I can’t really decide whether or not I like or dislike this song. Released earlier this summer, I Need Your Love is the seventh single off Calvin Harris record and it’s been a pretty big hit this summer. Yet I can’t decide whether I actually like this song. I think it has to do with the lyrics and the delivery.
For some reason, when Ellie sings the chorus
I need your love
I need your time
When everything’s wrong
You make it right
I feel so high
I come alive
I need to be free with you tonight
I need your love
I feel like she is singing it in a tone or manner that feels instructional. It reminds me of ESL or when you are learning French or something and the teacher delivers a sentence in that tone in which you have to repeat it. Sadly, me and everyone else who has listened to this song has now memorized these lyrics and in my mind, any song we can sing out, we will end up liking, whether you like it or not. So I feel like somehow I have been tricked into liking this song because I know the lyrics, and I only know the lyrics because this song sounds like an instructional or tutorial lesson on the actual lyrics. Does that even make sense?
I guess that’s probably how all pop songs work, but for some reason, I feel duped on this one. Having said that, I’d probably still dance to it so maybe I’m also a hypocrite.
