Adam Melchor Takes the Concept of the Melodramatic Love Song and Makes it Endearingly Eccentric on “I Choose You”

AdamMelchor2_sm — Adam Melchor, photo courtesy the artist

Adam Melchor declares on “I Choose You” that if he was going to be stranded on a desert island, instead of something practical, essential or even one of those records that gets bandied about, he chooses a particular person. It is an unorthodox love song making such a statement of devotion but the song itself is a bit unconventional for a pop song. The spacey sounds and bizarre voices in the background of the simple guitar melody already sets your expectations outside the realm of the normal. Melchor’s voice contains the conviction inside a playfully imaginative song in which he indulges moments of fantastical statements like “Out of billions of people I’ve got it down to two, I choose you” to mince no words about his intentions. In doing so, Melchor takes the oftentimes hackneyed premise of a melodramatic love song and turns it into something endearingly strange and otherworldly to match the premise. Listen to “I Choose You” on Soundcloud and follow Melchor at the links below.