There were still occasional rock breakthroughs throughout the ‘90s, like Meat Loaf’s “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” Bryan Adams’ “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” and Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.” There was also the phenomenon of Elton John’s updated “Candle in the Wind,”
Not rock, not rock, not rock... and not even close to rock.
When I first heard “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman” it was only a few years ago, long after the song came out. I didn’t know who sang it.
My first thoughts: “This song must be from some movie where the girls were all GaGa over how the singer looked. And it probably wasn’t even a professional singer. Maybe a popular actor, somebody like Johnny Depp, who is known to dabble in performing music here and there. The voice, energy and delivery are dry, raspy, lethargic to the point of being weak.
That is the sound of someone doing Kareoke after too many Tequila Sunrises, but allows himself to be recorded anyway.
Absolutely agree.
Yes, I have to seriously question them. Except as I pointed out, it seems anything hip is “rock” these days. You don’t dare call it something less hip.
Agreed...nothing close to rock in there at all.