“Back Down to Earth” is a song’s song. It is a modern standard you could imagine Michael Buble with a just about perfect verse anda derailed chorus (it is almost inverted -the the verse all hook, the chorus all momentum -weird but powerful) and then ends with a blast of textured loudness which seems to be coming from nowhere at al all though might represent either earth or somewhere else – or at least sharpness of a lost love.
Shaprow, a Yale graduate who writes jingles for Coca cola and jangles for VH-1, and inbetween is pegged electronica though on the strength of what I’m not sure (yet) seems to want to disrupt her gifts a bit here but the Americans songbook will know what to do with it.
Maybe the song -between verse and chorus- is an aural metaphor; the heavenly verse devolves to the disassembling chorus.
More than it appears to be… but I wouldn’t mind it played a touch straighter.