Synth Single Review:“Gettin' Heavy” by Power Rob & Fulvio Colasanto

By Karl Magi

Power Rob & Fulvio Colasanto’s “Gettin' Heavy” spills desire in shadowy tones, full of expectation and beguiling sensation, above heavy beats that fall with slicing bass. Razor blades of sound slash while prismatic tones contrast with throbbing power, and Power Rob gets hold of the lyrics, creating blazing attraction and evoking danger, while iridescent strings flicker to create radiance and contrast with the seething underpinnings.

Fulvio Colasanto’s feral guitar solo tears with cat-like claws, exuding passionate energy in contrast to the broadcasting of burning need pouring from Power Rob's compelling voice. All of the unadulterated craving within the vocals takes hold and stabs into my heart. A rhythmic pulsation trembles with jagged edges before Fulvio Colasanto’s guitar rips in again, spilling out ferocious wanting and uncontrollable lust before the contrasting strings create solar light and the song closes.

As nervousness courses through him, our storyteller notes that his “Coca-Cola ain't getting colder,” and he starts to wonder if the song's subject is “a millimeter from my heart.” He can't talk, and he won't talk, as she says, “Lately it's never ever been so painless, but I think I'm married with the madness” of those jet-black eyes.

“We’re getting crazy at 11:30 with a wicked feeling that we've come too far,” and the narrator can't control the song's subject as she gets bolder. But “it's been a minute since I'm coming undone.” The other person says, “Baby, you never ever met a lady, but I'm what you need, you never knew it from those jet-black eyes.”