Musical Analysis Of Simone White

Simone White is a folk female singer-songwriter. She realised her first album in 2003 since then she has released four more albums and toured throughout europe and america. In her album Yakiimo she realised the song, Bunny In A Bunny Suit. This has become one of her more popular songs resting comfortably in the second slot. In this song she uses a combination of finger plucking, transposing using the capo, lyrics, and chord progressions to create the rather sad atmosphere around this song. To keep the mellow tone of her song Simone never leaves the gentle fingerpicking style she started with, nor does she change the tempo. Keeping with the slow tempo helps to set the mood of unchanging calmness and nostalgia that surrounds this song. Her
accompaniment and singing style also lends itself to this style of folk song. Simone sang in a lower range than her accompaniment which was transposed by means of placing the capo on the seventh fret of the acoustic guitar. At the beginning of the song Simone was struggling at addressing who she is and having the ability to express this. This can be seen in such lyrics as, “Imitating the person i’ve always been”. However, by the end of the song she came to difficult realization that she can be whomever she wants to be, as long as she believes in that chosen persona. This is shown in such lyrics as, “I guess it depends on who I believe”. Simone White was able to compose a song about a difficult question, “who am I?” and arrive at a definitive answer, “be who you believe in,” without seeming to force an answer upon the listener. She did this through both the melody, harmony, and lyrics throughout this song.