Meaning of No Matter What. I certainly haven’t heard it on the radio since. Ignore the evidence of the real world, ignore the expertise or experience of others: what you believe is true, because God says so. The fadeout on Drake's "Hotline Bling" lasts 55 seconds - one of the longest outros of any hip-hop hit. I was so focussed on the surface of the song that I didn’t pay much attention to the lyrics, but after Tom’s review I’ve studied them more closely, and ye gods, they’re appalling. The group have had 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12 of their 20 singles in the UK being in the UK Top 2. On that first listen the production annoyed me no end, as with all of Boyzone’s work, but I’ve given a couple of their past hits a 3, so production alone doesn’t drive their songs into 1 territory for me. As much as I relish it, I still have some misgivings about preaching to the choir about the awfulness of Boyzone, perhaps due to a contrarian urge to challenge myself even when the result is inevitable. Re: “on the dramatic change of attitudes towards religious belief in Ireland in recent decades as evidenced in Irish popular music”: and other branches of popular culture. Perhaps only one, and she had also found the 90s harsher going than anticipated. Popular FAQ Boyzone song meanings and interpretations with user discussion. That song could be described (if you were cynical about such things) as being better than it has any right to be. I agree, fundamentalism is antithetical to relativism, but that relates to my point about the lyrics being open to multiple interpretations. Popular is funded by the generosity of my Patreon patrons. It (just) gets a 3 from me. Too bad it didn’t reach #1. But by extension â and freed from this context to roam free on radio â itâs a song about any kind of personal faith in the teeth of adversity. But Lloyd Webber doesnât get his lyricist either â he gets Steinman ringing the changes on a three-word phrase to abstracting and tedious effect. Stardust’s hit reached #62 in the US although I have no memory of hearing it at the time. No matter what they tell you No matter what they do No matter what they teach you What you believe is true. ^ just a spambot cutting and pasting from the above comments, but enough to put the heart crossways in me. I don’t know a lot about UK #2 hits, but this would go up there as one of the worst blockages from #1 ever for me. It’s dull, it’s dreadful, it’s stupid, it’s pointless. But an analysis of what might have been only explains why âNo Matter Whatâ is a disappointment â not why I particularly dislike it. (C) 1998 Polydor Ltd. (UK) Show more Radio stations currently playing this track. No matter what they do (ooh) No matter what they teach you What you believe is true And I will keep you safe and strong And shelter from the storm No matter where it's barren A dream is being born No matter who they follow No matter where they lead No matter how they judge us I'll be everyone you need No matter if the sun don't shine (sun don't shine) But there you go: it’s hard for me to give this mob a fair shake. You might see it as Boyzone asking to be taken seriously, except it fits so well with the stately, windy ballads they were already making: this isnât a stylistic change so much as a levelling up in songwriting competence. Philippines 1894. Had fond childhood memories of that place, whole days spent throwing sticks into streams. David Whitfield or Ronnie Hilton would have felt comfy with NMW, and could have wrung something more out of It. But a blind-faith religious interpretation is also possible, and makes it surprising that this didn’t do more business in the US, or at least in the midwest. And sing a song about being them. No.2 watch: Dave Stavroz’ ‘Hot Lips’ (a Curiosity Killed The Cat-influenced number honed on Dave’s days working the Medway jazz scene), and Keni’s proto-afrobeat monster ‘Lust In My Head’. Good grief people, I realize this isn’t the most profound song of all time (I stand by my 5/10), but do we really need to go Godwin here? 2. Ah Tom of all times to give this lot a 1.It’s not that bad! I like this melody a lot but mostly because something very similar can be heard on ‘Amor I love You’ by Brazilian singer Marisa Monte – which you can listen to here. @11 – Aye, Mysterious Times was excellent, a rare high-charting trance records that genuinely thrills me, up there with Bullet in the Gun and Plummet – Damaged (one of the few trance records with an alt-country source! Steinman doesnât get his voice, he gets the maudlin strainings of Ronan et al. The best-selling single from the Irish boy band, topping singles charts in several countries around the world, including the UK and their native Ireland in 1998. Couldn’t have picked a better (or worse) song to go with it though – listening again one final time ever I genuinely felt uncomfortable and unhappy, not my usual reaction to any music, no matter how bad. NMW is like the crude stereotype of relativism that critics of postmodernism accuse it of being. Definition of no matter what in the Idioms Dictionary. The song is good but not great when compared to ‘Back For Good’ or ‘Stay Another Day’. I don’t hate it but I don’t like it much either. What does no matter what expression mean? Madness: Bridesmaids, Reservoir Dogs, Willy Wonka - just a few of the flicks where characters discuss specific songs, sometimes as a prelude to murder. The action prompted the songwriters Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Jim Steinman to write a letter of protest to the national press. I generally don’t like boy bands so unsurprisingly I’m not a fan of this. That will ⦠Their huge global hit #1 across Europe, New Zealand and Asia though just missed US top 100 at #116 and moderate in Canada #51 (only charting song there). Wow, some real rancor here. I blame the World Cup. General Augusto Pinochet Boyzone version The successful boyband had their twelfth consecutive Top 5 hit with the song, which reached number one on the UK singles charts . Intensely tedious and self-satisfied. Boogie Brothers’ ‘Inferno’ hit no.1 during Stardust’s reign here. Difficult to see it as anything other than hateful now. Trying to pin down the peculiarly bad taste it leaves, I keep coming back to âNo Matter Whatââs theme. Wander around in the archives, or join in with the marvellous bunch of commenters we've managed to attract - new voices always very welcome! Banal covers of the Bee Gees, Tracy Chapman and the Osmonds, show tunes, three years and literally nothing has changed. The "Lowdown" and "Lido Shuffle" singer makes a habit of playing with the best in the business. Seconded on Swanstep’s support for Lloyd Webber @7: I am not a huge fan, but I think he is usually interesting and sometimes a lot of fun. I would run a mile from A Lloyd-Webber at the best of times, but if Steinman was involved with a weaker recording than this I am yet to hear it. #22: It’s going to seem strange not to be referring to “Bunnied Welsh Band” any more. There is one moment â the most Steinmanesque bit of the song â where Boyzone solemnly assert that if prayers were answered, the words God would utter are… the chorus of âNo Matter Whatâ. But I’m delighted to be back on FT. Ronan and the ladsâ final release…, This is one of the two Boyzone records I couldnât well remember. Still, there’s a pretty tune in there somewhere – I have a weakness for Lloyd Webber arrangements – so a 3 for that. It holds the record for the longest running chart topper Down Under since the first ever ARIA Chart was listed in 1983. I can report that NMW spent fully 6 weeks at the top of the Kiwi charts. It has a formidable legacy: as well…, THE MANIC STREET PREACHERS – “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” », The Sound Barrier Podcast: 1: The Lost World / The Lost City Of Z. This is possibly one of the very few Boyzone hits that I can actually remember. If it reminds me of any other number one then it’s ‘Eternal Flame’ – every bit as soporific, smarmy and off-puttingly assured in it’s polished ‘professionalism’. Joseph Kony This only got to #5 here in Australia, but it spent 16 weeks in the top 10 and 29 in the top 50. (Perhaps that’s why it got what little chart support it did there, though.). Primary colours, or even primary school – the unabashed sweetness of Puff the Magic Dragon and Morning Town Ride, but deployed artfully and for an adult audience. Re: 34, looking at the French wikipedia for Stardust (mon Francais non est bien, so I may be wrong) I suspect Izzy’s comment is a rather sly one :-), thefatgit@14 – ‘your boyzone took a hell of a beating’, surely…. Was mighty worried at the beginning of this article that Tom was going to show mercy and I’m mighty glad he didn’t; I completely agree, this is the worst Boyzone single I’ve ever heard. (An aside: curious to see what she’s said about recent news, I checked her website, and from there found that she had a mere 391 followers on Twitter. I’ve got this nagging feeling it may have been the last UK chart topper for both Steinman and Lloyd-Webber – I may be wrong but I can’t think of any after this. 2. Best of Boyzone: https://goo.gl/8yRMn3Subscribe here: https://goo.gl/WKagsRMusic video by Boyzone performing No Matter What.#Boyzone #NoMatterWhat #Vevo I'm writing about every UK number one single, in order. Popular Lucky Dip (a random post), Tom invented Freaky Trigger on a bus journey in the mid-90s. âNo matter what they teach you,â runs the key line, âWhat you believe is trueâ. Or if the skies aren't blue. Can’t give away the bunny, but I can give away something about a warm injection (I know), I’m also back in Clitheroe – Whistle Down The Wind was set in the surrounding villages, particularly Downham. Meaning of no matter what. [1] Its most famous line-up was composed of Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, and Shane Lynch.Boyzone have had 19 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 21 singles in the Irish charts. No matter who they follow. Has been played on. "No Matter What" is a song from the 1996 musical Whistle Down the Wind and popularised by Irish boyband Boyzone in 1998 when they recorded it to tie in with the show's first UK production. Pushing aside Boyzone for a while (or forever, I wouldn’t miss them), I’ve always had a problem with ALW’s writing style. No matter if the sun don't shine. Bowie's "activist" days of 1964 led to Ziggy Stardust. You might see it as Boyzone asking to be taken seriously, except it fits so well with the stately, windy ballads they were already making: ⦠As an American, I know Boyzone only through Popular — Tom says this was successful in the USA, which is news to me — and I was genuinely shocked to find this had such a sterling pedigree, because, as noted, it sounds exactly like all their other dreck covered here. This might seem plainly unfair. alert: “Mysterious Times” now vying with “Ecuador” as my favorite of the bunch. Number of number one hits produced by Jim Steinman for the rock acts he is generally associated with: 2, Number of number one hits produced by Jim Steinman for cheesy 90s boy bands: 2. Eddie Vedder often changes the words when he sings "Yellow Ledbetter." Maybe, just maybe the Everleys or McCartney (and MJ say) could have sold this with flat out gorgeous harmonies, but Boyzone are nowhere near that. Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" was the #1 single in Australia for 13 weeks. The song was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman, while Lloyd Webber, Steinman and Nigel Wright produced the track, with additional production by Franglen & Lupino. And before long they’d receive acceptance, of a sort, by way of a cameo in a U2 video. Just one more won’t hurt.. ;) ). Also, I thought someone would have mentioned the Meat Loaf version by now. « SPICE GIRLS – “Viva Forever” After 4 months on the charts Polydor reduced the dealer price to 1.78 pounds, one pence below that stipulated by the charts' compilers CIN in order to remove competition from the next Boyzone single "I Love The Way You Love Me." Boyzone songs are generally so undemanding that they’re easy to relegate to a sort of benign background hum. Kailash29792 12:31, 16 June 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. Probably because the message is completely antithetical to any kind of religious message ,and very obviously so. There’s something about the chord sequence and the phrasing that sounds unspeakably wrong, and the way Gately and Keating sing sounds like a man calmly telling his family that he’s about to kill them. British pop star Calum Scott stopped by the Hits studio to chat with Stace and Flynny about his latest single No Matter What.. A few too many awkward modulations and rhythms and you start alienating people. Whatâs more,…, You can see why Simon Fuller and the label wanted âSay Youâll Be Thereâ to be the Spice Girlsâ launch single. Oppose Webber is not the only writer ("Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jim Steinman, [and] Nigel Wright"); I see no reason to add ⦠One third of Stardust are one half of Daft Punk, I seem to recall. Index of reviews and scores so far Horrible. David Icke Blocking these two songs is only made worse due to the fact that Boyzone had 5 other #1s and that this blends in with so many other similar songs by boy bands. Agree with #7 about its musical straightforwardness – the verse tune, or maybe even the whole tune, could easily be a dum-de-dum nineteenth century hymn in the vein of There Is A Green Hill Far Away. Radio Regenbogen - Musical & Filmhits. No matter who they follow No matter where they lead No matter how they judge us Iâll be everyone you need. I wonder whether anyone has written hymn words to it? Sun Myung Moon. But I imagine that anyone who does take them up on it wouldn’t see them as relativist: they would see them as justifying their own position. Professional, effective and completely lacking in heart and soul. A page about what he's up to can be found, Required (Your email address will not be published), Thereâs no âGoodbyeâ or âNever Forgetâ for Boyzone, no bravura statement of a legacy: that legacy, after all, was happily preparing its second single. And I will keep you safe and strong (And sheltered) Sheltered from the storm (No matter where) No matter where it's barren (A dream) A dream is being born. I don’t think NMW is relativist. I also have to quote here Alexei Sayle’s reaction on hearing that Ben Elton was working on a musical with Lloyd Webber: “I have to say, I’m quite disappointed. There’s been plenty of care taken over the arrangement – the final seconds, with the members of the band finishing each other’s lines, standing together, are certainly a thoughtful touch. Yes, I think this catches something. It was the fifth and final top forty appearance for her, which based on her TOTP performance strikes me as a tragic waste of a really incredible voice. I was thinking about that this week with the horrific news from Galway. Yeah, it’s bizarre hearing certain US right-wingers run all sorts of relativist/post-modernist lines to defend themselves against science when they’re wildly non-relativist/absolutist about morals (and much else). "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me) " borrows four bars from Notorious B.I.G's "The World Is Filled." Our dream is being born . Terrible, just terrible, narcissism and boredom. (In other circumstances his bombast, with assured musical confidence and excess, allows all sorts of lyrical foolishness through the filter: the very blandness of this track means there is no escape, and leads me to wonder how Boyzone might have covered one of the songs from his – in places wonderful – Pandora’ s Box project ‘(There’s No Such Thing As) Safe Sex (When It Comes To Lovin’ You)’. Thankfully, fans of the “bunnied welsh band” formulation can just switch to the St*r**ph*n*cs. The only essence of the Ribble Valley here is that Boyzone sound like sheep (literally.) Boyzone are an Irish boy band. The chronology of Popular means that with Take That out of the picture we don’t get much of the kind of contrast between good and bad boybands you might find at other times, at least not yet. Firstly can I be a clever clogs and mention that this was actually the third chart hit from the Whistle Down The Wind musical; Tina Arena’s title song was the second but the first was When Children Rule The World by Red Hill Children which propped up the top forty for a week in 1996. Such a bland, self-satisfied track, which manages to elide religion with superstition, apparent concern for truth with self-absorbed indifference to anything other than ones own unconsidered feelings, this comes perilously close to insulting its audience, who none the less were, evidently, lapping it up. But the chorus is better than most things in this genre, for example latter-day Arcade Fire. Music video by Boyzone performing No Matter What. But of course the details of this are very much down to his librettist, which is why the Jim Steinman team-up seemed so odd and (on paper) intriguing. Information and translations of no matter what in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. But if anything the larger scale, and thwarted ambition, of this, just makes this all the worse. And Shane Lynch has been told to ‘be Howard Donald’. There’s a righteous strength in that, but paranoia too – as a sentiment, it could be a source of comfort and strength to anyone on the losing side of a social argument, from apostates to anti-vaxxers. Sung in Portugese I don’t have to agonise over the lyrics either. WestZone = the ultimate boyband! Once Louis Walsh and crew found a style that worked, they generally stuck to…, In an age of one-week wonders, âBelieveâ was a phenomenon â a massive global hit, bossing the charts for close to two months. Since Patrick@38’s mentioned the WC, what a cracking start this tournament’s had (good effort Aussies! And I do: in fact I detest it. no matter what phrase. The horrific news from Galway peaked at #2, of course. Older, wiser, sorted my life out – this time I will try to post a little bit less like a crazed fictional dictator. (Perhaps thatâs why it got what little chart support it did there, though.) Sorry, sorry, huge apologies for leaving you with Ronan and the lads for ages. Which means whatever the basic strength of the melody, I end up feeling âNo Matter Whatâ stretches itself desperately thin. It's taken a while, it'll take a while longer. Not to bang a drum but for me this is the polar opposite of Viva Forever in terms of ambition and accomplishment. Not his finest tune by a long shot, but still memorable. When singers started spoofing their own songs on Sesame Street, the results were both educational and hilarious - here are the best of them. Vocally it’s bland and very uninteresting. No matter why the end is. True fact and it seems contextually relevant! There is absolutely nothing unlawful regarding downloading. This song reminds me of when I was a young single mother of a little boy. I mean, sure, this song could be interpreted as being on the side of nutcases and kooks, but couldn’t it also be interpreted as not always conforming to the party line? No Matter What (Boyzone song) â No Matter What (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) â Boyzone are not the original composers; Andrew Lloyd Webber is. On one level I can see them being read as simple affirmation of a young couple’s love for one another in the face of hostility from friends and family. The only Boyzone song I’m familiar with and I have little motivation on exploring their catalogue further. Weird that the embarrassing “A Different Beat” has turned out to the best of their number ones (at least so far, I haven’t spoiled myself to see if they’ll be troubling us again on Popular). Learn the full song lyrics at MetroLyrics. Don McLean's "American Pie" starts in mono and gradually goes to stereo. Looks like a little while until the final one. But just the thought of all the myxomatosis-afflicted Irish bunnies we have to face before we get to that point is almost too depressing for words. Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. That is the sort of fact I wish I had known before the review. Maybe it just wasn’t played on the stations I was listening to. Unfortunately ALW slides right off the other side, writing exactly the sort of “primary colours” melody that gets under my skin. It’s a better song than the performance and I’ll go as far to say I don’t dislike it. Jay-Z and Biggie Smalls attended Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School in Brooklyn, New York at the same time. had in the UK. Instead, they release their Greatest Hits album, Back Again: No Matter What, complete with three new songs to give old and new fans alike a taster of what's to come, of the way Boyzone sound now. So the more universal a pop song gets, the woollier it gets too – big surprise. Boyzone - No Matter What (Official Music Video) No matter what you've done You can't erase His love Nothing can change it Youâre not separated No matter where you run He's always holding on You're still a daughter, Youâre still a son No ... Ryan Stevenson - No Matter What (feat. Boyzone merely covered it. This is them scrubbed up and with their strongest material, and still almost every decision they make – including and especially those nerve-scraping “Chika-ahh-ahh-ahh” breaths at the start – makes me cross. The basic story is about a guy whose brother dies in the first Gulf War. While deadly dull, this is at least a marginally more substantial composition, less of a complete non-entity of a song, than their then most recent previous number one. http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-biggest-shakeup-in-singles-chart-history-all-your-questions-answered?recache=1&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=chartsshakeup, I can’t find it on the net but thought I’d mention that the popularity of the next number one saw the title used to protest against the silvermines in Tipperary Ireland becoming a landfill site. The song was recorded by the pop group Boyzone. Apparently, bad news in the army is given in yellow envelopes. (All the Anglosphere teams are in beast groups, which is making for a very exciting first phase of the tournament in my household, and I’d guess for Popularistas generally.). I would say over rated and I think some of the covers Boyzone did were better than this track. Delighted Tom’s ploughing through the late nineties like Mr. Mercedes. No matter where it's barren. Madonnaâs apparent…, CHER, CHRISSIE HYNDE AND NENEH CHERRY WITH ERIC CLAPTON - "Love Can Build A Bridge", âLove Can Build A Bridgeâ has one of the best line-ups of any charity single â three women who have each made, on their day, magnificent pop records. Staggeringly low, really. The video didn’t emerge until quite a few weeks after Stardust peaked at #2 here. For my part, I find the sentiment of “No matter what they teach you / What we believe is true” totally toxic. In terms of just the music, pop toes the line between flair and simplicity. If anything, the worst thing about this record going to #1 is it blocking Music Sounds Better With You (which would get a 10 from me) from #1. νικά ÐÑлгаÑÑки Ð ÑÑÑкий СÑпÑки اÙعربÙØ© ÙØ§Ø±Ø³Û æ¥æ¬èª íêµì´ I mean, we always had our political differences, and I wasn’t keen on a lot of what he did, but there was always a sort of grudging respect there. Sinead was a prophet before her time. By these expectations, âNo Matter Whatâ is a very damp squib. I’ve always thought I was a bit of a cynic, but jeez…. No matter how they judge us. Omar Al Bashir It’s comical, but it makes complete sense: in a self-centred worldview, that kind of ultimate underwriting of belief is all faith is. It’s fundamentally anti-science, anti-rationality: a total eclipse of the brain. It’s probably their most agreeable thing they did popular wise.I would say whats left of them is more deserving of a lower mark than this. Interestingly, or perhaps not, Heart have recently been giving much airplay to the original of ‘Baby Can I Hold You’ – which I don’t think was ever a UK hit for Tracy Chapman. And Boyzone certainly do. Any chance of salvaging local pride from NMW? Anarchyte (work | talk) 12:41, 24 June 2016 (UTC). The lizards don’t want you listening to the ‘Zone. Poor man’s Take That for sure. No matter who they follow No matter where they lead No matter how they judge us I was thinking about that this week with the horrific news from Galway. ”. No matter what they do (ooh) No matter what they teach you What you believe is true And I will keep you safe and strong And sheltered from the storm No matter where it's barren A dream is being born (Ooh) No matter who they follow No matter where they lead No matter how they judge us I'll be everyone you need No matter if the sun don't shine (sun don't shine) Graham Linehan said somewhere that he couldn’t have (co-)written Father Ted today, because its affectionate portrait of its priests would be so at odds with all we’ve heard in recent years. Pool balls, magpies and thorns without roses - how well do you know your Tom Waits lyrics? Though they are weak, the ad-libs – “chk-chk-ah”, and that growl on “at-TACK” – suggest even Boyzone thought this was a little too milky and regulated. Keith Duffy looks like a total divvy on the cover. @23 And Ronan has caught a whiff of something nasty. And I’m not sure I ever heard it apart from my own trip to London that December. Boyzone's No Matter What music video in high definition. No Matter What by Boyzone song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position It also made for one of the most memorable TOTPs ever. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs, The original song was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman for the musical. “No Matter What”‘s dogged devotion – its affirmation that your feelings matter – isn’t taking it places “Viva Forever” doesn’t visit too. They get early posts, exclusive material, and more. Bart Millard of MercyMe) [Official Lyric Video] Watching the Boyzone video makes me wonder why they were considered a ‘boy’ band – they look like an awkward, well behaved stag party at a karaoke bar. 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