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Originally Posted by jayswin
I absolutely love when Orbison comes in with his part. But that might be more to do with just loving his voice than anything special with this song.
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He is a gooder.
I just feel like they played it very safe with the structure of the song, perhaps too safe.
Maybe that's what happens with these super groups or big-time collabs. Rather than expanding exponentially on their collective muscial genius, they instead rely on recognition to get people excited. Whereas if they focused first and foremost on the music writing, they could really exploit their potential. But often you find with these collabs they just take a well-trodden path with the lyrics and melody.
"Everybody's got somebody, to lean on" is about as cookie cutter as you can get for lyrics.
Harrison's parts come across more signature to his personal style. And that's the thing I've always respected about him. Whatever he's contributed to, those contributions are authentic to him. He brought another dimension to the Beatles with his songs, rather than attempting to conform to what John & Paul had already done.