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"Straight Up" is performed in the key of D minor with a shuffling tempo of 96 beats per minute in common time and a chord progression of Dm–B ♭ –Gm–Am. Running a total length of four minutes and eleven seconds in its original version, the song finds Abdul's vocals span from A 3 to C 5 in the song, while the singer questioning her partner if he was genuinely loving her or "just having fun".
The 7-inch, 12-inch, and CD singles featured Steven Margoshes's piano solo "Pray Lewd" (incorporating elements of "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"), Steinman's monologue "I've Been Dreaming Up a Storm Lately", and "Requiem Metal", a sample from Verdi's Requiem Mass, all from the album Original Sin.
A popular belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel. [1] The song refers to a "tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well..."; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel, which still operates in a newer building on the same site as the old hotel. [2]
The song is set in the key of D ♭ major with a main chord pattern of B ♭ m7–G ♭ sus2–D ♭ /F-D ♭ sus-D ♭ –A ♭. [2]Co-writer Josh Osborne said that when writing the song, he and the co-writers were composing melodies when co-writer Sam Hunt suggested to make it a "kind of desperate thing, like the guy is pleading with this girl to come over."
In his work Leonard Bernstein, Humphrey Burton explained: "When it was decided to add Tony’s first-act song "Something’s Coming," Bernstein and Sondheim raided the scene-setting page in Laurents's outline. "something’s coming," Laurents had written: "it may be around the corner, whistling down the river, twitching at the dance – who knows?"
"Post to Be" is composed in the key of D ♭ major with a tempo of 97 beats per minute. [5] The song follows a chord progression of B ♭ m–A ♭ –D ♭ –G ♭ . [ citation needed ]
In a positive review, Zumic.com called the song a "mid-tempo punk anthem" with "aggressive distorted guitar chords." It also commented, "thick bass lines are strong, and drummer Pete Parada’s power behind the kit is relentless. The tune sounds fresh and alive, and proves that the band can still deliver high energy punk anthems."
In 1988, Samuels wrote and recorded "They're Coming to Get Me Again, Ha-Haaa!", a sequel to the original record. It was released two years later, but never charted. In the song, the narrator has been discharged from the mental hospital but remains plagued by insanity and fears being readmitted. At the end of the song, he exclaims, "Oh, no!"