Bruce Sudano’s “Make the World Go Away”

Like the first few notes we hear before the pouring of audiological lust that comes screaming out of the ethers at the start of a grand symphony, the opening bars of Bruce Sudano’s “Make the World Go Away” are as telling as they are deftly erotic and evocative. We’re instantly drawn in with the instrumental introduction that paves the way for Sudano’s words inside of just a few seconds’ time, and once the singer starts to grace us with his groove-inducing words, we’re more than ready for the impact of his verse, even as strong as it is. “Make the World Go Away” doesn’t allow us to get past the fifteen second mark in the track without getting some legitimate emotion out of the audience, but in the next several minutes, it gets much more than that.

Sudano’s voice is angelic and soft, but it isn’t beaten down by the violent strut of the rhythm here at all. The beats get heavier and heavier as we travel further into the clutches of the melody, and though the build up to the chorus doesn’t exactly deceive us into thinking that something enormous isn’t about to come rushing over us, it doesn’t prepare us for the explosiveness of what lies around the first beefy bend in the track. Where some of his previous songs had a certain theme to their compositional integrity, I find none in this latest single from Bruce Sudano, which isn’t to say that he’s sounding scattered or impersonal in “Make the World Go Away” at all – if we get down to brass tacks, he’s breaking away from brandings altogether here.

The instrumental chugging on the backend of this track isn’t something that I probably would have mixed as loudly as it ultimately was, but at the same time, I suppose that I can understand what producers were trying to go for in making the melodic linchpin in the harmony as forceful and powerful as the lead vocal is in the song’s most essential spots. Bruce Sudano doesn’t have anything to prove to me – I’ve heard his work prior to this – but if there were any critics unsure of his depth as a singer, he shuts them down by putting up a serenade that pummels harder than any beat in this track does (a difficult task for any artist to accomplish).

“Make the World Go Away” brings us full-circle at the conclusion of its few minutes of play, and while it’s hardly the longest pop song making headlines this March, it doesn’t feel limiting or sample-sized even slightly. Bruce Sudano is all focus and zero filler in this single, and if his fans were hoping for an extension of the magic he’s created in his last few tracks, they’re going to be blown away by what he strings together in this fabulous melding of pop and contemporary grooving. This will definitely be in my playlist through the duration of the year, and when those long hot summer nights come around, I’m sure it will be just as awesome a listen.

Samuel Pratt