Trumpets by _by.alexander, 070 shake
look at the damage we have done…
Key: c sharp minor BPM: 103
Fusion of contemporary Jazz with modern energetic synth wave vocals. Catering to a range of audiences from hip-hop, to jazz, blues and neo-soul, the crisp symbols and funky jazz-like bass rhythm entertains the autotuned and electronically static, thrilling vocal melody. The fusion of genres in this song complement each other in a way that takes us to an otherworldly realm of music yet maintaining the unpolished and grit nature of jazz. This song breaks boundaries yet acts accordingly to how jazz is – characterized by Improvision, uniqueness and nerve.
The range of dynamics played throughout this song also creates excitement and anticipation by the use of stopping and starting the jazz drum melody. This song is jazz and groove.
But this song has more depth than what the fused genre itself offers. The theme of regret, escapism and letting go floods through the song. Let’s break it down and how the song plays this out. Let’s dance through the song.
My advice when reading this JOURNALISTIC analysis, is to simultaneously listen to the song to get the full experience.
Cover art from 000 CHANNEL BLACK album
_BY.ALEXANDER
2020
GET ME HIGHHHHH
The distorted, dry to little to reverb, mixing techniques let the lyrics sit close to the listener. The rawness is not passive, it's rough and raw, almost sensual. Making you feel that the evocation and experience feeling tense, until the improv style instrumental lets you to just, release.
Let us look at how the lyrics play out this feeling, word by word:
Regret / Accountability: The “damage we have done.”
Communicating the lack of communication: “You should have called before you come”
Consequences catching up: “you hear the trumpets now you run.” This is perhaps the strongest metaphorical image—the “trumpets” symbolize an alarm, a reckoning; once you hear it, reality strikes, so you flee or try to escape.
Desire to escape / moment of weakness: “Get me high / I need a smoke” can be read literally (craving a cigarette) or figuratively—as a yearning to escape stress, guilt, or pain.
How the Music & Lyrics Work Together
One of the strengths of “TRUMPETS” is how production, vocal delivery, and lyric converge to amplify meaning. The tonal minor key maintains a somber, introspective mood, supporting the weight of regret in the lyrics. The moderate tempo keeps us at a steady pace, to allow us to follow and get lost into the track.
Although it's easy to get lost into the track into a sort of trans, the texture mirrors the emotional conflict within the song; from a minimal texture at the beginning to later, fuller instrumentations echoing the intensification of the internal conflict, what better way to convey this than through jazz, the genre of self-expression, of allowing space to do whatever feels right. The repetition of motifs, lyrical and musical, reinforces the sense of being stuck in a loop, almost like this theme of guilt is haunting.
feel it through
This track pulls you in before you even realize what’s happening. It’s wrong in all the right ways - dirty, grimy, and gleefully abrasive. Autotune tangled with jazz shouldn’t work, but here it practically growls at you, insisting it does. The whole thing feels mean, disrespectful, and unapologetically rude—and that’s exactly why it hits. What better way to convey a theme than to feel it, hear it and experience it.
_BY.ALEXANDER - TRUMPETS (Visualizer) ft. 070 Shake
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