Originally Posted by
benross
"You're not the first person that has stated they find Together to be a dud. I actually sort of like it! lolol i seem to be in the minority on that one. Is it at the level of It's My Turn or To Love Again - definitely not. but it's peppy and a fun song and a nice change from the mega ballads Masser did with her..."
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sup-fan, while Together sounds peppy to you, to me it sounds like an unimaginative, bad rewrite of Baby Love, with a bit of Love Child rolled in.
In both Together and Baby Love, the first few lines of each verse are structured in the same short, staccato format, and while the number of syllables in the words vary, the melody is much the same.
The last lines of each Together verse are roughly reminiscent of the descending parts of the "oooh" chorus following the "tenement slum" opening scene-setting declarative noun, before the lyrics begin to unfold, in Love Child.
Together's intertwined melodies aren't precise copies, of course. Rather, they come across as late-at-night hummings [[or piano poundings) of songs the composer hasn't heard recently, songs that were earlier hits for the vocalist for whom he is trying to come up with something suitable, repeating phrases in a lazy way, fitting parts of them "together" -- and coming up, inadvertently, with a title for the mess/mosh/mesh.
The end result is not so much "inspired by" the earlier songs but is a too familiar recreation of parts of them. The lyrics, too, sound like tired retreads.
And Diana seems to have recognized that it had all been done before. Her voice is, technically, perfect from note to note, but her delivery is perfunctory, lacking the sincerity she brought to Baby Love and the anger and hope she brought to Love Child. There's no sense of immediacy or commitment by her, perhaps because she knows there was no commitment by the writer, who took a "little bit of this, little bit of that" approach hoping 4+4 would equal 10, but ended up with a 3 overall.
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