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In Don’t Call Me Up, the muffling drumbeat helps protect the song from boring, woodpecker-level 11 times repetition of ‘don’t call me up’. If you’re writing a song in English and you want to future-proof its meaning, it’s wise to do as Mabel does, and make the music support your message. The words will fight with the meaning of the song: ‘ without you, boy, I’m stronger’. If you sing the phrase ‘ don’t call me up’ exactly the same throughout the song, it will sound boring and repetitive. You’re celebrating your own decision to end the relationship. In the middle of the song, you’re singing about yourself and your joy in your freedom. At the beginning and the end of the song, you’re giving a clear message to your ex: “Stop phoning me”. The drum beat will help to muffle the p, but it’s your intention that will change the sound most.
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If you’re going to cover Don’t Call Me Up, don’t sing up exactly the same throughout. The drum beat has disappeared and we just hear Mabel’s voice. The very last time Mabel sings ‘ Don’t call me up’ she returns to the strong p of up. In the live video, her smile says it all: Mabel’s message is clear – not just from the way she sings that p, but in the way she luxuriates over the words that describe her new, active, happy life. That’s important – otherwise we might expect a reconciliation at the end of the song. Mabel’s words and her music weave together to make her ex-boyfriend’s repeated phone calls seem tedious, rather than an expression of desperate, misunderstood, romantic love. This time her words are accompanied by music, not silence. She changes the way she sings ‘ up’, softening the final ‘p’. By the second time she sings ‘ don’t call me up’, her energy isn’t on her ex, she’s turned it towards herself. Mabel begins to sing about herself and her enjoyment of freedom and singledom, with her good friends around her. The message shifts as the song moves along. The final ‘don’t call me up’ is certain, clear and strong. Everything stops – the only sound we hear is her voice, telling her ex, loud and clear, to stop bothering her.Īt the beginning of the song’s story, Mabel’s ‘faking it till she makes it’. The very first time Mabel sings the phrase, ‘ Don’t Call Me Up’, she puts power into the explosive sound of the p to make the first message of the song clear and strong. She changes the force of the sound as the song develops. Watch Mabel’s lips as she sings live, and you can see her moderating the force that she gives to the final ‘p’ of ‘Call Me Up’. Mabel’s voice control and her music make us feels the difference:
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The other 9 times, ‘ don’t call me up’ is an exasperated ‘for goodness sake, stop’. You’ll only hear the final ‘p’ as a strong, stand-out sound twice, when ‘ don’t call me up’ is a command – at the beginning and end of the song. Listen to the subtle difference she sings into the phrase ‘don’t call me up’, which appears 11 times in the song. Singles Chart, but it also entered the top 5 of the UK Singles Chart.Masterful singing from multilingual songwriter Mabel. How did “Don’t Call Me Up” perform on the charts? They are sung by Camille Purcell (who also co-wrote the song). Who sings the background vocals on “Don’t Call Me Up”? “Don’t Call Me Up” was released as the fifth single from Mabel’s debut mixtape entitled Ivy to Roses.On 18 January 2019, Polydor Records released “Don’t Call Me Up”, making it commercially available for purchase as well as streaming.
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DONT CALL ME UP BY MABEL MAC
Mac not only co-wrote this song, he also took care of the production in its entirety.Mabel worked with two notable songwriters (Steve Mac and Camille Purcell) to compose this song.They messed the chance up, and now is too late. She referred to the song as one that inspires someone whose been through a breakup to be strong – strong enough to tell their ex who treated them unfairly that enough is enough. According to Mabel, “Don’t Call Me Up” is a breakup song laden with a positive message.