![]() But what makes it such a killer at the end of “Dreams” is the way the song earns it first, with a number of smaller, more lightly shaded moments that ensure the song has already connected with listeners on a personal, almost private level, before it sledgehammers them with such a visceral vocal onslaught. It’s a huge, jaw-dropping moment - one few bands match in a lifetime’s worth of work, let alone on a debut single. The rest of the band eventually stops playing and lets the duo have the floor to themselves, as if they’re too enraptured with the vocal showcase to concentrate on anything else anyway. This time, though, she’s eventually paired with a voice that isn’t her own, as then-boyfriend Mike Mahoney twists a yawp of his own around hers, the two winding up in perfect harmony. “You’re a dream to me” may be the last lyric in the song, but it’s far from O’Riordan’s final statement: As the band tees her up with the song’s main groove, the lead Cranberry reaches back and unleashes another wordless, endlessly syllabic “ laaa-daaaa” howl for the ages. Hard to blame any of ’em for trying: The song’s windswept majesty hits with such immediacy that its use in the background turns any onscreen moment into a pivotal one, the kind of emotional shortcut that musical supervisors are only gifted a handful of times in a decade.ġ0. Filmmakers just could not get enough of “Dreams” in the ’90s, plopping it into Tarantino-approved Hong Kong dramas and Tom Cruise-starring action blockbusters alike, as well as numerous TV shows - all hoping to absorb its cinematic grandeur, with varying degrees of success. It works to the song’s benefit, though, making it sound less rote and more personal, and giving it an air of inscrutability matched by its vague title and enigmatic music video.ĩ. There are so many instantly unforgettable moments throughout the verses and breaks to “Dreams” that you might not even notice there’s no real chorus to speak of - the double-tracked vocal sections feel like a prelude to a refrain that never shows up, and the only lyrics that repeat are the previously mentioned opening lines.
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