#Blinded by the light meaning movie#

The music and lyrics work in perfect harmony to communicate the excitement of and perfection of realizing that youвЂ™re in love and the soothing calm that comes with being loved.Д«linding Lights is one of the best pop songs I have heard in years.Blinded Not later than The Amusing lyrics вЂ“ Tune. The song ends perfectly as does the marriage of lyrics and music. Thus the song ends with a break, everything that was pulsating with kinetic energy is suddenly flattened out, stretched out, relaxing to a lovely, slow fade. He needs this woman as she is the only one who can slow the beat of his heart, his rapid pulse. The drum machine is a heartbeat, rushing faster than normal as his excitement and conviction builds. HeвЂ™s made up his mind and the synth is like an aural embodiment of his racing pulse as he rushes to be near the love of his life.

The rest of the song is a race against time to get back to this woman. The opening stanza is about a man realizing that heвЂ™s fallen in love and that is life is empty and cold without the person he loves. They are about a man so consumed with passion that he is blind to anything else. Removing the context of the manвЂ™s personal life, the lyrics are about obsession. IвЂ™m told by some gossip nonsense that the song was inspired by The WeekndвЂ™s allegedly rocky relationship with Bella Hadid. The vocal lends the music an emotional depth that it might otherwise lack in the way say Kajagoogoo or Soft Cell was lacking. There is an ache of experience and weariness to The WeekndвЂ™s vocal that is not at odds with the glorious synth line, but rather something that deepens and enriches the sound. The more adult tone of The WeekndвЂ™s vocal lends itself toward something more complex than the mainstream New Wave, something more akin to Depeche Mode. That is just how dynamic Blinding Lights is, the influences are powerful and omni-present and yet a myriad. Until now, IвЂ™ve compared Blinding Lights to mainstream hits such as Take on Me or the work of Duran Duran but I can just as easily see moody 80вЂ™s teens jamming Blinding Lights in the same set as Depeche Mode and The Cure. The scent of a 1980вЂ™s teen nightclub emanates from Blinding Lights. IвЂ™m busy now picking up on the low end bass notes buried deep beneath the drum machine but doing much of the heavy lifting in giving that glorious synth line space to thrive. ItвЂ™s rare for me to get this deep into a song review and not have tackled any of the lyrics but IвЂ™m just so taken with the sound of Blinding Lights that the lyrics have barely registered to me on the 25th replay of the song. Imagine The Weeknd co-existing with the work of 80вЂ™s era Bret Easton Ellis. If not John Hughes, then perhaps place Blinding Lights into something like Michael J FoxвЂ™s Bright Lights, Big City or, even better, Less than Zero. ItвЂ™s lyrically more mature with themes a tad beyond the Hughes demo, but sonically it fits like a glove.

#Blinded by the light meaning movie#

You could drop Blinding Lights directly into a John Hughes movie and it would not miss a beat.

I am almost in tears thinking of my youth spent with Duran Duran, Kajagoogoo and A-Ha. Blinding Lights is a time machine in musical form unlike any I have ever heard before.

Listening to it, I feel like I am drinking in the 1980вЂ™s all over again. The machine on Blinding Lights is nearly as essential as that remarkable synth line. The synth is preceded by the most precise and elegant drum machine drops since A-HaвЂ™s Take on Me made that sound iconic.

The synth line is the hook, itвЂ™s better than any lyric in the song at investing you in the song. The synth line that runs throughout Blinding Lights is the kind of perfection musicians dream of. ThatвЂ™s how remarkably evocative Blinding Lights is as a re-creation of a sonic aesthetic. If you dropped Blinding Lights onto a mix next to Take On Me by A-Ha and Kajagoogoo's Too Shy, you would assume they came out in the same musical moment. Often I have wondered if it were possible to recreate an aesthetic in art perfectly and The Weeknd has done it. The Weeknd has taken us all back in time to 1981, the founding of MTV and the ascension of new wave. Growing up in the 80вЂ™s, I feel like I did grow up inside that synth track. I want to live inside the synth track on The WeekndвЂ™s Blinding Lights.