Karaoke Mondays: Raphael's Angel
12 Mar 2024 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneThis song, released in 1990 by Finnish singer-songwriter Pekka Ruuska, was a mega hit. And that's because it's totally a bop.
It reminds me of the "alternative" bands I was familiar with from my teenage years in the late 1990s (sound wise), like Cake and They Might Be Giants and that song called "If I Had A Million Dollars", which I've always hated, but it's undeniably catchy. I don't hate this song, which is also catchy.
There isn't a music video, apparently. I tried to find a lyric video, but the only one I found had some arguably NSFW and kind of fucked-up art of naked ladies with wings who definitely do NOT resemble the angels of Raphael (who, according to Wikipedia, "according to Michael Levey, 'gives his [figures] a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties'").
The song is basically like, "The world is overwhelming, there's all this stuff, sometimes it sucks, sometimes it's confusing, so have mercy on me, be Raphael's angel to me". One of the repeated bits is about children, so I assume it's about his wife and all the emotional labor and/or comforting she does. Maybe not emotional labor though, since I, at least, get a lot of solace from my own wife just by complaining about my day to her without requiring much more than the naturally elicited reactions like "Huh" and "Lol".
But really, this song is catchy enough that it doesn't matter and most people probably don't notice.
***My pitch towaxjism: "Wax, do you know a Finnish song that goes dun, da-da-da, dun, da-da-da, ... something dum-dum dun dun dun dun dun, ole minulle something-something enkeli?"
"Yes, Rafaelin enkeli," she said immediately.
ETA: Wax has informed me that the song refers to Raphael's famous cherubs from the Sistine Madonna. That didn't occur to me because anybody old enough to understand the plea "Have mercy on me" is too old to be one of these cherubs. She says the songwriter doesn't know what it means either, he was just inspired, or something. Ohhhhkay. Well. Doesn't matter! Still catchy.
It reminds me of the "alternative" bands I was familiar with from my teenage years in the late 1990s (sound wise), like Cake and They Might Be Giants and that song called "If I Had A Million Dollars", which I've always hated, but it's undeniably catchy. I don't hate this song, which is also catchy.
There isn't a music video, apparently. I tried to find a lyric video, but the only one I found had some arguably NSFW and kind of fucked-up art of naked ladies with wings who definitely do NOT resemble the angels of Raphael (who, according to Wikipedia, "according to Michael Levey, 'gives his [figures] a superhuman clarity and grace in a universe of Euclidian certainties'").
The song is basically like, "The world is overwhelming, there's all this stuff, sometimes it sucks, sometimes it's confusing, so have mercy on me, be Raphael's angel to me". One of the repeated bits is about children, so I assume it's about his wife and all the emotional labor and/or comforting she does. Maybe not emotional labor though, since I, at least, get a lot of solace from my own wife just by complaining about my day to her without requiring much more than the naturally elicited reactions like "Huh" and "Lol".
But really, this song is catchy enough that it doesn't matter and most people probably don't notice.
***My pitch to
waxjism: "Wax, do you know a Finnish song that goes dun, da-da-da, dun, da-da-da, ... something dum-dum dun dun dun dun dun, ole minulle something-something enkeli?" "Yes, Rafaelin enkeli," she said immediately.
ETA: Wax has informed me that the song refers to Raphael's famous cherubs from the Sistine Madonna. That didn't occur to me because anybody old enough to understand the plea "Have mercy on me" is too old to be one of these cherubs. She says the songwriter doesn't know what it means either, he was just inspired, or something. Ohhhhkay. Well. Doesn't matter! Still catchy.
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Date: 12 Mar 2024 04:02 pm (UTC)THis is one of my favourite karaoke songs :D
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Date: 12 Mar 2024 04:08 pm (UTC)