All I ever needed to know about love, I learned form the Goo Goo Dolls. This band with songs such as “Iris”, “Slide”, and “Black Balloon” speak of the longing that comes with love lost for example in the song “Black Balloon” The singer talks about the fact that “A thousand other boys could never reach you, how could I have been the one.” In “Iris” The speaker talks about the fact that regardless of what the world thinks, his love will continue, “you can’t fight the tears that ain’t coming, but I know you can feel me some how… I don’t want the world to see me cause I don’t think that they’d understand.” In the song “Slide” they speak more of the sexual side of love “I wanna wake up where you are.” Music as a whole has always appealed to the senses and the emotions form the ancient but still popular African drum rhythms to the much more complicated rhythms of the Goo Goo Dolls music has changed but it still revolves around the same basic connotation emotions such as love. While the context of what love is has changed over the years the same basic elements have stayed the same, longing, desire, hope, despair, are all constant throughout the years of songs. What was taboo a few years ago is now almost normal; 15 years ago there were few songs about sex now almost every song contains a reference to it, and if not directly to it than something that is a figurative reference to sex.
The Essay on On The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock
On The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T. S. Eliot reveals the thoughts and feelings of the poems subject, Prufrock, in a way that Prufrock could not have articulated himself, since it is the poems objective to illustrate Prufrocks insecurity. By not commenting directly and allowing the reader to draw conclusions from clues given in dramatic monologue, Eliot ...
The Goo Goo Dolls in their song “Slide” defiantly refer to sex ” I wanna wakeup where you are, I won’t say anything at all… .” however later in their song that also advocate marriage “May do you wanna get married?” it is this that is unusual in the mainstream pop / rock persuasion, while most artists are talking about one night stands the Goo Goo Dolls speak about love and commitment. The Goo Goo Dolls in their song “Iris” speak about a taboo love “I don’t want the world to see me, cause I don’t think that they’d understand… .” the even talk about the Hollywood spin on romance “when everything feels like the movies, yeah you bleed just to know your alive.” This is very important in the world today as we as a society often look to people who have no morals at all for moral guidance and people who have no idea what love is (meaning they misunderstand love) for marriage counseling or to model our relationships after.
In conclusion I would like to say don’t let the pop rhythm fool you the lyrics are about something truly profound, the Goo Goo Dolls seem to know what they are talking about. In a world that can seem so out of touch with what should be happening they appear like a clear voice of guidance, aided by the guitar ballads and drum solos they speak clearly, love is what the world needs now more than ever.
