Some songs hit you right where you need to feel it.
As humans, we experience a wide range of emotions. Some easy, some complicated. Throughout time we’ve turned to various forms of art to help us communicate and release the things we feel. The beauty of music is that it lets us create and experience those emotions on every level. Truly, there’s a song for every situation. Just as there are songs for utter joy and happiness, there are those for deep sorrow and loss.
Take Prince’s classic hit “Nothing Compares 2 U”.
This emotional and gutsy tune takes a deep-dive right into the essence of love gained and love taken away.
Although Prince originally wrote and composed the song, it was made famous by singer Sinead O’Connor. Upon the single’s release, the beauty of her vocal crooning weaved intimately with the painful loss illustrated by the lyrics. It was an instant hit. It’s one of those songs that resonates effortlessly on some level with just about everyone. The song contains a perfectly pitched moment of loneliness and longing. It hits you in the feels.
The melancholy lyrics put it all into perspective.
The lament presented in the track is hauntingly accurate. A universal feeling. Something we can all attach to at one point or another. Carrying on after losing love is a difficult landscape to navigate, something Prince and Sinead both delivered with heartbreaking precision and humanity.
Others have gone on to capture the essence of this song, some nailing it quite poignantly.
Take this version delivered gracefully by the late rock legend Chris Cornell, for instance.
His expression of this aching ballad is the perfect interpretation.
Cornell delivers this acoustic rendition with the perfect amount of quiet desperation – allowing you to really feel it.
“It’s been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away”
His characteristic vocals fit the essence of the song perfectly.
“Since you been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues
‘Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you”
And with almost ninety million views and over five hundred thousand likes, the internet cannot get enough of this stunningly intimate cover.
Fans, far and wide, have flocked to the comment section, leaving notes of their undying appreciation for the iconic rockstar.
“Still can’t believe he’s gone, this cover is so perfect it can’t be real. Beautifully covered and so pure.”
This last comment puts it all into perfect perspective.
“Prince wrote a classic, Sinéad O’Connor made it popular and Chris Cornell gave it here complete justice!”
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Sources: YouTube/SiriusXM, Wikipedia
