Taylor Swift's Opalite - break down
Episode description
Track32 on "The Life of a Showgirl" - Opalite
I'm back with Forensic Musicologist Dr. Joe Bennett
In this episode we look at:
- The chord progression
- Chord tensions
- Harmonic rhythm
- Borrowed chord
- Rhetorical device
- Production
- Direct modulation
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