Sunday, October 2, 2022

"So How Come (No One Loves Me)"

I was thinking about "So How Come (No One Loves Me)" this morning, and I realized that the shape of the melody illustrates a contrast.

The first verse of the Beatles' version is:
They say that ev'ryone
Wants someone
So how come no one
Wants me
There's a contrast even just in the words since "ev'ryone," "someone," and "no one" all rhyme with each other and leave "me" by itself, but this is illustrated in the melody too.  "Ev'ryone," "someone," and "no one" are all sung to higher pitches (B A B, B A G, and B A, respectively), but "me" is sung to a comparatively lower pitch (G).  Musically, then, there's a sense of "me" being apart and excluded.