I love to move in here
by Moby
The head and glasses of the classy electro-dance
This entry on this blog is very special
because I am going to write about one of my favourite music artists; Richard
Melville Hall, best known as Moby.
The selection done by Richard of being
artistically recognized as Moby was supposedly because Herman Melville (writer
of the novel Moby Dick) was his
great-great-great granduncle.
Wherever his name comes from, Moby is
just one of the most important figures of the electronic music. It is
impressive how deep some Moby songs are inside of me, being able to touch my
soul and shake my heart. One of the factors I love the most on his songs is his
melody, the way he can harmonize the musical instruments and create a constant
flow of feelings. By far is a gift only belonging to this man. Trying to bring
some examples into the discussion, Porcelain
and Why Does my hear Feel so bad
from the album of 1999 Play are two
songs that makes you listen to your soul.
But wait, Moby is not only an emotional carrousel
of feelings. Of course not. Moby is also the energy of the electronic music in
his pure state. I have been eye witness of his power on the stage, firing up a
crowd of frozen people in a Bogota night, round about the year 2010 (thanks to
my sister, who invited me).
One of this sort of effervescent songs
(which was not played in Bogota) is I
love to move in here, from the album Last
Night, released in 2008. Is a song that softly, makes you get up, start to
shake your hands and move your feet, sing a bit perhaps, and enjoy for sure for
about 5 minutes of song length.
J'aime Moby
The song starts with a basic soft
electro-tempo, to then add a melodic girl voice that repeats: “I love to move
in here”. Some kind of soft yells are introduced at the background producing
like a disco atmosphere or something like that. All this is suddenly cut off by
half when the rapper Grandmaster Caz comes into play with a solo voice of
around 40 seconds, adding some extra force to the song. The rest of the song is
Moby’s magic in action: mixing these two different styles in one single musical
line till the end of the song is reached.
The music video is, as it can be
expected, played in a disco. The surprise is the main actor, a fluorescent blue
octopus, which goes into the disco and from nothing becomes the star of the night,
with its “unique” movements on the disco floor. In some parts of the video,
Moby is showed sitting in a red couch, spending a good time in a disco.
Grandmaster is there when singing his solo, and supporting some of the octopus
dance moves. Definitely, this is one more reason why Moby is Moby, why that
bold head and square shape glasses are so famous around the world, why he is
one of the artist I want to be played when I die.
I specially love this song, because it
was the soundtrack of one of the best times in my life. I was new in those
lands, I was by myself; waiting just to be happy. And I was happy, extremely
happy. I just remember myself shouting in my bike: “I LOVE TO MOVE IN HERE”.
Thanks.
T'estimo Barça
Smile! is free.
