No Love is C minor with a heavy Ab (bVI) pull. The vocal parks on Eb, the minor third of the key, the pitch that names the mode. Chord counter across the song ties Ab and C at 26 windows each, so the flat-sixth carries as much weight as the tonic itself. The V (G) sits at only 10 windows, so the song never really uses a V-i cadence.
No Love · Hooray For Earth
C minor · 95.7 BPM · 4:15 · Krumhansl confidence 0.860 (highest on the album so far)
The whole-song 2-second chord-root count is Ab 26, C 26, F 23, Eb 19, G 10, Bb 8. In C minor that reads as bVI, i, iv, bIII, V, bVII. The bVI (Ab) equals the tonic in count, which is the classic flat-side-heavy C minor voicing where the submediant carries as much weight as the tonic. The V (G) at only 10 windows is striking: this is a C minor song that never really uses a dominant cadence. i moves to bVI moves to iv moves to bIII, then back to i, without G taking the traditional V role.
favorite momentV undercount. Only 10 G-chord windows in a 127-window song. The song refuses V-i.
Vocal parks on Eb (23.9%), the note that names the mode
Vocal histogram: Eb 23.9%, F 12.5%, Ab 11.4%, C 10.7%, D 7.8%. Every top-five vocal PC is in the C-minor natural scale (C, D, Eb, F, G, Ab, Bb). Eb, the minor third, is the most-used note. When the chord is Cm, that Eb is a chord-internal minor 3rd, the note that names the minor triad. When the chord shifts to Ab (bVI), the same Eb becomes the 5th of Ab. When the chord is Fm (iv), the same Eb is the b7. When the chord is Eb (bIII), the same note is the root itself. Four different chord duties, one held note.
favorite momentVocal Eb across four chord functions. Chord 3rd, chord 5th, chord b7, chord root, without moving.
Bass leans on F (21.0%) and E (17.8%), then Ab (16.3%) and C (13.5%)
Bass histogram: F 21.0%, E 17.8%, Ab 16.3%, C 13.5%, Eb 10.5%. The iv (F) is the most-used bass note. The bass E-natural at 17.8% is the striking one, because E is chromatic in C minor (the b3 flip). Read as a slash-chord bass note, that E is likely a Cm/E first-inversion voicing or an Ab/E voicing (Ab bass on the E for a moving-line color). The pattern only appears in the intro-verse windows (t=0-18s), so it is a verse-specific voicing shape, not a whole-song borrow.
favorite momentBass E in a C minor song. Chromatic bass under bVI or i to name a voice-leading line, not a mode change.