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Someday... you'll appreciate this (song commentary)
8. Wasted (Moroder/Bellotte), from A Love Trilogy, 1976, Casablanca. (Sexy/Falsetto)
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A Love Trilogy back cover, 1976 |
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The words of "Wasted" open up a double entendre reflecting both the mind altered state of disco patrons as well as the longing of a bitch resenting her mistreatment of the love of her life post-departure. Delivered in brilliant falsetto once again and predating "I Feel Love," Donna elicits memories of Billie Holiday's blues to a disco beat with her own style and the Moroder/Bellotte/Summer magic in full swing. A full orchestra is used to great effect to highlight the breaks and takes its place of subdued harmonies when the best instrument on the recording has its turn…Donna's own voice…as it should be (if only Quincy Jones had listened some years later). Donna never has to compete with the arrangement, although it is lush in its own right, has superb production value, and is standout among the disco orchestra style of the day. Of particular interest are the echolike synthesizer jams that almost sound like they are singing the same words "Wasted, I'm wasted…" when Donna is not singing them herself almost operatically. More dance-oriented than "Full of Emptiness" from LTLYB, "Wasted" takes its place as the song of loss and loneliness on Donna's second US release as "FoE" did before it and "Winter Melody" would soon after. One of the best expressions of the versatility of Donna's voice and her ability to use each of them in any musical style from ballad to jazz to electronica to rock.
(Written by David Thornton)
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