Phoenix - Rally
Taking Back Sunday - MakeDamnSure
Not much links these two songs together besides a certain significant intake of breath. In Rally, this occurs towards the end, when Thomas Mars takes a deep breath right before he delivers the last part of the last chorus in the song. In MakeDamnSure, the very first thing you hear is Adam Lazzara inhaling. Those moments are notable. In Rally, I think that breath is a sign of impatience, somehow, a rhetorical device, as though Mars has delivered this message so many times to the person he's addressing, like, 'c'mon, you know this.' In MakeDamnSure, that breath is a little different, it sits outside the song, a kind of off-stage preparation for what follows. A pause, and expression of doubt.[BUY It's Never Been Like That][BUY Louder Now]