Amazing song brings back great memories of a girl who took me to her formal and that night we went for a walk the sky was full with stars she sung this song to me on her formal night 🌹
Every subsequent generation says the same thing. Imagine your mom going from listening to Al green to this. Or your grandparents listening to frank sinatra to this.
@@GreatIntellect13 yes exactly, in 30 years time somebody will comment on a song from 2022 and someone fishing for likes will comment ah back when music was good lol
Well, if it wasn't for that movie, there was no way in hell that the song would have gotten to #2 on the charts, considering the album had been out for a year and a half, almost 2 years by the time they did this performance and the song went Top 2. So if it wasnt for the movie, royalty checks would have stopped at some point, and this soundtrack enabled the song to become a massive cultural footnote for 1999 and brought in a bunch of soundtrack appearances, which for the songwriters is always a good thing. It's funny Conan says, " their brand new self titled", when in reality the album had been out for 16 months.
Oh... and what I really wanted to say... instead of using the word "disservice", I would use the word Albatross or maybe, use the term... Double-Edged Sword. Yeah, the song's success, or shall we say, an international cultural phenomenon brought them fame and fortune and recognition.. enabled them to keep recording and took them places they would have never seen or played otherwise. It gave them a band name recognition, that for as odd as the band name is, I'm sure a lot of people has heard the name, or will be able to know what band were talking about. In my country, Kiss Me was promoted in the last couple of months of 1999 and really peaked big, during the Spring of 2000. The music video, actually cropped the parts with Shes the One footage and inserted Dawson's Creek shots as it was used to promote the shows sound track. That's 3 years after the album was released and Sixpence's world popularity and international concerts, playback, and biggest shows and performances hadn't even happened yet. That's all brought up and happened only because of Shes all that. At the same time, the name became a synonym for ridicule, for bland, for lame, for shitty Christian band, for shitty Christian sellout, for "Sountrack Mostly" band, for pretty girl no substance, for Desperate to repeat success so well do another cover band, for 'the lead singer will obviously go solo' kind of band, for 'any band member is replaceable, but the pretty front woman' kind of band....amongst thousands of monikers that were totally unjustified and unjust for a band that was obviously so much more than just That "Kiss Me" band. So... it brought good things and very bad things. But the good were just awesome and I'm sure they still get royalty checks to this day because of that. And the bad were pretty shitty... but imo I'll take that #2 peak position in the Hot 100, than cool obscure Christian band, any day of the week. And I have to say, that #2 makes them look so much cooler in my eyes. They looked "cooler" in their appearance, music videos, all in all their aura was much cooler after the movie soundtrack thing happened... so I beg to differ only in the way that it was a doble edge sword as opposed to just being all bad.
Soundtracks help certain songs go big and provide big breaks for obscure artists. Lisa Loeb's big hit is another example. Being on a soundtrack got her an entire career.
@@alarmfannh it dont Matter which version is most known.. and actually, in fact, the La's version stalled on the Hot 100 in 1990, and Sixpence's version peaked within the Top 10 (dont exactly remember, but I'm sure it was #19 or #20 or around there)... so by your parameters, Sixpence None the Richer has the version that was more successful so that excludes them in by any manner, of being a One Hit Wonder. If you want to talk about being a 2-Hit Wonder, well there, then maybe you call build a very solid case for them (or against them, depending on how you see being a xx-Hit Wonder) but to say that they are a One Hit Wonder, I think I can pretty much be backed up by music scholars when I say that they dont qualify, based on their performance on the charts. Now, if you want to call them that, just because Kiss Me is the only song of theirs you know, well... that's a completely different thing.
