Music for people who are unable to express themselves emotionally
There’s bad music – and there is Savage Garden. In fact my working knowledge of the “Australian pop duo” as Wikipedia charitably calls them – instead of say, “The Australian Musical Butchers” – is mercifully limited to this one song.
But oh! What a song “Truly Madly Deeply” is! Seemingly ripping its name of the 1990 film of the same name, its a deep exploration of a topic that has baffled and captivated mankind for millennia – just how mawkish, feeble and limp can a song be? And in the form of “Truly Madly Deeply”, we finally have the answer!
Sounding like it was written by Amazon’s self-published Romance fiction section, the whole song is a deep, deep dive into the sort of sentimentality that would be deemed too weak for a greetings card. The chorus sums up the territory we’re dealing with:
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me
I’m really into you baby – not only do I want to “stand on a mountain” with you – but I’ll “bathe in the sea” with you (why not just swim in the sea?). The rest of the song continues on the same lines – I could torture you with more of the lyrics, but I’m a nice guy….oh f**k it, here we go:
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me
That’s right – its the same chorus 4 frickin’ times in the same song. STOP STOP STOP!!! Oh for a time machine to go back to 1997 and stop this song ever being made!
Worst Moment: The guy’s voice – he sounds like he’s trying to channel the spirit of Charles and Eddie
