Monday, October 20, 2025

"Your Wildest Dreams"

I was thinking about "Your Wildest Dreams" recently and realized that "wildest" in the title phrase is sung with a melisma (most of the time, it's A G F#, but there are also D C B C and D G F# in the coda).  Because the word isn't constrained to its usual number of syllables, there's a sense of its meaning.  Additionally, the extra syllable indicates (in a small way) the superlative nature of this adjective (more notes for a greater degree).