There’s nothing quite as warm as hanging around a group of talented musicians jamming together, playing in blissful harmony. Benee encapsulates that feeling beautifully with her newest single, ‘Doesn’t Matter’.

There’s something uniquely comfortable about ‘Doesn’t Matter’. The song takes no time to get started, with only a few bars of the looping guitar loop when Benee jumps in with her gorgeous vocals. The melody in which she takes to traverse over the very optimistic chord progression gives this bittersweet feeling to the composition, especially in the second-half of the first chorus, specifically over the lines “maybe I’m consumed by my mental / Does it hurt me? / Maybe, oh well”. There’s something quite ethereal about it in particular, especially with the lyrical content over it. It serves as a pre-chorus of some sort, since that line is repeated a few times over the course of the progression without a change in the production, which is reserved to the actual chorus. The simple bass/guitar/drum/vocal/synth composition of the verses is preserved in the chorus, bridged by a brief pre-chorus, but layered with harmonies and floating sounds that elevate the dynamics perfectly. The chorus is just as catchy as that aforementioned line, and its simplicity with have you humming the melody for days on end.

‘Doesn’t Matter’ is a very special song that holds many values without particularly belonging in any genre, and that’s because it doesn’t try to fit in any mold. It’s happy with simply ‘being’, and that’s what makes it so fun and comfortable. Benee did a wonderful job capturing the cinematic feeling of jamming with friends, while being heightened with production elements that are very hard to capture organically in an actual jam setting. And best of all she makes it seem so effortless, going perfectly hand-in-hand with the theme of simply existing without trying.

Author: Nicholas Gaudet

Music producer and writer from Dieppe, Canada.