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Gabby Barrett on Taking a Classic Emotional Approach in ‘Dance Like No One’s Watching’


Gabby Barrett's "Dance Like No One's Watching is featured in this week's Makin' Tracks column.

In successful child-rearing, Mom and Dad essentially make themselves obsolete — after doting on the kids, sinking time and money into them, those children grow up, move away and create lives of their own. They fell into a waltz time — not because the hook involved dancing, Weisband says, but because it felt “big and dramatic.” That’s certainly the tone they gave the chorus first, fitting the title to a languid melody with long notes. Verse two zoomed ahead to Dad helping pack the trunk as the protagonist heads off for college — shades of The Chicks’ “Wide Open Spaces.”

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