Q: “What are your favorite parts of each song from UJ?”
1) Young Girls
- “All these roads steer me wrong” - The drop onto the word “roads”; the way that there’s only vocals; Phil’s “ahhh”s in the backing
- The ‘hiccup’
- End “you-ouu-ouuu”s - the switch to falsetto
2) Locked Out Of Heaven
- “Your sex takes me to paradise” - the way Bruno sings on his backing vocal
- The focus on the voice, where most of the instruments drop out.
- When the drum beat kicks back in.
3) Gorilla
- All the vocal slides
- The part beginning “If the neighbours call the cops…” - it just sounds like he does it in one continuous breath; the way he sings “door” (like it’s tumbling down)
4) Treasure
- FUNKY BASS throughout the whole song
- The breakdown section
5) Moonshine
- The crescendos (just before he starts singing and on “oooohhhhh let’s go”)
- Entire first verse: “UH”, the way he pronounces each word; emphasis on “kiss”, “sex”, “incredible”; the raspiness when he says “and the moment”
6) When I Was Your Man
- “Mmmm, too young too dumb to realise” - fast spin and crescendo on ”mmm”
- The last verse - the way everything cuts out just before; the sincerity in his voice.
- The riffing on “give you all his hours”
7) Natalie
- “Imma ooohh” and the tiny ‘uh’ hiccup sound
- The echoes ”yeah, that’s what I’d do” and “yeah, thinking bout you”
- “I’m a fool” and the riffing on “game”
- The ending “for this gold digging bitch”
8) Show Me
- “You say you’re a woman who knows what she likes” - his accent
- “Ready for that uh uh uh”
- Harmony on the last “show me you got to…”
9) Money Make Her Smile
- THE DIRTY BASSLINE
- “Watch her” + the dance break
10) If I Knew
- “Now baby” - the vocal riffing that goes up on the last “now”
- Ending falsetto, especially on “all the things…”