Robby Goes High With His Voice On Debut Extended Play

Two great songs on Robby Monroe’s debut extended play: ‘Enough of You’, which you can really sing along to and ‘A Song Away From Me’ – a chilled romantic song that be making you think about love.

‘Enough of You’ is the first song off Robby Monroe’s new extended play, Being Robby. The song has just two elements, which is just brave: the piano and bass, if bass is an instrument. I say brave ’cause producers tend to overdo their beats, adding this instrument and that instrument. But on ‘Enough of You’, Robby Monroe has been brave: just using the piano, bass and voice as instruments.

It’s an okay song that doesn’t elevate the beat at the expense of the vocals. Of course, some beats are almost as good as the whole song, and here I’m thinking of ‘Outta Control (Remix)’ . With ‘Enough of You’, I’m not saying the beat is overly amazing; but at least it doesn’t diminish the vocals.

Having referenced 50 Cent in this review, I should go on to say on that Robby Monroe is not a rapper. He’s a singer, and I love singers, especially in this day where everybody raps or does AmaPiano.

‘Enough of You’ is a song which you are meant to sing along to, what with his high pitched but angelic voice, if you will. Mix that piano and his voice, and I’m sure when you learn of the lyrics, you’ll sing along to it at the top of your lungs. The way it’s so meant to be sing-alonged to is almost ridiculous, the way Robby Monroe raises his voice.

‘I’m about to lose my decorum’, he sings at the beginning of the song, where he also says that everybody is trying to distract him from airing from his views.

As the song goes along, you hear Robby sing

I’m thinking of 2002

That’s when the fantasy shattered

2002 was twenty years ago, which makes me wonder: how old is Robby? But, although I won’t know his age, it’s nice to hear singers song about the past… you know, those days Twitter and social media wasn’t around.

Although I’ve praised ‘Enough of You’ for how you can sing along to it, I think the listener can find it hard to make out the words of the song, and if you can’t make out the words of a song, you never really know what the singer is saying unless you put your ears close to your speaker, but there’s something sad about the beat and the words (‘that’s when the fantasy shattered’).

After ‘Enough of You’, we go to ‘Bestie’. ‘Bestie’ starts with the voices of some ladies talking and giggling.

Beatwise, the song is different from ‘Enough of You’. It employs a typical contemporary R&B/Hip hop beat. Why ditch the piano, I have to ask.

‘Bestie, do you remember this?’ he sings – almost rapping.

We be talking about the future and the past

Again, Robby sings about the past, this time thinking of ’06.

So, glad we still laugh

If ‘Enough of You’ has Robby high-pitching his voice, on ‘Bestie’ his voice is more measured, calm and the result is that you can hear the bass of his voice, showing how versatile it can be, but on the same song, Robby returns to his high-pitched self. It’s jarring.

On ‘My Birthday’, the third song off the extended play, starts with the guitar. That’s Robby mixing it up, having given us the piano on the first song.

Again, we meet the high-pitched Robby. Perhaps this is the real Robby, the high-pitched Robby, if you will.

‘I’m a shy guy, but I’m just flirty’, he sings, and I even hear him mention Mariah Carey, before he goes on to sing ‘It’s my birthday’ a couple of times.

Beatwise, I talked about the song starting with the guitar, but, as I noted on ‘Enough of You’, Robby Monroe’s beats tend to use elements from popular songs. On ‘My Birthday’, there’s a short element that reminds me of music by Rae Sremmurd.

The piano returns on ‘A Song Away From Me’. The song is almost similar to ‘Enough of You’, the style, or the singing, I should say.

‘Let’s travel back in time when I first said “I love you”’, Robby sings, again talking about the past.

If Robby went high-pitched on ‘Enough of You’, he’s managed to tone his voice down for this romantic song, but as with ‘Enough of You’, he briefly goes high pitch again. This is unnecessary. 

‘You’re just a song away from me’, he sings.

Now touch my heart

Can you feel me?

‘I’m Good, Luv’ has a cheery beat. It’s a song you can dance to.

‘Not A Hashtag’ has a heavy metal sound to it.

If you walked in his shoes, you’d see how his heart is bruised, he sings.