I’m not sure what streaming service I was using, nor do I remember how I came across it, but I arrived to the Bruno Major party very late. The song that hooked me in was “Nothing” and I heard it for the first time last month. The song features Major’s smooth velvet voice as he sings about the joy in doing nothing with another. The rhymes are particularly clever and though it never reaches a full moment of catharsis, the feeling of floating down a river will suffice.
Although “Nothing” is extremely relevant to our current global circumstances, Major has gifted us with an alternative song to listen to during this time of social distance and isolation. The song is the product of a collaboration between Major and four time Grammy-Winner Finneas which came together through a personal note sent by Finneas requesting they write together.
Offering a sweet-tempered guitar-driven ballad that sounds like a lullaby, “The Most Beautiful Thing,” poetically navigates our innate curiosities when it comes to love. Major wonders how he’ll meet his soulmate, “Will it be a pavement or a sidewalk...Will we meet on Baker Street, Or find ourselves on Melrose Avenue?” The track is glossed with soft harmonies and guitar slides which congruously anticipate love under a hopeful light.
The YouTube video aptly titled as a lyric and chord video takes the narrative one step deeper. The visual is of space enabling us to reconnect with our childlike wonders and remind ourselves of our finite time and smallness in relativity to the universe. The chords to the song are kindly incongruous to the lyrics at the bottom of the screen allowing those of us at home to play along. Although music offers us a profound auditory experience there is something special about playing a song. Playing brings us closer to the lifesource of the song enabling us to fully feel the music in our bones. Major offers us a beautiful visual experience as well as the opportunity to actively participate.
Do yourself a favor and listen to Bruno Major’s single, “The Most Beautiful Thing.”