Back in Your Head

• Back in Your Head, Tegan and Sara, 2007
• Instrumentation: piano, vocals, percussion, guitar, bass.
• Form: strophic, comes back to the chorus "I just want back in you head." This song is easy to sing along to, the words are clear, it does not explore a challenging range, and it is a very straightforward beat.
• Origin: this is a contemporary song.
• Lyrics: the sisters are singing of a romance, to which they are clearly afraid to commit to: "Built a wall... between us in our bed... I'm not unfaithful but I'll stray."
• Melody: there are two riffs that stick in my mind after hearing this song: "I just want back in your head" and "I'm not unfaithful but I'll stray."
• Texture: this song is neither thick nor thin.
• Range: there is not a great range explored in this piece, it pretty much remains consistently neither high nor low throughout in both the vocals and the instruments.
• Tempo: the tempo remains consistent throughout and I would describe it as quick.
• Meter: this is a duple beat. It is very pronounced throughout the song by the percussion and the guitar, as well as the choppy manner the girls have of singing with the beat.
• Volume: The volume is fairly consistent throughout and is neither very high nor very low.
• Personal: I personally do not love Tegan and Sara. I don't strongly dislike them, but I would not choose to listen to them in my free time. I cannot hear them without thinking of the show Grey's Anatomy, which I believe has used a number of their songs on their soundtracks. I used to watch this show, but grew to dislike it, so the connotation is poor, which I do realize is not Tegan nor Sara's fault, but nonetheless, it's there. I would also say that they sound like "shouters" to me, which is not a style that I always appreciate.