UNDER THE BRIDGE

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS

SONGWRITERS: ANTHONY KIEDIS; CHAD SMITH; FLEA & JOHN FRUSCIANTE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: BLOOD SUGAR SEX MAGIK

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1992

 

         "Under the Bridge" is a song by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. It is the eleventh track on the group's fifth studio album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, and was released as its second single on March 10, 1992. Vocalist Anthony Kiedis wrote the lyrics to express feelings of loneliness and despondency, and to reflect on narcotics and their impact on his life. Kiedis was driving home from rehearsals when Blood Sugar Sex Magik was in pre-production and said he sang the lyrics to himself. Kiedis initially did not feel that "Under the Bridge" would fit into the Chili Peppers' repertoire, and was reluctant to show it to his bandmates until producer Rick Rubin implored him to do so. The rest of the band was receptive to the lyrics and wrote the music.

      The song became a critical and commercial success, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 behind "Jump" by Kris Kross, and later receiving a platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America. To date, "Under the Bridge" is the band's highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100. The single's success was widened with the release of its accompanying video, which was frequently played on music television channels. It won the "Viewer's Choice Award" and "Breakthrough Video" at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards.

      "Under the Bridge" helped the Red Hot Chili Peppers enter the mainstream. David Fricke of Rolling Stone said that the song "unexpectedly drop-kicked the band into the Top 10", while Philip Booth of The Tampa Tribune commented that it was a "pretty, undulating, [and] by-now omnipresent single." The song has become an inspiration to other artists, and remains a seminal component of the alternative rock movement of the early and mid-1990s.

Sometimes I feel like

I don't have a partner

Sometimes I feel like

My only friend

Is the city I live in

The city of angels

Lonely as I am

Together we cry

 

I drive on her streets, 'cause

She's my companion

I walk through her hills, 'cause

She knows who I am

She sees my good deeds and

She kisses me windy

And I never worry

Now that is a lie

 

I don't ever wanna feel

Like I did that day

But take me to the place I love

Take me all the way

I don't ever wanna feel

Like I did that day

But take me to the place I love

Take me all the way

 

It's hard to believe that

There's nobody out there

It's hard to believe

That I'm all alone

At least I have her love

The city, she loves me

Lonely as I am

Together we cry

 

I don't ever wanna feel

Like I did that day

But take me to the place I love

Take me all the way

I don't ever wanna feel

Like I did that day

But take me to the place I love

Take me all the way

 

(Under the bridge downtown)

Is where I drew some blood

(Under the bridge downtown)

I could not get enough

(Under the bridge downtown)

Forgot about my love

(Under the bridge downtown)

I gave my life away

 

Yeah, yeah

Oh, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah

Oh, no, I said oh, yeah, yeah

Here I stay. 

WHITE FLAG

DIDO

SONGWRITERS: DIDO ARMSTRONG; RICK NOWELS & ROLLO ARMSTRONG

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LIFE FOR RENT

LABEL: ARISTA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2003

 

      Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born 25 December 1971), known professionally as Dido(/ˈdaɪdoʊ/DY-doh), is an English singer and songwriter. She attained international success with her debut álbum No Angel(1999). Hit singles from the album include "Here with Me" and "Thank You". It sold over 21 million copies worldwide, and won her several awards, including two Brit Awards: Best British Female and Best British Album, and the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act. The first verse of "Thank You" is sampled in "Stan", a collaboration with American rapper Eminem. Her next album, Life for Rent(2003), continued her success with the hit singles "White Flag" and "Life for Rent". In 2004, Dido performed with other British and Irish artists in the Band Aid 20 version of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".

        Dido's first two albums are among the best-selling albums in UK chart history, and both are in the top 10 best-selling albums of the 2000s in the UK. Her third studio album, Safe Trip Home(2008), received critical acclaim but failed to duplicate the commercial success of her previous efforts. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the song "If I Rise". Dido was ranked No. 98 on the Billboard chart of the top Billboard 200 artists of the 2000s (2000–2009) based on the success of her albums in the first decade of the 21st century.

      Dido made a comeback in 2013, releasing her fourth studio álbum Girl Who Got Away, which reached the top 5 in the UK. Having taken time out of the music industry to raise her son, she reappeared on stage at the 2013 Reading and Leeds festival where she reunited with Eminem. Dido released her fifth studio album, Still on My Mind, on 8 March 2019 and embarked on her first tour in 15 years in support of the new album.

         In May 2019, Dido received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors.

     "White Flag" is a song by English singer-songwriter Dido, released as the lead single from her second studio album. Life for Rent. The song was first released to US radio on 7 July 2003 and was issued in the United Kingdom as a physical single on 1 September 2003. The song performed well on record charts around the world, peaking at number one in Australia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Portugal. In Dido's native UK, it reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, and in the United States, it climbed to number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, features actor David Boreanaz as Dido's love interest.

        "White Flag" was nominated for the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 46th Grammy Awards but lost to Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful". It won the Best British Single at the 2004 Brit Awards. The song has featured in several TV series including Smallville, The Inbetweeners, Medium, The Sopranos, Tru Calling, Cold Case, Winners & Losers, as well as in the films Perfect Stranger, Mommy and Bad Education. Carly Rae Jepsen performed a cover version of the song on Canadian Idol. "White Flag" ranked at number 317 on Blender's list "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born"

I know you think that

I shouldn't still love you, or tell you that

But if I didn't say it, well, I'd still have felt it

Where's the sense in that?

 

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder

Or return to where we were

 

But I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

 

I know I left too much mess and destruction

To come back again

And I caused nothing but trouble

I understand if you can't talk to me again

And if you live by the rules of it's over

Then I'm sure that that makes sense

 

But I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

 

And when we meet

Which I'm sure we will

All that was there

Will be there still

I'll let it pass

And hold my tongue

And you will think

That I've moved on

 

I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

 

I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

 

I will go down with this ship

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be.

TORN

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA

SONGWRITERS: ANNE PREVEN; PHIL THORNALLEY & SCOTT CUTLER

COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA

ALBUM: LEFT OF THE MIDDLE

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1997

 

        Natalie Jane Imbruglia(/ɪmˈbruːliə/im-BROO-lee-ə, Italian:[imˈbruʎʎa]; born 4 February 1975) is an Australian-British singer-songwriter and actress. In the early 1990s, she played Beth Brennan in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. Three years after leaving the programme, she began a singing career with her chart-topping cover of Ednaswap's song "Torn". Her subsequent album, Left of the Middle(1997), sold 7 million copies worldwide. Imbruglia's five subsequent albums have combined sales of 3 million copies worldwide, and her accolades include eight ARIA Awards, two Brit Awards, one Billboard Music Award, and three Grammy nominations.

     Imbruglia has appeared in several films, including the 2003 release Johnny English and the 2009 Australian indie film Closed for Winter. She has modelled for several brands, such as L'Oreal, Gap, and Kailis.

       Amongst other philanthropic work, Imbruglia served as a longtime spokesperson for Virgin Unite and campaigns to raise awareness of obstetric fistula.

       On 16 June 2021, Imbruglia announced on her oficial Twitter page that her new single "Build It Better" would be released on 18 June 2021. It serves as the first single from her forthcoming sixth studio album Firebird, which is scheduled to be released on 24 September 2021.

          Left of the Middle is the debut studio album by Australian singer Natalie Imbruglia, released on 24 November 1997 by RCA Records. It is a pop rock and alternative pop album, with elements of trip hop and post-grunge. Spurred by the success of lead single "Torn", the album reached number one in Imbruglia's home country and top 10 in both the UK and US. The album went on to secure Imbruglia na ARIA for Best Pop Release and three Grammy nominations, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the single "Torn", and Best New Artist.

          The album sold over 7 million copies worldwide by 2002, making it the best-selling debut album by a female Australian singer. The single "Identify", which Imbruglia recorded for the soundtrack of the 1999 film Stigmata, only appears on the Taiwanese edition of the album, as well as on the compilation album, Glorious: The Singles 97–07.

I thought I saw a man brought to life

He was warm, he came around like he was dignified

He showed me what it was to cry

Well, you couldn't be that man I adored

You don't seem to know, or seem to care what your heart is for

But I don't know him anymore

 

There's nothin' where he used to lie

The conversation has run dry

That's what's going on

Nothing's fine, I'm torn

 

I'm all out of faith

This is how I feel

I'm cold and I am shamed

Lying naked on the floor

Illusion never changed

Into something real

I'm wide awake and I can see

The perfect sky is torn

You're a little late

I'm already torn

 

So I guess the fortune teller's right

Should've seen just what was there and not some holy light

But you crawled beneath my veins and now

 

I don't care, I had no luck

I don't miss it all that much

There's just so many things

That I can touch, I'm torn

 

I'm all out of faith

This is how I feel

I'm cold and I am shamed

Lying naked on the floor

Illusion never changed

Into something real

I'm wide awake and I can see

The perfect sky is torn

You're a little late

I'm already torn

Torn

 

There's nothing where he used to lie

My inspiration has run dry

And that's what's going on

Nothing's right, I'm torn

 

I'm all out of faith

This is how I feel

I'm cold and I am shamed

Lying naked on the floor

Illusion never changed

Into something real

I'm wide awake and I can see

The perfect sky is torn

 

I'm all out of faith

This is how I feel

I'm cold and I'm ashamed

Bound and broken on the floor

You're a little late

I'm already torn

Torn

Oh!

IRONIC

ALANIS MORISSETTE

SONGWRITERS: ALANIS MORISSETTE & GLEN BALLARD

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: JAGGED LITTLE PILL

LABEL: MAVERICK RECORDS

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1996

 

         Alanis Nadine Morissette (/əˈlɑːnɪsˌmɒrɪˈsɛt/ə-LAH-niss MORR-ih-SET; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with two mildly successful dance-pop albums. Afterward, as part of a recording deal, she moved to Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. In 1995, she released Jagged Little Pill, a more rock-oriented album which sold more than 33 million copies globally and is her most critically acclaimed work to date. This was made into a rock musical of the same name in 2017, which earned 15 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. Her more experimental follow-up album, electronic-infused Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, was released in 1998.

    Morissette assumed creative control and producing duties for her subsequent studio albums, including Under Rug Swept(2002), So-Called Chaos(2004), Flavors of Entanglement(2008), and Havoc and Bright Lights(2012). Her ninth album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road, was released in 2020. Morissette has sold more than 75 million records worldwide and has been dubbed the "Queen of Alt-Rock Angst" by Rolling Stone.

      "Ironic" is a song by Canadian singer Alanis Morissette. It was released in February 1996 as the third single from her third studio album, Jagged Little Pill(1995). It was written by Morissette and Glen Ballard, and was produced by him. "Ironic" is a song written in the key of B major, and includes a moderate tempo of eighty-five beats per minute. The lyrics present several situations that are described as "ironic"; this has led to debate as to whether any of these actually match the accepted meaning of irony.

          For six weeks, the track topped the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart. It also reached the top five in Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. In the United States, the song reached number four on April 13, 1996, and since then it has been her highest-charting single on the Billboard Hot 100. "Ironic" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA). The song won the Juno Award for Single of the Year, and received two Grammy Award nominations in 1997, for Record of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video. French diretor Stéphane Sednaoui filmed the music video. In it, Morissette drives through a winter landscape, and she plays multiple roles as her passengers. MTV nominated the music video for six MTV Video Music Awards in 1996, winning three of them. The music video was listed on VH1's "Greatest Music Videos" list and was parodied by DBA Flip, Allison Rheaume, Rusty and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

          In September 2001, following the September 11 attacks, "Ironic" was listed inappropriate due to its lyrics by American mass media company Clear Channel Communications. The song was included on the set list of Morissette's Jagged Little Pill World Tour (1995), and her compilation albums MTV Unplugged(1999), The Collection(2005), among others. The song was covered by Mexican duet Jesse & Joy for their album Esta Es Mi Vida Sesiones(2007), and by American band Four Year Strong for their cover album Explains It All(2009). 

An old man turned ninety-eight

He won the lottery and died the next day

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay

It's a death row pardon two minutes too late

Isn't it ironic, don't you think?

 

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

And who would've thought, it figures

 

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly

He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye

He waited his whole damn life to take that flight

And as the plane crashed down he thought

Well, isn't this nice

And isn't it ironic, don't you think?

 

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

And who would've thought, it figures

 

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

When you think everything's okay and everything's going right

And life has a funny way of helping you out when

You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up in your face

 

A traffic jam when you're already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It's meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn't it ironic, don't you think?

A little too ironic, and, yeah, I really do think

 

It's like rain on your wedding day

It's a free ride when you've already paid

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

And who would've thought, It figures

 

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

And life has a funny, funny way of helping you out

Helping you out.