by Beyonce
"Listen" music video by Beyonce
I wasn't that much attached to the song at first, probably still very much in love with Irreplaceable. It is called irreplaceable for a reason, right? :P However, after watching the movie, this song makes more sense and gave the song its essence, its life...as it is with most of the songs from the movie. The lyrics started to make sense and the rest, as they say, is history.
There are a handful of songs I really enjoy from the movie but the one I really like the most (after Listen) are both versions of "One Night Only". Yes, both. Most people will like either one but I like them both. One will bring you to tears and another will lift your spirits. Total polar opposites and yet I enjoy them both. Yes, I'm that weird. So, sue me already!
Somehow, I enjoy listening to the music more in the movie than the album. The story behind the songs and the absorbing performances did help but I find that the longer versions found in the album dampened some of the songs. There were some parts of the movie that were horribly dull as the lengthy singing instead of talking really made me want to bang my head on the wall. It's not that I don't like musicals but too much of something can really make you sick and the part where Effie found out she was being replaced and the "singing" kept going and going, I really wanted to put a bullet in her head to shut her up. It was really that bad. Seriously.
Well, at least it is way, way better than Babel. While watching that movie, I really wanted to put a bullet in MY head to stop the agony! The movie is plain horrible. Give it a Razzie already! How the movie received SEVEN Oscar nominations and actually winning a Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture Drama is beyond my comprehension. Maybe that's why I don't watch both award shows anymore. Maybe that's why I don't rate movies by the number of nominations or awards they received anymore. Maybe I'm just being difficult. :P
Anyway, if you really want to hear this song in its entirety, you can always go to their website. You can listen to some of their songs in full and in high quality too. To listen to "Listen", look for the Deena Jones page. Go now. Go have a listen. ;)
"Listen" music video by Beyonce
ListenAnother incredibly contagious song by the ever gorgeous and talented Beyonce. This song is featured on both Beyonce's B'day and the Dreamgirls soundtrack albums, two albums with a good number of great songs in them.
To the song here in my heart
A melody I start but can't complete
Listen
To the sound from deep within
It's only beginning to find release
Oh the time has come
For my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own all cause you won't listen
Listen
I am alone at a crossroads
I'm not at home in my own home
And I've tried and tried to say what's on my mind
You should have known
Oh now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what you've made of me
I followed the voice you gave to me
But now I've gotta find my own
You should have listened
There is someone here inside
Someone I thought had died so long ago
Oh I'm screaming out
And my dreams will be heard
They will not be pushed aside or worse
Bent to your own all cause you won't listen
Listen
I am alone at a crossroads
I'm not at home in my own home
And I've tried and tried to say what's on my mind
You should have known
Oh now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what you've made of me
I followed the voice you gave to me
But now I've gotta find my own
I don't know where I belong
But I'll be moving on
If you don't
If you won't
Listen
To the song here in my heart
A melody I start but I will complete
Oh now I'm done believing you
You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what you've made of me
I followed the voice you think you gave to me
But now I've got to find my own
My own
I wasn't that much attached to the song at first, probably still very much in love with Irreplaceable. It is called irreplaceable for a reason, right? :P However, after watching the movie, this song makes more sense and gave the song its essence, its life...as it is with most of the songs from the movie. The lyrics started to make sense and the rest, as they say, is history.
There are a handful of songs I really enjoy from the movie but the one I really like the most (after Listen) are both versions of "One Night Only". Yes, both. Most people will like either one but I like them both. One will bring you to tears and another will lift your spirits. Total polar opposites and yet I enjoy them both. Yes, I'm that weird. So, sue me already!
Somehow, I enjoy listening to the music more in the movie than the album. The story behind the songs and the absorbing performances did help but I find that the longer versions found in the album dampened some of the songs. There were some parts of the movie that were horribly dull as the lengthy singing instead of talking really made me want to bang my head on the wall. It's not that I don't like musicals but too much of something can really make you sick and the part where Effie found out she was being replaced and the "singing" kept going and going, I really wanted to put a bullet in her head to shut her up. It was really that bad. Seriously.
Well, at least it is way, way better than Babel. While watching that movie, I really wanted to put a bullet in MY head to stop the agony! The movie is plain horrible. Give it a Razzie already! How the movie received SEVEN Oscar nominations and actually winning a Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture Drama is beyond my comprehension. Maybe that's why I don't watch both award shows anymore. Maybe that's why I don't rate movies by the number of nominations or awards they received anymore. Maybe I'm just being difficult. :P
Anyway, if you really want to hear this song in its entirety, you can always go to their website. You can listen to some of their songs in full and in high quality too. To listen to "Listen", look for the Deena Jones page. Go now. Go have a listen. ;)
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hey! listen,
ReplyDeleteusually movies with many nominations/wins are really boring ones...(in my book anyway!), i don't think u are being difficult ;)
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