This song was originally written for the film ‘Magnolia’ (which incidentally was my mother’s favourite colour!) in 1999 by Aimee Man and I first heard it in an episode of ‘Cold Case’ about a year ago. Unfortunately this masterpiece was beaten to the 1999 Academy Award for best song by ‘You’ll Be In My Heart’ from Disney’s Tarzan written by Phil Collins, which is a total travesty – but hey there’s no accounting for taste is there? Rumour has it that Aimee man has allegedly introduced this number in live performances by saying that it is ‘The Song that lost an Oscar to Phil Collins and his cartoon monkey love song!’ which for me sums up the fact that there is NO JUSTICE in this world, but at least she can see the funny side and appears to be only mildly bitter.
I was trying to explain what this song was about to a friend and why I liked it so much in answer to her question ‘What Kind of songs do you like?’ and as I tried to explain that it was a great song and had such an important sentiment, my friend said that it sounded ‘very depressing’ to which I added that actually I thought it was a song of hope. The line ‘Save Me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone’ sounds like an acknowledgement of the problem and as we all know once you have the problem you are halfway to the solution.
You will need to decide for yourself however.
Now listen to the song….
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