Just as powerful as the track – in an equally minimalistic way – is the song’s music video. Raw, transparent, and introspective, “Weight in Gold” is a gem to be treasured. An aching can be felt in the listener’s very bones as the song soars into its emotional apex, paralleled by Gallant’s howling upper register. Gallant has a knack for the “less is more” mantra as he finds a way to electrify his audience with each of his ever so brief verses. I’m pulling my weight in gold Call me anxious, call me broke But I can’t lift this on my own Gallant © 2014 I never thought I was bold enough You pushed me further but I can’t lift this on my own.” While Gallant demonstrates his enormous range and his ability to dip effortlessly from a belting falsetto to a hushed croon, his poignant lyricism in the second verse tears at the listener’s heartstrings. He longingly wails, “I’m pulling my weight in gold. The song is an unrestrained cry for help. He immediately slides into the chorus, accompanied by effervescent synthesizers and gospel-tinged vocals in the background. In come Gallant’s breathy falsettos as he deliberately emphasizes the weight of each lyric in the first verse. The tactfully lethargic beat steadily opens the track as riffs from a soulful blues guitar crackle through the intimate silence. Contemporary R&B thrives on the themes of love, sex, and partying, whereas Gallant’s craft is in his powerful hook that takes on a more yearning theme. Boasting a vocal capability reminiscent of a Sam Smith/Usher superhuman, there’s a quality lingering in his style that leaves him just outside the traditional realm of the R&B genre. We felt comfortable in Egypt's demand for LNG over a five-year period and we still feel that there's a good chance Höegh Gallant will serve for longer, but it all depends on how quickly local reserves are developed.Los Angeles-based crooner Christopher Gallant – known to his fans as Gallant – dazzles the alt-R&B scene with his new single, “Weight in Gold,” released earlier this year. Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears. We are out in the field fearless of our shadows. Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears. Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy: We appreciate the gallant efforts of the Nigerian military, hunters and vigilantes that saw the liberation of our towns. In the two latter senses it has commonly the accent on the last syllable. A wooer one who courts a woman for marriage. The next carried a handsome young fellow upon her back: she had left the good man at home, and brought away her gallant. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor. One, worn to pieces with age, shews himself a young gallant. A whoremaster, who caresses women to debauch them. Gallants, look to’t, you say there are no sprights īut I’ll come dance about your beds at nights.ĭryden. Their fauchions brandish’d at the grisly spright. The gallants, to protect the lady’s right, The gallants and lusty youths of Naples came and offered themselves unto Vastius. That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and taylors. The reformation of our travell’d gallants, In gallant thought to plume their painted wings.Įtymology: from the adjective. When first the soul of love is sent abroad, He discoursed, how gallant and how brave a thing it would be for his highness to make a journey into Spain, and to fetch home his mistress. Make gallant shew and promise of their mettle. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith Scorn, that any should kill his uncle, made him seek his revenge in manner gallant enough.īut, fare thee well, thou art a gallant youth.Ī gallant man, whose thoughts fly at the highest game, requires no further insight into them than to satisfy himself by what way they may be performed. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave,Įdmund Waller. Gay well dressed showy splendid magnificent.Ī place of broad rivers, wherein shall go no gally with oars, neither shall gallant ships pass thereby. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: galant, French, from gala, fine dress, Spanish.
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