Following on from Madam Bandit’s previous songs, including Lie To Me, which I featured back in October, comes Me Plus You. Timed to coincide with Valentine’s Day, Me Plus You is every bit as besotted as Lie To Me, but it depicts a relationship at a much earlier phase, and through an altogether more hopeful lens.
Where Lie To Me was a song filled with a desperate need for a suspension of disbelief, Me Plus You is about the experience of discovering someone who helps you discover yourself. With playful lyrics that talk to rocket science, calculations, and pi, the song feels like someone marvelling at the weird-yet-universal experience that it is to fall in love. It happens to us individuals in a way that is uniquely personal, and yet almost everyone experiences it. Science and chemistry and (just maybe) a touch of magic come together to create this incredible feeling.
Madam Bandit’s vocals teeter on the edge of naïveté, and yet the abject infatuation makes them irresistible all the same. The musical production applied to Me Plus You only adds to the feeling of drama, with warm chords, snappy drums and harp-like synth melodies. It all comes together to create the perfect soundtrack to giving into your more romantic side, and losing yourself in the thoughts of that special someone.