[ SECRET POST #5853 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5853 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/l1uW15j.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. Thinking it's not a good song is an unpopular opinion?

Personally, I though it was an okay song. Then The Sweetest Thing forever ruined it for me. I can't listen to it now without laughing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I thought that song was considered not exactly one of Aerosmith's best, not only is it sappy and bland but it's exactly the type of song people aren't interested in seeing from that band. It did well in the Adult Contemporary charts but that is not their traditional demographic.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I remember reading a review of the song on the old Epinions website where the headline said something to the effect of, "Congratulations on hitting #1, guys, but uhhhhhhh...". Which I imagine was probably the view of many of their fans at that time, yes :p.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh it definitely was. My college roommate was a diehard Aerosmith fan and her take on that one was pretty much "we all have bills to pay, I guess." Didn't it immediately get covered by a second rate country singer too? At the time, no one was pretending there was any artistic integrity involved here - it was a charts-friendly song written for a blockbuster film starring Steve Tyler's daughter and it did what it was meant to do.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, god, yeah, I do seem to remember some country artist covering that, now you mention it. Looking it up, it says Mark Chestnut did a cover. Man, there's a name I haven't heard in some time...

[(Anonymous)]

oh yeah totally. like, are you actually shocked that an AC ballad written by Diane Warren which was recorded as the "love theme" for a major blockbuster movie was kinda meh but also clearly #1 bait? you are? oh, I'm sorry.

(not YOU, anon, OP is more like it. OP, are you really shocked or just taking the piss out of us?)

[greghousesgf]

I just disliked the movie.

[rosehiptea]

It's one of my guilty pleasure movies but emphasis on the guilty - it's not a good film. And not a great song either, though to be fair I'm not a huge Aerosmith fan in the first place. I guess some people may get defensive about the song but I'm happy to say I don't know any.

[greghousesgf]

I like Aerosmith a lot but that's not one of their better songs IMHO. My favorite song of theirs is Pink, which I liked so much I used in a fanfic.

[(Anonymous)]

I really like the cello intro! The rest of the song is stupid and overwrought, but very much in the Big Movie Song genre.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, yeah, the cello at the start is pretty cool.

[(Anonymous)]

You're pretty bent out of shape about this song yourself, so maybe people are just trying to match you when they react to your complaints?

I don't care about the song, but you need to relax a little. Song lyrics usually aren't even entirely literal.

[(Anonymous)]

I was today years old when I found out this song was written by Diane Warren (who has written many pop hits for other artists) and was originally meant to be performed by a woman.

[(Anonymous)]

Just did a quick google on it OP.

Was written by Diane Warren:

"Warren found inspiration after hearing about an interview where actor James Brolin said that when his wife Barbra Streisand was away, he missed her even when he was sleeping.

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Warren said: "Some of the lyrics, like 'I can stay awake just to hear you breathing,' I'd be like, 'No, don't do that. Don't watch me breathe. I won't be able to sleep. Go do something else.' It's so funny, because part of me would never want someone to say that to me, but then again, I write it.""

[(Anonymous)]

It's a banger to sing along to, OP. Let us have our fun!

[(Anonymous)]

See, I'm cursed by this song for another reason. Whenever I hear it on the radio, I immediately think of an old friend's Loveless AMV from the ye old days of youtube (and Loveless as in the weird anime where virginity is represented by cat ears and there was an ambiguous relationship between a 12 year old and 20 year old).

[(Anonymous)]

I hate this song specifically because of the triangle part towards the end, which is square in the frequency range of noises that I can barely hear if they're brief and are also super annoying.

The rest of it would be unobjectionable if not that it was massively overplayed when it came out.

[meadowphoenix]

ballads are notoriously corny and unrealistic to taste, so I get hating it. i like it, but it's corniness is off the charts.