Ex's and Oh's Analysis (DP1 Music)

The song I chose for this blog post is Ex's and Oh's by Elle King because I recently discovered it (thanks to Alt Nation) and am currently obsessed with it.

Structure

• 0:00 - 0:35 = Verse One (A)
• 0:35 - 1:09 = Chorus (B)
• 1:09 - 1:37 = Verse Two (A)
• 1:37 - 2:18 = Chorus (B)
• 2:18 - 2:32 = Bridge (C)
• 2:32 - 3:22 = Chorus (B) 

Like most songs in pop culture today this song has several verses and a repeating chorus, as well as a short bridge. Each verse has a melody that repeats twice within each verse, to repeat four times overall. The chorus also has a double period melody. The bridge consists of a guitar solo that follows the same sort of melody but has slight variation because it goes higher when the traditional melody goes lower. 

There is not a particular form when it comes to binary or ternary because of the A-B-A-B-C-B format. There are two many sections for it to be binary, and the presence of the C portion stops it from being ternary. The song in general can be considered modified strophic form because parts of it do repeat.