yo what's going on guys so today's song i will be reviewing and reacting to is by the google dolls
it's called iris it's a track that was released in 1998 as the soundtrack to a nicholas cage movie
called city of angels where nicolas cage plays a angel who falls in love with a regular woman now
aside from the song i think that would be super interesting to watch if you know anything about
nicolas cage's acting he has some interesting choices he makes let's say but aside from that
in terms of the context of the song i think that my expectations going in is that it's going to be
at least a little bit cheesy but that's fine i'm okay with a little bit of cheese in my music um
that may change also after listening to the song but in terms of the actual band
this seems to be the height of their popularity this is their biggest hit
i'm pretty sure so um i'm interested to see what it sounds like so let's check this out here we go
very dreamy guitar intro forever
okay couple bars into it in terms of the lyrics um you have what seems to be like a diary entry
um someone like spilling their feelings out to someone else um again in terms of the
context of the song being for a romantic movie totally makes sense it sounds like we're also
building up to something this is like this sort of simmering before
what would be like uh the boiling point so let's see where this goes
very sweet lyrics
broken i just want you to know
wow okay i i i really like that chorus um lyrically i mean it's uh it's kind of cheesy
it's sort of like a nicolas sparks movie like a notebook type vibe um but i like it
i like it this is um this is someone sort of uh spilling their heart out to their heart out to
a uh to a lady that they're in love with um my favorite line so far that he sang was um
when everything's made to be broken i just want you to know who i am
which is a super sweet sort of uh bar there i like that i just want you to know who i
am if you get me then it's then it's all okay um and yeah we kind of did see the uh
sort of building up to the big chorus dynamic going on there let's keep this going
there's definitely more energy to the song
yeah you bleed just to know you're alive i like that he doubled that up there
little accent i just want you to know who i am
okay so i imagine this band playing this song as the encore to their like one and a half hour long
performance like this is the final thing that they do before everyone goes home and i can see
it totally crushing because um this music is super emotional very impactful it's so
big i mean these guitars would like completely take over all the sound
um the drum is very sort of echoey and thudding so i mean this is really made for encores
yeah again the chorus is really where this thing hits home really like the song so far oh
interesting so i mean i've not gone all the way through this break but they didn't go with a
guitar solo um sort of breakdown there they went with more of
like a musical breakdown where the drums played a part of it
and the guitars were kind of rhythmic there interesting interesting choice
oh here we go with the guitar solo
oh i can hear some things sort of rising in the background as well
okay
i totally can see like the image in my mind is like um that was the build up of like the
moment the biggest moment of the movie like walk this raining and the two lovers are like
just found each other through a crowd and they just embraced each other and now with the break
happening they've like sort of turned around and said their goodbyes and they're walking away
yeah like this is them with their backs turned to each other
and then like remorse starts building up
one kiss isn't gonna be enough
and then they turn around
who i am
crescendo
i love the strings as well adds a lot
wow great great finale to that song
sort of a sweet ending there yeah so going into the song i thought that perhaps it'd be a little
bit cheesy and you know it probably is slightly but it's super impactful more than anything and
uh it's got a great chorus to it again i can imagine this being the the final track or like
the encore to a great performance um in terms of like perhaps i guess this band or this song would
be considered like indie rock maybe and within the genre of music maybe you know the google doors
aren't thought of as like the best musicians um the same way like if someone could say you know i
don't really like hip-hop but i'm into drake where i might judge them a little bit like you know
okay that's a bit of a basic choice but because i'm not attached to the genre at all none of that
has an effect on me i just think this is a great song none of the cheesiness maybe this song was um
played a lot during adverts or whatever in the 90s and like the the song the the film was a
a cheese first or whatever the case may be because i'm like 20 years removed from this it's just
a great romantic track about person giving their sort of uh spilling their hearts out to
another person and my favorite lyric which they sort of emphasized through the whole thing was
when everything's made to be broken i just want you to know who i am and he sort of repeat this
line again and again which i thought was a great choice it's the best line in the song if you ask
me um but all round great track man great track it's a super ear worm i can imagine myself singing
this to myself in the shower very very soon um other than that uh take care until the next one i
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