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The notes B, D, and F# are emphasized in every measure of the verse, and the major sixth between D and B is emphasized from the pickup measure of the tune. (You’ll see that the score below goes straight from Post’s verse to Swae’s verse, which isn’t how the song goes, but the chorus is already transcribed in the graphic.) Let’s look at how Post uses these two notes throughout his verse prior. I’d like to push their analysis a little bit farther using one word: contextualization. (Disappointing, because I warned them that I might trash this graphic). Despite my initial doubts, I came to the conclusion after some analysis that Top40Theory was indeed correct. So why does the chordal sixth need to resolve over G but not over D? And it seems rather old-fashioned to assume that the 9 has to resolve down, especially when it’s repeated over an entire progression. On top of that, when it goes to IV (G), E is the sixth of that chord. The B in measure 1 never resolves to a chord tone, and B and E are the two pentatonic extensions of D Major, which means, to me, that they create a similar level of dissonance over that chord.
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This resolution to I is teased at in measures four and seven (using Top40’s numbering) when the melody, but not the harmony, goes to the tonic. In the chorus to Post Malone and Swae Lee’s Sunflower, the scale degree 2 at the end of almost every measure suggests an eventual melodic resolution down to D, or 1, on the tonic. I’ve reposted it below with the permission of the page admin. “Apparently, he’s too big.A couple of weeks ago, a post came up on my Facebook feed from Top40Theory. “‘Breakthrough’ is in the eye of the beholder,” a source close to the situation opined to Variety, noting that many of the committee’s members have “skin in the game,” although they are expected to be non-partisan. The key phrase in the rules is whether an artist “came into prominence” or “achieved a breakthrough into the public consciousness and impacted the musical landscape” before the year’s window of eligibility, and the committee decided that Post had. Sources tell Variety that in recent screening meetings, it was decided - over some strenuous objections - that Post is basically too successful to be considered for the category. Many Grammy categories, including best new artist, are determined by screening committees, consisting primarily of executives and producers, which meet and discuss candidates. In other Post news, last week sources said that the rapper will not be a nominee for best new artist at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
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It’s anthemic, but also heartfelt - the perfect soundtrack for Miles to discover the Spider-Man inside himself,” said Spring Aspers, Head of Music, Creative Affairs Worldwide for Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. “Post and Swae have delivered a song that’s both heroic and emotional, which is exactly what a Spider-Man story needs.