![]() ![]() I don't think he is so much disillusioned with his job, after all he does say "I'm a Rocket Man" with some pride. It's all an I agree with the comparison to a blue collar job, I have a different take on a few things. These "jobs" consume our lives, envelop our being, and suck out our souls, as we make sacrifices like being away from our homes "five days a week", or relocating to horrible places to find work (like Oklahoma, or Detroit, or Indiana, or North Dakota, or "Mars"), none of which are the kind of place you would want to "raise your kids", but we still do, because we don't really have a choice, as we toil away to make our livings, burning out our fuses, all alone. No matter what we do for a living, whether it is something as high-tech and sophisticated as being an astronaut, as complex as being a physician, or as simple as being a street sweeper, we're just minor cogs in a massive preprogrammed economic machine, just "doing our jobs" 5 days a week, not truly understanding the "science" behind the mechanical tasks that we repetitiously perform day in, day out. ![]() Anyone who has worked for a "long, long time", and is beyond the phase of disilusionment that accompanies the enthusiasm and excitement of youth, understands this. It expresses the lonliness, hopelessness, boredom, repetitiveness, routine, and drudgery of working life on the road, in the field, in an office, on a job site, in a lab, in a truck, week in, week out. Rocket Man is actually about comparing the life of an astronaut to that of an everyday shlub working stiff, whether he be a traveling salesman, a factory worker, a field engineer, an oil rig dude, a trucker, an accountant, a construction worker, a doctor, or whatever. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kidsĪnd there's no one there to raise them if you did Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone 'Til touch down brings me round again to find “Cold Heart” has over 700 million streams on Spotify alone and continues to grow in popularity.And I think it's gonna be a long, long time In addition to the various other notable records that “Cold Heart” made, people simply love the song. ![]() The 2021 release is also Lipa’s third number-one single. “Cold Heart” is John’s first UK number-one single since “Ghetto Gospel”-a Tupac song John was featured on-topped the charts after its release in 2005. it’s always keeping the emotions ripe that’s the intention.” The massive success of “Cold Heart” is sure to be a part of John’s legacy. Littlemore also chimed in saying, “Weaving the vocals together, making both the melodies and lyrics gel as one was the most challenging part of making ‘Cold Heart.’… Often, I leave the song on loop, walk out of the room, and when I come back in, I instantly know if it’s ‘right’ if that emotion is driving the music deep into me…. And a lot of the vocal tracks we had were huge iconic Elton John hits, and we’d sort of stayed away from them on the previous album intentionally, as we wanted to unearth a lot of lesser-known Elton records and vocals then,” he said. Then Elton was like, ‘Do you wanna do some more?’ and we had a lot of his vocals that we hadn’t really touched upon. ![]() 1 in the U.K., which was a great moment for us. “We did an album with Elton that came out in 2012 and it went No. ![]()
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