Something About You
Majid Jordan
A slow-burning romantic track that takes a simple grammatical construction — something about you — and excavates it for everything unspoken in attraction. Majid Jordan resist naming the quality, which is the song's central formal intelligence: the something remains productively vague, suggesting that the thing which most draws us to another person exceeds language's categorizing capacity. Ullman's production here is tighter than the duo's more ambient material, with a mid-tempo groove that gives Al Maskati's vocal performance a backbone to lean against rather than float above. His voice is particularly warm in this track, the delivery unhurried enough to suggest security in the feeling being described. There's a Toronto R&B lineage audible in the track's DNA — the influence of Drake's emotionally specific but formally ambiguous love songs, the Weeknd's sense of nocturnal atmosphere — but Majid Jordan arrive at something that feels distinctly their own through the duo's characteristic optimism, a warmth absent from both of their city's more famous exports. This is drive-home-after-a-first-date music, the song playing as possibility consolidates into something closer to certainty.
medium
2010s
warm, intimate, slightly nocturnal
Canada
R&B. Toronto R&B. romantic, warm. Builds quietly from unnameable attraction toward settled certainty, the something growing more felt as the song progresses. energy 4. medium. danceability 5. valence 8. vocals: warm, unhurried, secure, smooth, intimate. production: mid-tempo groove, nocturnal atmosphere, Toronto R&B sensibility, backbone arrangement. texture: warm, intimate, slightly nocturnal. acousticness 2. era: 2010s. Canada. Driving home after a first date as possibility consolidates into something closer to certainty.