One-Hit-Wonder
This is Pop
You know how irritating it is when you can’t think of the name of a song that is stuck in your head? This happens less frequently now that Google exists, but you still have to know a little bit of information about a song, like lyrics or the artist, in order for Google to help.
The other day I was watching This is Pop on Netflix and randomly thought about a song that I used to like. I can picture where I was and what I was doing one of the times I heard the song on the radio, but I couldn’t think of what the lyrics were.
One-Hit-Wonder
I was also quite sure that it was a one-hit-wonder because I didn’t know who the artist was either. I stopped This is Pop and tried to search for the song on Spotify by searching One-Hit-Wonders from 2010 (the year I was pretty certain the song was on the radio).
No luck.
River
The only things I could “remember” about the song is how it sounded and that there might have been a river in it. I also felt like it was a song I normally wouldn’t like. I felt like I could remember angels being in the lyrics. I even googled “songs about rivers”. Nada.
I really sat and tried to figure out the song for a while. My husband asked what I was doing because it appeared I was just sitting on the couch looking at nothing while Netflix was paused. He was irritated that I wasn’t actually watching the TV because he had been relegated to the TV in the bedroom to watch his AEW wrestling.
Give Up
I told him my predicament and he was of no help. Eventually, I decided that I should give up trying to figure out the song for now. It might come to me within a few days. And if it did, I guessed that it probably wouldn’t be as good of a song as I remembered.
Bezos
I woke up a few days later and sat up in bed to try and stay awake. Once I was awake, and I knew my husband was awake, I decided I was going to play “Bezos 1” from Bo Burnham’s Inside (if you haven’t watched it, you must!). I was going to suggest that my husband, Jeff, play that song for his alarm clock.
Ghost
Well, on my Spotify home screen, it had some suggested playlists and One-Hit-Wonders from the 2010s was there. I clicked into it and the first song on the list was Ghost by Ella Handerson. I had a feeling.
I played the song and I knew instantly that it was the song I had been trying to figure out the other day.
I said “holy shit…” and Jeff asked what was up. I told him I found the song from the other day and played some of the song louder for him to prove that some of my lyric assumptions were kind of right.
“I keep going to the river to pray’
Cause I need something that can wash out the pain
And at most I’m sleeping all these demons away
But your ghost, the ghost of you
It keeps me awake”
I Was Right
So, I was right about a river being involved. And ghosts could be angels. And demons are the opposite of angels. It all made sense!
I was also correct that it was a song I wouldn’t normally like, due to it talking about praying and such. I am not religious by any means, so I usually don’t care for songs of that kind.
Was the song as good as I remembered?
No, but it was good enough for me to add to my playlist. Plus, I feel better now that I figured out the “mystery”
