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inauguration uh lady gaga debuted the00:00:03
mixed meter version00:00:04
of this star-spangled banner why was she00:00:07
using a mixed meter arrangement you normally00:00:10
associate00:00:11
mixed meters with like math rock not00:00:14
like presidential inaugurations which00:00:16
was supposed to be really stately00:00:17
why did she use a combination of four00:00:20
four and three for00:00:21
well i transcribed the arrangement and i00:00:22
think there's some really interesting00:00:24
things that she and her music director00:00:25
did00:00:26
to kind of nod to whitney houston's00:00:28
version and john clayton's arrangement00:00:29
that they used in the 1994 super bowl00:00:32
but also created this00:00:33
this kind of new approach to the00:00:35
national anthem that i think is kind of00:00:37
sorely needed00:00:38
so let's check it out00:00:47
[Music]00:00:50
so we start out here in 4-4 and there's00:00:52
a long history of the song being00:00:53
rendered in 4-4 versus 3-400:00:55
john philip sousa actually did an00:00:57
arrangement of the star-spangled banner00:00:59
back in 1918 in 4-400:01:01
[Music]00:01:04
and you know marvin gaye jennifer hudson00:01:07
whitney houston they all did it in 4-400:01:09
because it's a great way of taking the00:01:10
star-spangled banner and00:01:12
appropriating it in popular styles but00:01:14
here we got like a more00:01:15
formal martial start to it with the the00:01:18
percussion and the wind ensemble playing in the key00:01:20
of g flat00:01:21
so we start with a g flat major triad00:01:25
we go up to the v chord over its third00:01:27
the d flat over f and then we have a00:01:29
nice00:01:30
e flat minor all triads all very simple00:01:33
very stately very00:01:34
strong none of that jazz nonsense00:01:42
great stuff this is simple but really00:01:44
effective we go to the sixth chord in00:01:46
the key of d flat e flat minor00:01:48
then to the five of five the a flat00:01:50
chord which time size is d flat we got00:01:52
the00:01:53
sus4 resolving that 4-3 suspension00:01:56
beautiful all very straightforward so00:01:57
far but check out what happens next00:01:59
[Music]00:02:06
on the page that looks simple but in00:02:07
context it sounds00:02:09
kind of strange almost kind of jarring00:02:11
in fact and the reason for that is00:02:12
because she is singing a syncopation00:02:14
she's anticipating00:02:15
that second note that rhythm of three00:02:17
eighth notes plus three eighth notes00:02:19
plus two eighth notes is called the00:02:20
traceo rhythm00:02:21
it's very common in many kinds of dance00:02:23
styles around the world but in this00:02:24
particular context00:02:26
it sticks out a little bit and it's so00:02:28
subtle and it's so simple but00:02:30
it's so effective it really kind of00:02:32
draws your attention in it makes you00:02:34
think like wait what was that there's00:02:36
also this really nice moment where she's00:02:38
singing the word hailed on the note f00:02:40
and the d flat seven sus4 and the00:02:42
harmony kind of almost contradicts it00:02:45
that dissonance between the g flat the00:02:47
sus4 of the d flat seven sus400:02:49
but it's so subtle and so soft in the00:02:50
orchestration that your ear doesn't00:02:52
really notice it00:02:53
it's kind of more of a like this color00:02:58
it's nice very subtle00:03:05
[Music]00:03:11
so what we have here at the beginning of00:03:13
the i guess the second line is a00:03:14
re-harmonization we have slightly00:03:16
different chords but the melody is the00:03:18
same we start on the six the relative minor00:03:21
in the key of d-flat00:03:22
followed by g flat over d-flat the one00:03:24
chord over its fifth00:03:26
and then followed by this really nice00:03:27
chord a g-flat over00:03:29
c-flat and i love the sound of this00:03:32
chord this is the first00:03:33
like jazz chord that we have so far it's00:03:37
a chord which00:03:39
um there's so much power to it i'm00:03:41
pretty sure that this chord00:03:42
the tonic triad over the four in the key00:03:45
which kind of sounds like00:03:46
a c flat major 7 without its third it's00:03:50
very nice is a nod to john clayton's arrangement00:03:52
of whitney houston singing the00:03:54
star-spangled banner00:04:00
[Music]00:04:04
god so good oh my god these00:04:08
these chords are just unbelievable i00:04:10
know charles cornell00:04:11
has already made a video gushing over00:04:13
the whitney houston arrangement but it00:04:15
it's just it's the best00:04:18
[Music]00:04:20
anyway lady gaga lady gaga's is also00:04:22
good let's keep listening00:04:29
[Music]00:04:36
so so far and with the exception of that00:04:38
tracio that happened earlier00:04:40
lady gaga is singing this very00:04:41
straightforward she is not00:04:43
including any of that melismatic singing00:04:45
yet that is typically representative of00:04:48
star-spangled banner arrangements done00:04:50
in contemporary styles in 4-4 in this00:04:53
case we have lots of the basic triads00:04:55
but also a lot of great voice leading00:04:57
between chords with inversions so00:04:59
we have this g flat over b flat going to00:05:01
a c00:05:02
flat diminished chord which resolves00:05:05
very very nicely to a g00:05:06
flat or d flat the one chord over its00:05:08
fifth which then goes very nicely to a b00:05:11
flat over d00:05:12
which is such a beautiful progression00:05:18
which would presumably resolve the e00:05:19
flat minor it's i guess what you might00:05:22
call churchy i don't know i just get a church00:05:24
vibe to it a gospel vibe to it00:05:26
it's it's nice anyway the real cool00:05:29
stuff has yet to happen00:05:30
uh let's keep listening00:05:44
all right wow it sounds like she's00:05:45
singing the word glare for a very very00:05:47
long time00:05:48
and the reason for that is because she00:05:49
starts singing as if it's in 3 4. even00:05:51
though the rest of the band is in 4 400:05:53
she starts arriving on the note glare00:05:55
one beat earlier than where she has been00:05:58
finishing her phrases00:05:59
glare appears on beat four and to me it00:06:00
has that same kind of off-kilter feeling00:06:02
that the tracio rhythm had00:06:04
earlier on in the arrangement it's very00:06:06
intentional the rest of the band has00:06:08
this00:06:09
harmonization and this harmonic rhythm00:06:11
which supports the arrival of glare on00:06:13
beat four we got00:06:14
g flat a flat minor b flat minor seven00:06:17
flat five00:06:18
e flat seven flat nine sharp excuse me00:06:21
e flat seven00:06:25
e e flat seven sus four flat nine00:06:29
resolving to e flat seven which sets up00:06:32
the beginning of the next phrase where00:06:33
she's going to do that same metric00:06:35
trick again00:06:44
[Music]00:06:47
so yeah she's setting up 3-4 before we00:06:49
actually arrive to 3-400:06:50
it's just that there's these very long00:06:52
gaps in the phrase that you00:06:54
really feel there's almost i want to say00:06:57
an awkward energy about it but i think00:06:59
it's very intentional to get you to that00:07:01
place which just00:07:02
wants you to arrive at the beginning of00:07:04
the next phrase00:07:05
like for example in the harmony we're in00:07:07
this like00:07:10
c-flat minor territory for quite a long00:07:12
time00:07:13
and by the way yes that is a c flat00:07:15
minor over e double flat00:07:18
music is weird sometimes anyway let's00:07:20
keep listening00:07:22
[Music]00:07:29
so now we get to the meat of the matter00:07:31
when lady gaga00:07:32
gestures to the flags of00:07:36
the 400 000 americans that have been00:07:39
killed because of the novel coronavirus00:07:41
it happens on the phrase the flag was00:07:44
still there00:07:45
we're in 3 4 now she is phrasing it in00:07:48
groups of two00:07:50
so the groupings are over the bar line00:07:52
there's still this feeling of like00:07:54
being unmore this feeling of wanting to00:07:57
get to the next00:07:58
place because the meter has been played00:08:00
with has been toyed with so much00:08:03
up until this point and yeah to me it's00:08:06
kind of an affecting moment for some00:08:08
people these dramatic pauses00:08:10
that go against perception of meter00:08:12
might feel awkward or cringe00:08:14
and i understand that but i think it's00:08:16
because lady gaga is affecting more of00:08:18
a broadway aesthetic than a pop00:08:22
r b aesthetic that we typically expect00:08:24
with00:08:25
soloist performers of the star-spangled00:08:27
banner at major events00:08:29
if you try and remove this arrangement00:08:31
from its cultural00:08:32
baggage of whitney houston because00:08:34
honestly whitney houston's saying it the00:08:35
best00:08:36
that anybody's ever going to sing it in00:08:38
that style it's like not even a question00:08:40
you can never sing it as good as whitney00:08:42
houston00:08:44
[Music]00:08:50
oh my god if you try and start thinking00:08:51
of it more as like the storytelling kind00:08:54
of song that you would hear in00:08:55
les mis for example or anything out of00:08:58
american musical theater you start00:09:00
hearing it in a little bit of a00:09:01
different light that's i think what00:09:03
lady gaga and her arranger are doing00:09:06
here00:09:07
this is like the big number at the end00:09:08
of act one i dreamed a dream00:09:10
like i could imagine more and more00:09:12
counterpoint getting added to this the00:09:14
way that she's singing and the way that00:09:15
she's interpreting it00:09:16
and i think that i don't know i like it00:09:19
it works for me anyway this by the way00:09:21
is very different from how lady gaga00:09:23
sang it at the 2016 super bowl where00:09:25
she's singing at 1 300:09:26
4 but also with a lot more of the pop00:09:28
styling and the melismatic00:09:30
kind of singing by turning it into a00:09:31
musical theater song00:09:33
a song of contemporary opera let's be00:09:36
honest she's meeting the gravity of the00:09:38
situation00:09:39
and i think it works anyway let's keep00:09:42
listening00:09:45
[Music]00:09:47
it wouldn't be the american national00:09:49
anthem without just you know a little00:09:50
bit of riffing00:09:51
we'll give her that it's been very regal00:09:52
it's been very reserved so far so00:09:54
she's earned that little bit i think00:10:04
all right so now we're really into 3 400:10:06
territory we're picking up the phrasing00:10:08
the mixed meter now has the effect of00:10:10
making everything feel a lot faster than00:10:12
it was before even though the tempo has00:10:14
stayed exactly the same00:10:15
there's like a lot more forward momentum00:10:16
here it's telling a story the harmony00:10:18
and the orchestration support this00:10:20
forward momentum by having a new chord00:10:22
on every beat00:10:23
like we got oh say does that star00:10:27
[Music]00:10:30
spangled00:10:32
there's just like a lot of harmony00:10:33
coming at you too so we started in 4-400:10:36
we transitioned to 3-4 and now the00:10:38
meters are gonna get a little bit more00:10:41
[Music]00:10:44
loose00:10:50
okay there's a couple interesting things00:10:51
here first she doesn't sing the high00:10:53
note on the word free she doesn't00:10:55
go up to the higher octave which is what00:10:58
so many singers typically do00:11:00
she did it in the 2016 super bowl00:11:04
but she didn't do it here and i think it00:11:06
was very intentional00:11:08
also very interesting on the word land00:11:10
it sounds like she runs out of breath00:11:13
she breaks up the word land into land00:11:15
and but the orchestration also00:11:18
pauses at the exact moment where it00:11:19
sounds like she runs out of breath so00:11:21
that was definitely an intentional call there00:11:29
a strange choice but too much of a00:11:31
choice for it to be an accident anyway00:11:33
let's keep listening00:11:40
so this is interesting she's singing it00:11:43
as if it's in three four it almost00:11:45
sounds like she's rushing00:11:46
of the but the rest of the band is00:11:48
playing it in four00:11:49
four and i'm not sure if this is a00:11:51
choice or not but she is singing and00:11:53
arriving00:11:54
on the note the a full beat before the00:11:56
rest of the band does00:11:57
listen to it00:12:09
[Music]00:12:12
and then of course we end on a classic00:12:14
four minor resolving to one although00:12:16
it's over the root in the bass00:12:17
[Music]00:12:20
such a nice sound it's a little bit00:12:21
different than the john clayton00:12:24
what i would call the mario cadence that00:12:26
ends whitney houston's arrangement of00:12:28
the star-spangled banner00:12:29
but it has a similar kind of vibe00:12:31
because the four minor six chord has the00:12:34
flat six the flat sixth scale degree of the00:12:36
key which just has a really nice00:12:39
resolution down to the fifth scale00:12:40
degree which is part of the one chord00:12:43
similar a little bit different of course00:12:45
at the very end she throws in just a00:12:46
little bit of that riff but00:12:47
to me it sounds like it's classic00:12:49
american broadway at least how she's00:12:51
approaching00:12:52
singing this arrangement you know i00:12:54
think it's super interesting how00:12:56
lady gaga approached using mixed meters00:12:59
alongside her musical director michael00:13:01
bearden she really told a story we started in00:13:04
4-4 with this00:13:05
very strong stately regal arrangement00:13:07
and then with these very subtle twists00:13:09
even still within 4 400:13:11
we got this off kilter feeling we got00:13:13
this uneasy feeling we got this kind of00:13:15
awkward feeling00:13:16
but also exciting feeling that told us00:13:18
that we were going to some place new00:13:20
we didn't know exactly where but it kept00:13:22
us on the edge of our seats00:13:23
you know this was very well thought out00:13:25
by everybody involved the meters00:13:27
served to tell a story and tell a new00:13:30
story00:13:31
and i think that's important for us when00:13:34
we're listening to the united states00:13:35
national anthem we've been hearing the00:13:37
same00:13:38
story over and over again and i think00:13:40
what's so interesting about the00:13:41
star-spangled banner00:13:42
is that for americans we need to hear00:13:44
our story spoken00:13:46
by an individual who at big events00:13:49
like the inauguration or the super bowl00:13:51
serves as kind of an00:13:52
avatar for everything that we might be00:13:55
feeling00:13:56
and there's this like lightning rod that00:13:59
surrounds the individual as they are00:14:01
singing it00:14:02
[Music]00:14:06
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arrangement00:14:09
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