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When it comes to music, in particular a song, there is always one part that sticks out and sends a chill or two up a listeners spine. In Ben Ratliff's Every Song Ever, Chapter 20 Slowly Fading Out Of Sight: The Perfect Moment, Ben elaborates on how a certain simple note or section of a song transcends past the listeners ears and creates an emotional or complicated connection. Ben Ratliff's definition of The Perfect Moment as, “often wordless, or indirect if it has words. It is the song blushing: an unplanned or perhaps only semiplanned occurrence in which the music suddenly embodies its own meaning.” I believe The perfect moment is an important element across all kinds of music, because every song I have listened to, has a perfect moment that drives my yearn to appreciate and continue to listen to the song.

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Out of all the artists Ratliff discussed in his The Perfect Moment chapter, I couldn't help but discuss Frank Sinatra. “Frank Sinatra was a literal singer: when he wanted to express happiness, he sang like a confident man. When he wanted to express sadness, he sang like a defeated one." As a true jazz fan, I could not help but agree with Frank Sinatra's ability to continuously expel his emotions and feelings for what he is singing into the listeners and have them feel exactly the same. Ratliff explains how on the record Only The Lonely, the repetitive lyric "What'd I'd do" allows listeners to feel his confusion about why he was thrown to the curb by his lover. Ratliff then reviews a few more songs that also help in the exemplification of how Frank Sinatra has the ability to transcend his listeners past the surface, thus being The Perfect Moment. “What makes this a perfect moment is that Sinatra performs within the drama of the music, not the emotion of its character: he becomes a faintly ridiculous man in the low tide.”

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After reading Ratliff's chapter 20 regarding The Perfect Moment in Every Song Ever, I have come to a conclusion that I strongly agree with his element. This element is something that has always pulled me into listening into a song repeatedly and or gave me something to look forward to when listening to a song. The perfect moment is elusive and cannot be forced. However, the relative recognizability of the song is not a factor in creating a perfect moment. Neither is whether the music might be an obvious choice.

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The best song in my music playlist that exemplifies Ratliff's element of The Perfect Moment would be For You I Will by Monica on her album entitled The Boy Is Mine. In this song, Monica sings and explains how she will do everything in her power to make sure her man knows she is there for him. The Perfect Moment in the song is not when she sings " For you I Will", but simple when she's sings " I will cross the ocean for you, I will go and bring you the moon." This is the magical moment to me because I feel it has the most emphasis on how willing she is to do any and everything for this man she so dearly loves. Why I believe this is so, is because swimming across the ocean and bringing someone the moon is impossible, yet Monica exclaims she will anyways.