Remarks:
A Moby song I have played to death. It never made the pop chart in his native US, but in Britain it went to #5 in 2000, his biggest British hit. He thinks the song is average:
“I thought it sounded mushy, I thought my vocals sounded really weak. I couldn’t imagine anyone else wanting to listen to it.”
But then it appeared in a Leonardo DiCaprio film, “The Beach” (2000), where it was used to effect.
The video above is not from “The Beach”, which takes place on a tropical island. Instead it shows a fast-motion video of Times Square in June 2008, on the decidedly temperate island of Manhattan. It already looks dated to me, back in time.
Moby himself made two videos for this song, a creepy video with a close-up of an eye, made for Europe, and a dreamlike video where he is in a driverless car, before driverless cars were a thing.
See also:
- songs, the 2000s
- Videos shot in Times Square:
- 1971: Isaac Hayes: Theme From Shaft
- 1982: Irene Cara: Fame
- Times Square through time
- The Ford – of which there are many in the video
Lyrics:
In my dreams I’m dying all the time,
Then I wake it’s kaleidoscopic mind
I never meant to hurt you,
I never meant to lie
So this is goodbye,
This is goodbye
Tell the truth, You’ve never wanted me
Tell me
In my dreams I’m jealous all the time,
When I wake I’m going out of my mind
Going out of my mind
Source: mainly Songfacts.
I love this song. I remember it being played all over the place (I’m British – living in England at the time it came out). It’s a perfect melancholy mix of Chopin, hip hop and ambient. It’s brilliant.
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I love this song. I used to play the heck out of it back in its day. I still get an urge to hear it these days. Actually I liked the whole album it’s from. I think it was one of his best.
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You need to hear “One of these Mornings” remix he did. When that played in the Miami Vice movie. ……. Wow. Almost made that movie seem good.
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I have this on my personal playlist
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I also. like Natural Blues and Extreme Ways and Southside
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Thanks for posting this! I love this song.
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