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Post by Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... on Dec 19, 2013 21:19:02 GMT -5
One of her best songs ever. It's my favorite song on E=MC2 along with 'For The Record'.
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Post by die Lotterie on Dec 20, 2013 0:19:56 GMT -5
This song has held up really well for me, I still love. I probably play it the most from E=MC2, and it's probably in my top five 2000's Mimi singles.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 9:46:41 GMT -5
This song
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For the record are my favs!
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Post by Dreams on Dec 20, 2013 11:41:58 GMT -5
I like it, but I never understood all the love lambs and casual fans give it.
For me, it needed bigger production and vocals to beef it up.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2013 15:14:32 GMT -5
Definitely should have been a single. This album had so much potential, and they picked awful singles.
I liked this more when it came out than I do now. It didn't age well.
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Post by Gold Soundz on Dec 20, 2013 18:01:22 GMT -5
I used to like this more than "Migrate," and now it's vice versa. It had a lot of potential melodically, but the whole waltz beat kind of threw it off. I'm still highly entertained by the youtube cover.
As far as singles go, if she had chosen anything but "Bye Bye," "Love Story," or "Thanks For Nothing," or "I Wish You Well" (for obvious reasons) second, Mariah would probably have 20-21 number ones right now.
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Post by die Lotterie on Dec 20, 2013 19:33:04 GMT -5
I used to like this more than "Migrate," and now it's vice versa. It had a lot of potential melodically, but the whole waltz beat kind of threw it off. I'm still highly entertained by the youtube cover. As far as singles go, if she had chosen anything but "Bye Bye," "Love Story," or "Thanks For Nothing," or "I Wish You Well" (for obvious reasons) second, Mariah would probably have 20-21 number ones right now. I agree with everything regarding the singles. What cover are speaking of btw? |
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Post by Live Your Life on Aug 27, 2015 11:47:34 GMT -5
Good song.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jan 5, 2017 19:31:31 GMT -5
I love this song lyrically and melodically. But my God the production is so terrible, it sounded dated and weak back then and it's even worse now. Could have been a really amazing song aside from that.
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Post by Caviar on Jan 12, 2017 7:52:53 GMT -5
I'm in the minority in that I loved ALL the singles from E=MC2. While they weren't perfect single choices "Side Effects" certainly should have been released second.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2017 21:19:39 GMT -5
Great song, my favorite on the album. Can't believe this wasn't a single!
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Jan 26, 2019 20:54:43 GMT -5
I can relate to this song. I have also suffered side effects from traumatizing events in my life. It's pretty deep.
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 28, 2019 21:10:04 GMT -5
I love this song, and I prefer the solo version:
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Post by Unhinged on Feb 18, 2019 10:03:08 GMT -5
Love it.
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 21, 2020 13:15:59 GMT -5
Does anyone else love how this is basically her flipping "Butterfly" back to her point of view? "Butterfly" was Mariah writing what she wishes Tommy had said to her. "Side Effects" is her telling the story straight up. As such, we get some lyrical flips.
The line of "keeping me there under your thumb" is similar to her saying Tommy imagined her could "keep you under glass."
Saying "I wished I could fly away" is of course like in "Butterfly" when she wants Tommy to let her prepare to fly.
She says she "kept my tears inside" but in "Butterfly" presumably Tommy's tears are "overflowing steadily," but that's more a projection of Mariah.
Hell, there's even the allusion "shining like a chandelier that decorated every room" which is similar to the chandelier in the "Butterfly" video that hangs in that house where she feels trapped.
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Post by #LisaRinna on Jan 21, 2020 16:59:08 GMT -5
Overrated and robotic.
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