I need a song recommendation for a video project I have in mind for a friend who is a fan of a particular fandom. Unfortunately, I can’t think of any of my mp3s that really fit the bill…
These are my requirements:
the singer must be female
the song should be about having just realized that her feeling for someone are less platonic than she thought. This is tricky because there are so many more songs written from the pov of being firmly in love or totally over that guy.
since my tastes run to indie and obscure, the less poppy a song the better. People like Bat for Lashes, Juliette And The Licks, or Bettie Serveert, yay. People like Britney Spears, Ke$ha, or Rihanna, boo*.
the song should be from the past decade.
Thanks
don’t get me wrong, there are Britney Spears and Ke$ha songs I like, but I’m looking for a song that fewer people would use for a similar project
That’s the first thing that popped into my mind, too.
There’s Save the Best for Last by Vanessa Williams, but it’s the reverse – the girl has known all along she’s in love with the guy, and he’s just had the epiphany.
Neither indy, nor from the last decade. So … yeah. LOL Big help I am.
This song would take a lot of tracking down, as it seems to be only on a Waterbug (recording company) sampler from 1998 or so, but it seems to hit the notes you’re looking for. It has a reflective, acoustic, singer-songwritery sound.
You were not what I expected you would be
There in all the fire and fury of my dreams
You never swept me off my feet, You didn’t carry me away
You couldn’t save me from myself, you can’t make everything okay
This is harder than it seems. I immediately thought of Bonnie Raitt’s “Something to Talk About” myself, but then I drew a blank.
I can think of MANY songs in which a MALE singer says he’s fallen in love with someone he’d once thought of as just a friend or a woman he’d once thought of as just a little girl. Songs like REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” are commonplace.
But perhaps that’s a reflection of the age-old “nice guy” quandary. The world is filled with “nice guys” who are “just friends” with women they’re crazy about. Many of those guys harbor the silly fantasy that these women will suddenly come to their senses and fall in love with the nice guys who’ve been right before their eyes all along.
But that VERY rarely happens, and very few women WANT it to happen. Hence, men will write songs about falling in love with their “friends” a lot more often than women will.
Because You see, it’s all about this cooze who’s a regular fuck machine, I’m talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it’s like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the ‘Great Escape’, he’s digging tunnels. Now, she’s gettin’ the serious dick action and she’s feeling something she ain’t felt since forever. It hurts her. It shouldn’t hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, ‘Like a Virgin’.
So then she knows, he’s more than a buddy, he’s special.
Bonnie Raitt has lyrics similar to what I’m looking for, but it has been used in a lot of video montages and so forth already.
It’s much more common for male singers to tackle the subject, so I knew this would be hard. It has to be a female singer for the video to make sense, though.
Women fall for friends all the time. It’s just more likely to be shown in a tv show arc about it (BTVS Willow–>Zander, About a Girl Amy–> Jason, Dawson’s Creek Joey –>Dawson, Instant Star Jude –> Tommy, Grey’s Anatomy Izzy –> George etc etc…and of course the fandom this video will be for, Haven) than a song.
I might be able to work with “Doorway” by IO Echo but I’m hoping for something more positive about the singer’s feelings.
It fits your first two requirements perfectly. Not sure if it’s from the past decade, though. It’s either from the late 90s or early 2000s. And it’s country/pop, which may rule it out anyway.
Okay okay okay, technically it’s all sung by Hyadain, aka Kenichi Maeyamada, with the female parts being software used to make his voice feminine (hence the “autotune” noise on the female parts at times). But the way it’s written and executed is more important than the technical details here.
Sorry about the excessive quoting. Had been on my game, here’s the bit I would have quoted:
Some love comes like a wildfire moving fast
Some loves level everything they pass
But sometimes love burns slow
Not much on flame, there’s not so much show
When you finally find that kind of steady glow
You’d best think twice before you let it go
There is something that I see
In the way you look at me
There’s a smile, there’s a truth in your eyes
What an unexpected way, on this unexpected day
Could it be this is where I belong?
It is you I have loved all along
There’s no more mystery
It is finally clear to me
You’re the home my heart has searched for so long
It is you I have loved all along
And it’s from 2003, so it even fits the ‘last decade’ requirement.
Songs that came to mind were Thin Line by Jurassic 5 and Nelly Furtado (but not in past 10 years and has a male rapping), or Eryka Badu’s Next Lifetime, but that’s probably a bit old too. Pussycat Dolls Don’t Cha is probably too poppy for your requirements. So I guess thanks for playing!
