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Sally Shapiro - "Miracle"
My Guilty Pleasure, the followup to Sally Shapiro's Disco Romance, is out in late summer/early fall. First single "Miracle," penned and produced by Johan Agebjörn and Roger Gunnarsson, is out officially via Paper Bag Records on 6/16, but you can hear it first in this week's Drop. We asked Sally about "Miracle"'s synth storm.
What are you saying in the beginning of the song? The spoken part. It brings on the thunder. It's the start of a letter to the lost partner, who is from France. One of those letters where you write "It's not that I want to bring us back together" even though that's what you want...
Why all storm clouds? Is the song based on a personal experience? It's a dramatic song and it sort of strengthened the drama ... We love musicals where the feeling of the songs are amplified by the weather or other things happening around. It's cheesy but good. Maybe it would be nice to do a whole musical some time.
Miracles do happen, so if a relationship that felt like "a miracle" ended, what are the chances of it starting back up again? In this case? We're not told that ... But not a high chance I would guess. It's a song about the nostalgia you can feel over a lost relationship. Maybe it really felt like a miracle when it was going on, at least for you. Or maybe you just remember the relationship as better than it actually was.
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