Musically, the song was anomalous within its moment (it features a xylophone, an octave leap between the verses and the chorus, and a sample of the Brazilian guitarist Luis Bonfá), yet its narrative conceit was instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever emerged on the other side of a bad breakup and thought, What now?
The percussion and the choir sound are added interchangeably between the verses and the bridges, until the second chorus.
Cobain sang progressively "harder" during the recording of the song, which made it difficult for Vig to balance the volume levels between the verses and choruses.
But even when the songs are providing her with flimsy messages, Spears on "Glory" sings with real style and attitude, as in "Make Me…," in which she switches between a breathy murmur in the verse and a euphoric falsetto in the chorus, and "What You Need," a surprising neo-Motown jam in which she comes far closer to Amy Winehouse than anyone would ever have predicted.
The first crescendo serves as a segue between the third verse and the middle part, leading to a bridge known as the "dream sequence", which features Lennon's vocalisations.
Paisley loves songs that cover some distance between the first verse and the last chorus, and one of his best is "Waitin' on a Woman," which is the one with Griffith, who is now eighty-four, in the video.
The earliest evidence may represent the spoken language fairly accurately, but a poetic tradition was soon established, and by the 12th century there was a clear divergence between the archaizing verse and a modernizing prose.
