Must Do Something About It
| "Must Do Something About It" | |
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| Song by Wings from the album Wings at the Speed of Sound | |
| Published | McCartney Music Ltd. |
| Released | 25 March 1976 |
| Recorded | 5 January 1976 |
| Genre | Soft rock |
| Length | 3:42 |
| Label |
MPL Communications (UK) MPL Communications/Capitol (US) |
| Writer(s) |
Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney |
| Producer(s) | Paul McCartney |
| Wings at the Speed of Sound track listing | |
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11 tracks
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"Must Do Something About It" is a song credited to Paul and Linda McCartney that first appeared on the Wings 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound.
The lead vocal was sung by Wings drummer Joe English rather than by McCartney, the only Wings song on which English was the lead vocalist. This was part of McCartney's attempt to democratize the band; each of the five members of Wings had at least one lead vocal on Wings at the Speed of Sound. McCartney decided to have English perform the lead vocal after the backing track had been recorded. A version of the song was recorded at the time with McCartney on lead vocal and remained unreleased until November 2014 when it was included as a bonus track on the remastered album.
The song's lyrics tell of the singer's loneliness. In each verse, the singer sings about some aspect of his lonely life, including watching a sunset by himself or playing cards alone. In the chorus, the singer sings that he "must do something about" his loneliness, and the phrase "must do something about it" is repeated several times throughout the song. The music reinforces the meaning of the lyrics. The length of the verses is an asymmetric five bars, emphasizing the instability of the singer's loneliness, while the chorus is a symmetric four bars, emphasizing the hoped for stability when the singer does something about it. The harmony in the chorus is also more stable than that in the verses. Instrumentation for the song includes acoustic guitar and slide guitar. The song is in the key of D major, although the guitar is capoed and tuned to sound more like E-flat major.
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