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That work was made by Gina Brooklyn at the unbelievable age of 17. Her voice sounds very mature. Imagine what result could be achieved years from now, with the experience and development.

It is not surprising that she has won a few music awards already. Performing, playing instruments and writing her own songs, it seems like that she's on the right track.

"Warning" was actually written about her friend who experienced a break up and love loss, but little time has past and Gina Brooklyn apparently got her bite of such incident.
The song talks about the suddenness of a pain that you get from the other side who stopped loving you. We're experiencing that suddenness in the song as well, as I'm going to describe later on.

I like it that the approach was "A warning" and not "The warning". It shows another mature act from Gina, because we don't really get warnings for break ups, even though we wish for one. Do we?

Writing that lot and I still haven't said anything about Gina's voice, an instrument you absolutely can't ignore. Well, I feel it is a bit beyond me to just talk about it. Striking. The sound of it, delivering the lines and the movements, all at the same time. She goes up and down the road of sound. Cleanly and smoothly. Brava Gina.


We are at Scaleter.com and therefore about to cover some musical characteristics that are worth mentioning.

Traditional song structure

"Warning" is giving me the opportunity to demonstrate a traditional structure of a Pop/Rock song which is used here:


The song has a natural structure of a verse and chorus following one another with a C part (or development as what would call musicologists in sonata form) before the last chorus.
There's also a 2 line bridge between the verse and chorus, showing up consistently. The development part doesn't sound too different from the other parts. It delivers a similar state of mind. Not giving up that part and the consistency of the bridge shows us that Gina knew what she was doing and how she wanted it to be.

The build up and sudden end

So, having the same Pop/Rock structure, the song needs to give us a balance with other elements and I think it delivers.
First, there's a good gradual progression with the drums, showing up only on the second verse, with rim shot and later with a snare drum.
Second, the song is covered with far away sounds by the guitar and synth and another sound which I'm not sure what it is and I like it (That I can't identify). These harmonies are a good substitute to a repetitive motif in that case.

Next is the singing, which is definitely more unique for Pop/Rock genre. I'd say it's touching jazz. I would even imply a tiny, tiny bond to Amy Winehouse's style in that matter. Wouldn't you? I see some affection there.

Last, but not least, we get a sudden end when the word warning doesn't show up for the last time. Just like Gina sings, the warning is not there. This absence brings a surprise to the ears.

Did you know, in a few music researches it has been revealed that our mind receives satisfaction in music from elements which we expect and from surprises, at the same time. It is a win win situation. When we wait for something to come and it does come, we get a sort of comfort. When we get a small change instead, we are satisfying our mind's curiosity.

Fourth minor chord on first inversion

In the chorus we will find a lovely deluding chord [1:19, 1:36, etc.]. The song is in Db scale and we would expect the fourth degree to be Gb, but instead we get a Gbm chord with first inversion, means that the bass root is A instead of Gb. At first I thought it to be a Dbm chord, then hearing the bass I tried Aaug but it actually was the merge of them both.
So here's the chord and the movement of the chorus for those who are interested. Enjoy.

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