"New Mistake" by Jellyfish
"Love is blind, deaf and dumb, but nevermind."
Oh Jellyfish, Jellyfish,
How blind the world is for overlooking ya'll. You should've been playin' stadiums! I don't know how you managed to write one of the best pop songs of all time and still be almost completely overlooked and underrated. I still dream to myself of a Jellyfish reunion. (Please??) "New Mistake" is filled with hooks and subtle orchestration. A big thumpy bass line glides the track along while Freddie Mercury-eqsue vocals soar through the masterpiece and grace such a great song.
How dumb I feel for trying over and over again to share the pinnacle of 90's pop, your second and last album, Spilt Milk, with all my friends by playing them "New Mistake" only to be laughed at. "You like this?? This is cheesy." No it's not, it's brilliant! Just listen to it; the linear storyline, the climax, the chorus, the hooks, the cymbal hits -- everything -- c'mon! How can you not love that clever and ironic line at the climax of the song: "The ending turned tragic when many years later the baby had grown up and married a pop singer / I guess it was her turn to make her first mistake" and then the simply beautiful fade-out of the overlapping vocal harmonies?! Are you deaf?? It gives me chills every time I listen to it! "I don't understand. Why?" ...but! *sigh* ...nevermind.
I love you, Jellyfish. I won't give up on you.
Oh Jellyfish, Jellyfish,
How blind the world is for overlooking ya'll. You should've been playin' stadiums! I don't know how you managed to write one of the best pop songs of all time and still be almost completely overlooked and underrated. I still dream to myself of a Jellyfish reunion. (Please??) "New Mistake" is filled with hooks and subtle orchestration. A big thumpy bass line glides the track along while Freddie Mercury-eqsue vocals soar through the masterpiece and grace such a great song.
How dumb I feel for trying over and over again to share the pinnacle of 90's pop, your second and last album, Spilt Milk, with all my friends by playing them "New Mistake" only to be laughed at. "You like this?? This is cheesy." No it's not, it's brilliant! Just listen to it; the linear storyline, the climax, the chorus, the hooks, the cymbal hits -- everything -- c'mon! How can you not love that clever and ironic line at the climax of the song: "The ending turned tragic when many years later the baby had grown up and married a pop singer / I guess it was her turn to make her first mistake" and then the simply beautiful fade-out of the overlapping vocal harmonies?! Are you deaf?? It gives me chills every time I listen to it! "I don't understand. Why?" ...but! *sigh* ...nevermind.
I love you, Jellyfish. I won't give up on you.
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