Single of The Day: Stan Walker - Unbroken

Oleh: welly - 10 Jun 2010

PhotobucketMemenangkan sebuah Australian Idol memang jalan yang cemerlang bagi Stan Walker. Tahun lalu aja lewat album Introducing... Stan Walker yang dengan hanya satu single Black Box, dia mampu menggarap double platinum di Australia dan triple platinum di Selandia Baru. Dan dengan kekuatan itu, cowok berusia 20 tahun ini siap untuk kembali sukses dengan album keduanya yang direncanakan rilis antara bulan Juli atau Agustus nanti dengan judul From The Inside Out. Jadi kalau untuk sekarang, single pertama dari album itu adalah Unbroken yang sudah mulai diperdengarkan sejak 13 April lalu.

Kalau kamu merasa musik Stan Walker sangatlah urban dibandingkan Australian Idol sebelum-sebelumnya, maka kamu enggak salah. Pop R&B yang ditawarkan Stan memang kaya akan unsur kekinian yang membuat musiknya terdengar menjanjikan dan revelan dengan selera masa kini. Unbroken juga demikian, sedari detik 1 aja kita sudah yakin betul kalau lagu ini 'today' banget. Intro piano adalah favorit Ryan Tedder untuk memulai lagu, kemudian dibarengi dengan synth plus hook yang mudah diingat. Ryan emang konsisten dalam memberikan musik yang bagus.

Vokal Stan yang kita ketahui sebelumnya memang pas banget untuk R&B. Begitu juga untuk lagu yang satu ini. Secara alami menyatu padu dalam irama. Dan dengarkan di menit ketiga saat Stan memainkan suaranya dengan tekhnik falset hingga akhir lagu. Meskipun enggak sedahsyat Shayne Ward, tapi aku tetap suka dengan kemampuan vokal yang Stan punya. Aku yakin, dengan lagu yang mengisahkan tentang utuhnya lagi sebuah hati, Stan Walker mampu menaikkan namanya lebih tinggi lagi dan lebih luas lagi. Satu jempol untuk Stan dan satu jempol lagi untuk Ryan.

(Ai Hasibuan / CreativeDisc Contributors)

Lyrics:

I don't know what this is

But I can tell it's something that I can't miss

It's like your showing me where happiness lives

And all I have the strength to do is turn to you

With every empty space

I'm missing pieces only you can replace

I'm like a package saying please don't break

The contents are fragile, so I'm glad your here to stay

I can promise you that this heart

Was brighter than a falling star

And all the money that I could take

Now theres nothing more I can break

You picked up my pieces and put me together

There's no way you'd ever know

That my heart was breaking

Cause you came and threw me a line

I was falling apart but now I'm falling forever

For someone who wont let go

My love's a token

Because of you I'm unbroken

Now every piece of my heart is falling back into place

Time stops

When I'm with you I count the seconds I got

Cause every minute I was something I'm not

You give them back to me

It's like history, don't mean a thing

When I'm trying run away I can't hide

I'm in the dark and all I see is your light

And your shining brighter than anything I've ever seen

And I can promise you this heart

Will be a falling star

Cause you know what it means

You picked up my pieces and put me together

There's no way you'd ever know

That my heart was breaking

Cause you came and threw me a line

I was falling apart but now I'm falling forever

For someone who wont let go

My love's a token

Because of you I'm unbroken

Now every piece of my heart is falling back into place

I just woke up from a dream when I was in one piece

No fragment of me had ever seen these streets

Love held me together and it never let me go

I just woke up from a dream when I was in one piece

No fragment of me had ever seen these streets

Love held me together and it never let me go

There's nothing left for me to break

You picked up my pieces and put me together

There's no way you'd ever know

That my heart was breaking

Cause you came and threw me a line

I was falling apart but now I'm falling forever

For someone who wont let go

My love's a token

Because of you I'm unbroken

Now every piece of my heart is falling back into place

welly
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