Taking Las Vegas Home may have been about a lover or an ex lover who’s struggling to grasp the possibilities of his or her lover finding someone better than him or her, someone to have something “more” with, someone who’s gonna love their lover better than they ever did…
They don’t know if it’s possible since their love for the person was or is or seems so unrivaled… Trying hard, still, they can’t see why either of them should look elsewhere for what they already had…
Didn’t I take you to… higher places, you can’t reach without me?
But what if we took a darker approach to the situation, what if the heartbreaker is so twisted that they say such words not out of their great undying love for the person but as an attempt to manipulate their heartbroken lover into putting up with the toxic relationship… Trying to make them believe that they can’t get anything better than what they’re giving them… No one’s ever gonna love you more than I do… the words go… the song knows… the song goes…
It’s looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just, taken apart
We’re reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
Once reworked by Cee Lo Green for his 3rd studio album conveniently titled Lady Killer, “No One’s Gonna Love You” was originally done by The Band Of Horses for their second album Cease To Begin.
Yes, before Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” or Rihanna’s “We Found Love” video, we had the “No One’s Gonna Love You” video accompanying Cee Lo Green’s rendition of the song. In a nutshell, all three videos are basically one and the same thing. Assuming you’ve seen at least one of the three, I don’t need to focus on the actual happenings of the video but the song itself…
Unfortunately most of us at some point in our lives find ourselves in a relationship where we have to deal with a heart that wasn’t broken by us… As we can all mull about the challenges that come with such a relationship, let’s rather attempt to delve deep into the mind of the person who perhaps is responsible for breaking the heart.
Getting into your first ever serious relationship, you often hope it will last forever, as you invest your all into the love, disappointment teaches you otherwise…
But someone
They could’ve warned you
When things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing’s tumbling down
After the first relationship, you go into the next relationship, aware of the disappointment that may follow, making you somewhat hold back a bit of yourself… In some cases, most of yourself… You become, the everliving ghost of what once was… No more bright eyes and a bushy tail…
No one’s gonna love you more than I do
Aware of what he/she has done, the heartbreaker feels that the ex lover is less likely to walk into another relationship as fearlessly and as wholly as they did with them… That no one, will ever get to see how much of a lover they once were, unbruised, uncurled… unbetrayed…
Or so they think
October 30th, 2015 at 6:43 pm
Great man…I agree with the darker take of all the songs. You nailed it. Love.
Just have to mention my favorite version of Love the Way You Lie…is Skylar Grey’s. ..prob a minority in this but I feel that one more, but she wrote it, lol, don’t have to tell you I know. Not to diss Eminem or Rihanna at all..just my favorite
Regina
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October 30th, 2015 at 7:41 pm
Haha, I love Skylar Grey’s version more as
well… I just love Skylar… I love her vocals
and of course she’s an awesome songwriter,
I even enjoyed her in”I Need A
Doctor” (Which reminds me, I need to listen
to that song, it’s been too long)… I first
started paying attention to her when I heard
“Invisible” and I’ve loved her ever since…
Did I mention that I love Skylar Grey? Haha,
thanks for reminding me of her Regina 🙂
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October 31st, 2015 at 2:48 am
I am not familar with any of the songs you mentioned but your take on the song No One’s Gonna Love you is insightful and I agree 🙂
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October 31st, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Haha! Is it okay if I call you Shine? Well I’m glad you agree with the post, relationships are a very broad and complex subject… but I wanna know about music that you’re actually familiar with… which genres do you prefer?… artists?
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October 31st, 2015 at 1:13 pm
You are right and can definitely call me Shine. I love 80’s music –the New Wave as it reminds me of my childhood. I also love the 60’s classic…I think I am an old soul. I also love sone of our music they are called OPM -Original Pilipino Music. 🙂
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October 31st, 2015 at 1:25 pm
hmmm… I see, Nostalgia is your weakness, I’m definitely gonna use that, I love old music too… haha, it doesn’t come as a surprise because I listen to almost everything… are there any another Philipino genres the world doesn’t really know about you’d like to share with me?
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October 31st, 2015 at 7:02 am
Reblogged this on Lisa Mari Egra blogg.
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October 31st, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Thank you so much for the reblog Lisa!
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October 31st, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Min glede😊
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October 31st, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Very interesting. Relationships. Need ‘Em, Hate ‘Em.
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October 31st, 2015 at 10:15 pm
They make us all losers
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October 31st, 2015 at 10:26 pm
I know! Right? You have high hopes for someone… And then splat! The let down. What I dislike the most is when they lie or misrepresent themselves. Why even do that in the first place?
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November 2nd, 2015 at 9:12 am
Can I call you Fit? Selfish intentions, nothing else… Lots of crook take advantage of good people, it’s sad
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November 2nd, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Yes, you can call me Fit. 😊
You’re right. Totally selfish intentions. He was only thinking about himself and not me at all. And yeah, there’s a lot of people out there who take advantage of good-hearted people, which really is pretty cruel, if you think about it. The trick is to wring every coin first so you’re not taken advantage of.
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November 2nd, 2015 at 12:42 pm
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