Shine (Gwen Stefani song)
\”Shine\” is a song recorded by Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams. It is a reggae pop and ska song that is featured in the 2014 animated film Paddington. The song was originally intended for Stefani’s band No Doubt. A lyric video for the track was released on January 31, 2015, on The Weinstein Company’s YouTube channel.
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\”Shine\” is a song recorded by Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams. It is a reggae pop and ska song that is featured in the 2014 animated film Paddington. The song was originally intended for Stefani’s band No Doubt. A lyric video for the track was released on January 31, 2015, on The Weinstein Company’s YouTube channel, and included on the DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film. It was omitted from the film’s soundtrack album, as well as Stefani’s third studio album This Is What the Truth Feels Like. Critical response to the song was mixed, with some praising the pair’s chemistry and others criticising it for being too similar to their previous collaborations. It has been described as having a “ska quality” and a “crawling beat” by one writer. The lyrics revolve around the lead character PADDington Bear’s journey to London and his identity crisis. The track was made available as a promotional CD as a result of its submission for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but a full version of the recording was not released for public consumption.
A low-quality version was leaked on December 31, 2014, but it was never released to the general public. The song is composed in the key of E minor using common time and a moderately fast tempo of 140 beats per minute. Instrumentation is provided by strings, horns, a guitar, and a piano, to create what Music Times’ Carolyn Menyes described as a ‘mellow beat’. During the production, Stefani described Williams’ vocal range as ‘like a whisperer’ due to her ability to make her voice sound like that of a child.’ The song opens with an allegory about a bear with an identity crisis with an low note of D3 to the high note of A4. It ends with a “ska romp of pumped-up foghing brass and plodded-up plucked-up brass”.
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