Synth Single Review: “The World Is You” by The Blue Book Project & Nicolas Rixon
by Karl Magi
The Blue Book Project & Nicolas Rixon’s “The World Is You” conveys powerful desire and consuming passion. The song opens as active, varied percussion moves with a sweep and a tangled, ringing synth is joined by a brass section that erupts with jazzy liveliness above the catchy drum beat. The melody is groovy as a steadily pulsing sound in the distance vibrates with zingy dynamism.
Nicolas Rixon’s voice is like caramel, warm and flowing, capturing ardent emotion while the underpinnings drive forward. Harpsichord-like notes tremble along with his sensual performance, capturing all of the desire and fervour spilling out of the words.
The rhythm continues to jam forward as the steady pulse vibrates. The brass section burns with intensity while the vocals spill out with desire and zeal. The horn line is catchy as it blares with positive strength and Nicolas Rixon captures me with his performance while metallic notes glimmer with soft brightness and the rhythm pulses.
The chorus floats out with fiery joy while vibrating tones create urgency above the locked-in rhythm section. Nicolas Rixon’s vocals are full of honey-sweet warmth and trumpeting tones erupt with sunlight before the song ends with joy and need mingling.
Walking down the city streets, our storyteller sees people as shadows. He shuts his eyes and takes a look around, glancing into his heart. He says, “I can’t tell what’s going over me since I saw you last night dancing. Now I know my life came to the point that the world is you.”
On the city streets, “the racing cars seem so still.” As he shuts his eyes and empties his mind, he says he will take her home in his heart. He asks if his feelings are getting through to the song’s subject and if she can hear his message. He adds, “I can feel and breathe it in the air that the world is you.”
In Barcelona, he imagines himself having a fight at the bullring and singing in New York City for the song’s subject. In Paris, he says that he loves the Moulin Rouge, while in London Big Ben marks the passing of time. He continues, “The world is you and you are my world, girl.”
When the song’s subject is crying, she calls on him and, even if “the timing is not so right,” he promises that he will not turn his back on her, though the moment is hard.
To conclude, he says, “People dancing on the other side of a rainbow-coloured disco. I’m alone with you and to my eyes the world is you.”
