Digging Around Between The Lines

Oceanator “Goodbye, Goodnight”

“Goodbye, Goodnight” opens with a plodding, heavy riff straight out of the grunge era but as the song slides into its chorus it finds a bit more grace. I like the way this form works with the lyrics – Elise Okusami’s verses are flustered in dealing with someone reading too much into her behavior, but when she shifts gears she’s casually dismissing them with the title phrase. You feel the weight lift off her back, and even if the conventions of pop songwriting dictate that she retrace the verse and chorus a second time the backsliding feels natural and the instrumental at the end hits like the proper catharsis.

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