Florence Welch's Song 'Shake It Out'

Just two weeks ago I went to a Florence concert at the Bank Atlantic Center to accompany a friend of mine. Little did I know Florence + The Machine was going to be my newest obsession. Florence + The Machine’s energy in the concert flows through your veins, I absolutely fell in love with their songs and such inspiring lyrics. “Shake It Out” stood out the most because I feel it’s so relevant to our teenage lives. Florence Welch, the singer and song writer of the band, describes this song as the “hangover cure” song. Florence claimed that she felt many regrets haunting her and suddenly sitting in the studio while her producer, Paul Epworth, was playing around with organ chords she wrote the song within half an hour. I feel the song lyrics came so easy to Florence because as I state again, this song can relate to anyone and everyone. “I 'm always dragging that horse around, our love has pastured such a mournful sound, tonight I 'm gonna bury that horse in the ground.” From break ups and heartbreaks to deaths, or any personal emotional struggle anyone is going through, this specific line is the inspiration to keep strong
The reason I believe the song is crescendo is because in the beginning of the song, it’s the slow and haunting memories bothering Florence and as the song keeps on, you learn to “shake it off” and she starts singing in a happier, stronger tone. Hence why I believe this song has not one, but two tempos. The very beginning of the song where she is acoustically singing with the piano in a dark husky voice has an adagio tempo, as the song gets happier and Florence gains strength and vanishes all her haunts and worried it becomes a very vivace tempo. The pitch held throughout the song is quite high being at an F major scale. The texture in this song is homophonic. Lastly, the instruments being played in this melody are the piano, drums, guitar, and