Broadjam Artist: Redlady8029
Song: Help me feel safe
Reviewer: John Walradt
Positive Comments: These bluesy lyrics will bring you right into the living room and make you feel like the distraught soul is pleading with you, or you may be reminded of how you felt when you were in her situation. Either way, it hits your heart! This would be a great album cut, and a much requested song for Tracy Chapman. It is conversational, desperate, and puts this core feeling of needing reassurance and effort across in an emotionally powerful way. The tune is easy to follow and compliments the lyrics well, rising to a climax as it moves through the chorus.
Constructive Comments: You have a very good melody and lyrics to match that anyone could enjoy and sing with an instrument or not, and that’s 90 percent of it, so an automatic five stars. Here’s a few things you might like to experiment with: how about a heavier, grittier female vocal? A stronger strum on the guitar, maybe a second guitar emphasizing the eighth notes in the chorus. Just something to give it more richness and some punch! Production is about personal preferences, of course, because the song itself is the base and the proof of everything, and you are a terrific songwriter!