Ego You

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"Ego You"
Song
B-side	"Moody Blues" "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" "More Than I Can Say"

Ego You is the third single from Declan Galbraith and the first single from his third album, You and Me. The song was released on November 16, 2007. Ego You was written by Norwegian singer-songwriter Jonas Groth. The single also contains a song Declan wrote, called 'Moody Blues'.

Written by marshwiggle23

Moving with young people is one of the best things that can happen to anyone getting old because it keeps the mind young. Thus I learn more from the young than from the old. They are the ones who have their pulse on what's actually happening out there in the present world in the fileds I'm interested in like literature, music, art ,design, poetry , technology etc. My children, my nephews and nieces, my students in school and college are constantly educating, surprising and astounding me. The fear that old people have that the young don't know what quality is is quite unfounded, because they are in the process of learning to sift and are very well entitled to make a few mistakes in their quest to define what excellence is. To come to the point: the arrival of exciting new audio-visual spaces like youtube made me aware that my children don't prefer to watch musicians who are old but like watching ones who are their age. My daughter loved "Long haired lover from Liverpool" by Jimmy Osmond of the Osmonds simply because he was her age or less when he sang that song.

Recently I came across Declan through one of my many nieces. I didn't like "Tell Me Why" or "An Angel" as she put them on for me despite their fame and the videos being quite slick and professional etc., but then she put on a recent song of his called "Ego You" and I was stumped. There was a Verve feeling about the video ,defintely, something my niece wouldn't know - it was obviously a slight rip off off "Bittersweet Symphony" - and the lead guitar riff sounded good but amazingly familiar like I'd heard it in a hundred songs before so I couldn't place it anymore. But what really freaked me out was that rare felicitous mix of Barthesian text(lyrics) -image(video)- (soft hard rock) music/sound that presaged a classic. i couldn't stop listening to the song because it said so well what it felt like to give up love for the sake of one's future and how selfishness destroys one.

I was surprised - though I shouldn't have been, to hear such mature sentiments expressed in a 16 year old's choice of song. I remembered Pope: "what oft was thought but never so well expressed." I loved the way the form and content were one, seamlessly gliding into each other ,so that they were inseparable, as love and suffering is.

"Through all your life All filled with strife All you desire has been torn up in two Because of Ego You" - lyrics by Jonas Groth

If that's not universal I don't know what is.

Declan may or may not make other good songs, covers or otherwise, or go on to become a great. But this is a great song at a certain level.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiBZ8-ITTg0

Topic : Reviews » Audio-Video Tags : Audio-Video | lyrics | Music | rock | video

Tracks

• Ego You
• Moody Blues
• Everything's Gonna Be Alright
• More Than I Can Say (Unreleased)