Keep Them Close

Pop with mid-tempo four-on-the-floor bounce and syncopated handclaps; verse keeps a tight bass pulse and bright pluck pattern, pre-chorus lifts with filtered percussion and stacked oohs, chorus opens with wider drums and gang vocal doubles on the hook. Use intimate lead vocals, soft harmony stacks, and short delay throws on the last word of each hook line. Add a riser into the chorus, a reversed swell before the bridge, and a final lift with shimmery chimes. Bright, polished, radio-clean mix with warm low end., pop