The result? A treat for everyone except the people at Greenpeace, who might not approve of a song that requires at least two Kleenex mansize every time you play it." Financial website MarketWatch branded the song a "passionate ballad" and Shontelle's vocals "soulful". Nothing is impossible when a vocal sounds as effortless and anthemic as this." Ryan Love of Digital Spy gave the song five out of five stars, writing: " Arnthor Birgisson's StarGate-style production is appealingly restrained, Ina Wroldsen's lyrics are blunt and utterly relatable, and Shontelle gives her strongest vocal performance yet without ever overdoing it. The 24-year-old's vulnerable delivery demands attention. He said "Shontelle shines on 'Impossible', giving one of the year's standout female vocal performances and recalling the poignancy and technical precision of Beyoncé's " Irreplaceable". Michael Menachem of Billboard loved the song. Meanwhile, the production, helmed by Birgisson, was compared to Norwegian production team, StarGate who are, coincidentally, the team responsible for producing "Irreplaceable".
Billboard 's Michael Menachem described her vocal precision as similar to that of Beyoncé's in " Irreplaceable". draw the strength to carry on past a break up where you're the one in the embarrassing position." Shontelle uses a vocal range from E ♭ 3 to D ♭ 5 in the song. I just wanted to put a song out that gave people hope – things may not work out the way you want them to, but you can move past it and everything is gonna be okay. In an interview with J-14 magazine she said "I knew that there was no song out there for heartbroken people. It was conceived after Shontelle stated that she felt that radio was currently missing a "heartbreak ballad". The song's backing track consists of a simple chord progression of Fm 7- A ♭- E ♭- D ♭. The melody is to be played in a moderate tone and tempo. “And now when all is gone there is nothing to say, and if you’re done with embarrassing me, on your own you can go ahead tell them.” “If you’re done with embarrassing me, on your own you can go ahead tell them” He is challenging her to tell everyone the truth, He know’s she will tell people and wan’t the truth shouted from “ the rooftops“.Ī heartbreak song, A great one with so much emotion in his voice, you can hear the hurt in his voice, he sings with soul."Impossible" is a midtempo R&B ballad written by Arnthor Birgisson and Ina Wroldsen, in the musical key of A ♭ major with a time signature in common time and a tempo of 92 beats per minute. “Thinking all you need is there, building faith on love and words…empty promises will wear, I know.” He thought they would be happy forever and didn’t realize that she wasn’t happy. “Falling out of love is hard, falling for betrayal is worse, broken trust and broken hearts, I know.” He knows he must move on but knows she didn’t love him, He felt he betrayed his trust by lying to him. Possibly felt bad for him, liked this guy but not love, didn’t want to hurt him she realized stringing him along wasn’t any better than breaking his heart later on. “ You have gone and so effortlessly you have won…” The girl didn’t need to move on, She wasn’t in love with him. I was careless, I forgot…I did.” He forgot his mothers advice to not give his heart so easily and was careless. He started the relationship telling her how much he loved her, this made him feel vulnerable as he was giving his heart to her, backed up by “ You were strong and I was not…my illusion, my mistake. My “music video” that I see when I close my eye’s and feel the music, Is a guy being careful, not giving his heart away because his mother told him to be careful, He is in love with a girl he barely knows, but knows it is love, he gives himself to her, tells her he loves her, This is backed up by “I remember years ago someone told me I should take caution when it comes to love…I did.” Having ‘did’ in the past tense to me just backs up the fact that he was careful but he met this girl and fell in love. The original is sung by a woman but James makes the song his own by his vocals, The way he sings it I imagine it being a guy, hurt by his girlfriend. Some people I know say, ”If heartbreak didn’t happen, the music industry would go broke.” In some ways I agree, but music is more than a way for singers to tell the world they got dumped or hurt. X factor Video Official Single Lyrics Video