Harmonically speaking, we only have two sections the verse (which gets recycled as the chorus) and the prechorus. It sounds like there are at least 2 bass tracks in the first chorus I can hear both the low F and its octave at the same time (bar 27), so the transcription is my best attempt to give an overview of everything that might be going on. Speaking of which, the bass hook of ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling!’ is the main focal point of the song. Granted, some of them might be utter garbage, but he certainly knows his way around a hook. Unless you get a kick out of obsessively scouring Wikipedia, or CD booklets for detailed performance and production credits (which I genuinely do…) then you probably won’t have heard of Jonas, but he’s had a hand in writing and producing a staggering number of hit songs.
The liner notes credit Swedish producer Jonas ‘Shellback’ Schuster as the bassist. Lots of proper bass, positively dripping in envelope filter and funky enough to make even the most stubborn of heads bob.
In this case, we’re presented with the best-selling song of 2016 in the US a song created by über-producer Max Martin, sung by a former teen boyband member and packaged as the lead single for a film aimed directly at children: not a promising start. But then, after 25 seconds of listening to Can’t Stop the Feeling, we’re greeted with bass. Sometimes, it seems, bass players can find joy in the most commercially-orientated of places.
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