L O V E I T V I O L E T – JOHNNY’S SKETCHY TAXI GIRLS (Single Review)

LOVEITVIOLET has a new AI-assisted single, ‘JOHNNY’S SKETCHY TAXI GIRLS’.

Created with Suno, the prompt shows that the artist wanted a song that evoked the 1960s. The instrumentation is an upright piano, ‘acoustic deep loud upright bass’ and three ‘organ fills, baritone saxophone solos’ and ‘blues electric guitars, acoustic guitar strumming, tiny bells’ and tambourine.

Looking at all these instruments, you’d think the song’s busy, but the arrangement is chilled really. It sounds like swing to me. And what also comes out nicely for me is the chilled drumming.

In this song, the vocalist is female, and she has a sweet voice. ‘Taxi girls, taxi girls’, she sings. As our narrator reveals, we meet these taxi girls feigning hopscotch at the Baltimore and Poe cross.

The lyrics also reference Easter, the imagery created being that of the Easter midnight snow. We later meet the taxi girls skimming through the snow.

The lyrics challenge one to think deeply. They are also poetic and absurd: one line goes, ‘town square is always a circle’.

Snow is referenced a lot in this song. Whereas the instrumentation and vocals are chilled, the lyrics seem to be unnecessarily busy. Later on we meet the taxi girls basking their braided cornrows, and not before long freezing ‘their profiles for the desert storm vets’.

SCORE/Good: As with the other recent song I reviewed from this artist, the instrumentation and vocals are commendable; the lyrics is where I start to squirm! The lyrics here seem to wander in every direction. This is more or less the issue I had with the other song, but with this track, my other issue is the song’s duration. It could have been shorter.

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