edging music
it's concerning how many "edging" metaphors i use
(like in porn when they don't cum)
so that halsey song, "gasoline" is like an edging song[^1] for me.
it's repetitive in an addictive way, because the melody in the first section never resolves...in the studio version.
but then in the live version she always resolves the melody on the final line before the chorus and it completely ruins the mystery for me
it feels like an american singer singing a scandinavian melody with restraints in the studio and who can't help herself bringing it to an american conclusion when in a more improvisational atmosphere.
[1] i call it a "scandinavian" melody only because i also observed it in tove lo's "stay high" and taylor swift's "blank spaces" (which sounds so different from her other music and is cowritten by a swedish songwriter) and i associate it with scandinavian electropop (repetitive, trancelike) ; also the backtrack to "faded" by Alan Walker