#calledtothedevil

A song I’ve really been into lately would be “It’s Called Freefall” by Rainbow Kitten Surprise. Right from the start, it brings you into the tone of the song with instrumentals and lyrics on the first beat. In a soft, almost mumbled voice, the singer tells us, “Called to the Devil and the Devil did come,” which immediately has us assuming there’s some shady deal about to take place, yet the warm monotonous voice tells us otherwise. “I said to the devil, Devil do you like drums? Do you like cigarettes, dominoes, rum?” The singer twists the classic narrative by trying to converse with the demon he summoned. The Devil himself seems uninterested in worldly escapes and tries just talking with the man, presumably to convince him it might be better in hell. A good use of syntax can be found here as the lyrics are mostly structured around dialogue, with casual language and short sentences. Each stanza repeats the introductory “Called to the Devil...” however by the third verse, the Devil retorts, “Hey! Why you been calling this late? It's like 2 AM and the bars all close at 10 in hell...” marking the progression of relationship between the two. It amusing to me to picture a man that keeps summoning the devil to rant about to his problems, while the demon slowly gets more frustrated and gives more and more exasperated advice.  The chorus is pretty simple by comparison, just repeating the line, “you could let it all go, you could let it all go, It’s called: freefall”, which seems to be a reference to falling into hell, as well as a “falling out” of friendships. Diction is again used throughout the song to create a natural banter between the two characters, shown in the last line of the chorus, “Cause ain't s--- free but falling out, and that s---’s easy let me show you how, it’s like...” which works with the relaxed tone of the song as a whole. Neither figure is trying to be someone they’re not, as both are exhausted, lonely people that have no need for fancy language. All these factors work together in such a way to create a song that I can’t get tired of listening to.