much exactly the same but the disco-ish groove has a better feel to it, there’s enough room sound to give the track some ambiance, and a little more looseness makes Sabrina Carpenter’s conversational tone and pithy punchlines land a lot better. Carpenter is very charming in this song, roasting an ex without getting too mean, placing her focus both lyrically and musically on the relief of being rid of someone rather than stewing on the ways they sucked.

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