FMuD: You Were Meant for Me

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What is the saddest section of the song?

Verse 1
0
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Verse 2
0
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Chorus
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Verse 3
2
22%
Verse 4
1
11%
Bridge
2
22%
Verse 5
0
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Verse 6
4
44%
"Yeah..."
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Total votes: 9

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FMuD: You Were Meant for Me

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It's a Friday Music Discussion!

This song sticks with me, and every time I hear it, every time!, I can picture myself waking up in my senior year dorm room, lights blazing, TV on, me slumped on the couch because I was too drunk to get up to my loft (but not drunk enough to try anyway, I guess) to hear and see poor, devastated, writhing and written upon Jewel being manhandled by some 90s dude in a ruffled shirt. God damn she was pretty.

Why can a song so easily take you to a place and time? What songs do that for you, and why? Both great questions but not why we're here today.

What we're after today is which section of the song is the most achingly sad? Feel free to watch the video multiple times and use it as a reference (maybe you can pinpoint the exact moment her heart breaks in two).

Verse 1:
I hear the clock, it's six A.M.
I feel so far from where I've been
I got my eggs, I got my pancakes too
I got my maple syrup, everything but you.

Verse 2:
I break the yolks and make a smiley face
I kinda like it in my brand new place
Wipe the spots off of the mirror
Don't leave my keys in the door
I never put wet towels on the floor anymore
'cause

Chorus:
Dreams last so long
Even after you're gone
I know that you love me
And soon you will see
You were meant for me
And I was meant for you.

Verse 3:
I called my mamma, she was out for a walk
Consoled a cup of coffee but it didn't wanna talk
So I picked up the paper, it was more bad news
More hearts bein' broken, more people being used

Verse 4:
Put on my coat in the pouring rain
I saw a movie it just wasn't the same
'Cause it was happy or I was sad
And it made me miss you oh so bad
'cause

{chorus}

Bridge:
I go about my business, I'm doing fine
Besides what would I say if I had you on the line?
Same old story, not much to say
Hearts are broken, every day.

Verse 5:
I brush my teeth, I put the cap back on
I know you hate it when I leave the light on
I pick a book up and then I turn the sheets down.
And then I take a deep breath and a good look around

Verse 6:
Put on my pj's and hop into bed
I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead
I try and tell myself it'll all be alright
I just shouldn't think anymore tonight
'cause

{chorus}

The plaintive little "yeah" right at the end:
Yeah, you were meant for me and I was meant for you.

Author's note: I'm not sure if the video version of the song was always a slightly different recording from the album, or if she re-recorded it at some point, but the cut from Pieces of You on Spotify is not the definitive version as included above.
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Did he die or is this just a break-up song with stalky undertones?
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Jerloma wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 11:54 am Did he die or is this just a break-up song with stalky undertones?
Oh shit. I always assumed the latter.
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rass wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:17 pm
Jerloma wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 11:54 am Did he die or is this just a break-up song with stalky undertones?
Oh shit. I always assumed the latter.
Mind kinda blown. I'd always assumed the latter as well.
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Yeah, the video makes it seem like he died.

For the record, the saddest verse in any song for me is

Baby, I remember
All the things you taught me
I learned how to laugh
And I learned how to cry
So you'd think I could learn
How to tell you...



Goodbye.

:-(
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He totally did not die

Also, this won Best Female Video at the 1997 VMAs and they are so perfectly 1997 that if you were to randomly guess what the other nominees were you would actually nail it.
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Jesus H. Christ on a treadmill, Virtual Insanity did NOT win the award for best choreography
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Torn?
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Fly?
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Jerloma wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:47 pmTorn?
1998 but you're in the right angsty zone
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Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
Meredith Brooks - Bitch
Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone
Erykah Badu - On & On

I mean that is some Real World Soundtrack Volume III tuneage.
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rass wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 3:37 pm Most 90ist thing I’ve found this week.
Quick takeaways:

1. Man, that reminded me of a bunch of actors I hadn't thought about in a long time, 90% of whom I didn't like.
2. In the 10% of the above I did like: Gabrielle Anwar
3. Remember when "Hey, David Spade can really pull!" was a thing?
4. Any 10 pictures from that timeline account for an industrial oil drum's worth of Dep hair gel.
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Gabrielle Anwar! That’s the name I couldn’t come up with.

Lisa Loeb sighting on one posted this evening. If I ever do a third 90s musician I still have a crush on thread she’ll probably be featured.
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Also the '90s thing of "It's cool to look like you were caught off-guard when having your picture taken, even when in a place where the point is to have your picture taken."

e: Also, is that MacGyver with Teri Hatcher? Did he borrow his suit from someone who weighed 200 pounds more than he did?
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Ryan wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:53 pm
Jerloma wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:47 pmTorn?
1998 but you're in the right angsty zone
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:21 pm Also the '90s thing of "It's cool to look like you were caught off-guard when having your picture taken, even when in a place where the point is to have your picture taken."
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Eric Bogosian and Whoopi Goldberg had the same hair. That made me laugh.
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I think I actually voted in this one but didn't comment in the thread. Is there a way to find out?
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rass wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 3:37 pm Most 90ist thing I’ve found this week.
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The Sybian wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:44 pm
rass wrote: Fri Apr 19, 2019 3:37 pm Most 90ist thing I’ve found this week.
Man, "Account Suspended."
Yeah, not sure what happened there.

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brian wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:59 pm I think I actually voted in this one but didn't comment in the thread. Is there a way to find out?
The poll is still open, so if you can't note now you must have voted then. Just hover over the options until it tells you which one you picked.
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I heard this song on the radio this week and while trying to remember if I actually created this thread or just thought about it multiple times and never pulled the trigger I realized that there is another possible interpretation of the song in the lyrics, beyond "dead lover" or "stalker ex-girlfriend". How about "woman who left a relationship with a controlling partner," or at least "woman who left a relationship with a partner who constantly criticized her to the point that she doesn't feel comfortable being herself even when she's alone".

Wipe the spots off of the mirror
Don't leave my keys in the door
I never put wet towels on the floor anymore

...

I brush my teeth, I put the cap back on
I know you hate it when I leave the light on
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