Cool 6/4 groove going on here. As always, a classy production. I'm trying to figure out what kind of vibe this is, it has elements of jazz/tropicalia/avant-pop. I'm curious to know how the use of duolingo will be taken by the judges. A leap too far, or will the music save it? I wish you luck with that equation.

I liked the shorter lines. The vocal is well performed. On first listen (on the shitty work speakers) I felt the rhythm was a bit too.. erm, busy? or just a bit at odds with the lovely vocal. Listening back in the studio and I'm feeling the arrangement works much better. This song was at the bottom of my top tier.

I really liked the marriage of subject matter with genre in this one. The 6/4 vibe with frequent modulations between major and minor chords works really well to evoke Parisian sophistication. The use of Duolingo as your "guest" kind of raised some questions for me—not regarding whether that counts as a valid interpretation of the challenge, mind you, just... why? I guess you wanted to imply that Erin's character is just learning French and is speaking in broad generalities because she's never actually been there? But then there's also some subtext of spy stuff, and I don't really get what "Look away / You're too late" means, but... ah heck, I don't know, it's just really easy for me to get swept up in the beautiful musicianship and coy vocals. For the first few rounds I was talking about how great it was to hear Erin take her voice to a new level of power and "oomph," but here we have a song that's really written and arranged to play to the strenth of her more precise delicate vocal range, and I welcome this approach too. It's honestly a little surprising that I haven't heard you guys in a commercial or as background music on an network drama yet.