Thursday, May 17, 2018

"California Girls"

Last week, I was thinking about "California Girls," and I realized something about the second verse.  The "girls" in the line "I've been all around this great big world, and I've seen all kind of girls" is sung with a melisma (A G# F#, I think).  Because "girls" is sung to more than one note, there's something of a musical representation of that wide variety.