Hey Jude

Capitol, under Universal. It tells a hurting person to take the sad song and make it better.

Capitol is the imprint on the American shelf. Universal holds it now. The song was written for a child watching a marriage come apart, and it refused to be clever about that.

This is one a house can sing. The na-na-na at the end is not nothing. It is a room deciding to stay with the person who is hurt.

The eight

Industry
8/10
A melody this simple is harder than it looks.
Household
8/10
It is sung toward someone who is not all right, and it stays.
Piety
6/10
Comfort, not a creed, but it does not sneer at comfort.
Courage
6/10
It asks the listener to begin again.
Republic
5/10
A private mercy. The town is not the subject.
Temperance
7/10
No binge. A long refrain that holds, instead of escalating.
Truth
7/10
The pain is admitted. The answer is not a lie.
Stewardship
9/10
People still sing it when someone is down. That is a handing-on.

Live historicallySing the refrain the next time someone in the house is quiet for the wrong reason.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1967

Atlantic · Warner Music Group

A Natural Woman

Atlantic, under Warner. Restoration. Not a makeover. A return.

Atlantic released it. Warner holds Atlantic. The song begins in a coat, in the rain, with no strength left for the performance of being fine. What meets her is not a crowd. It is a person whose love makes her able to live in her own life again.

That is a high aim for a love song. Keep it.

The eight

Industry
9/10
The vocal finds a new room every time she says the word.
Household
8/10
She was in the house, depleted. Someone's faithfulness met her there.
Piety
6/10
Soul is the word she uses, and she does not cheapen it.
Courage
6/10
She tells the before, which was not glamorous.
Republic
4/10
A private rescue.
Temperance
7/10
Gratitude, not a binge.
Truth
8/10
The tiredness was real. So is the change.
Stewardship
8/10
A picture of what love is for when a person is used up.

Live historicallyPlay it for the person who has been carrying the week. Then take one weight off them today.