What is the appeal? Why does this vid have 500,000+ views?

[Drummie123]

What is the appeal? Why does this vid have 500,000+ views?


I will share my FOUR (maybe more) answers after a few of you share yours.

THIS ONE BROKE ME!!! TOM JONES - I’ll Never Fall In Love Again REACTION (first time hearing) (6:38)

 

[Drummie123]

I will help break the ice.

We like seeing people express genuine emotions.

Who hasn't looked up or down to see their lover's expression at the moment of their greatest passion?


The Doobie Brothers - Real Love

You see, the lyrics make it clear that the singer and his lover have a relationship that's not fulfilling to either of them. He wishes it was more, but she seems unwilling or unable to commit. Her many lovers come and go via a revolving door. So the song is not a celebration of real love; it's actually a lament for the LACK of real love. The only positive here is that they both recognize the situation ("we've both lived long enough to know that we'd trade it all right now for just one minute of real love") and he, at least, is holding on to the ideal of real love ("I need to believe in real love").

(Lyrics posted below)

We find that the expression of genuine emotion is even contagious.

We can cry just by seeing someone else cry.

She imagines that Tom Jones is actually relating a real life, personal experience and she is moved to tears at his supposed despair.

And we are moved to tears by hers.

Very subliminal stuff, but very real and very powerful.

That's one of the reasons her video has so many views, imho.


It also explains how so many people subscribe to Left wing political philosophy.

They pander to our emotions.

But this post and topic aren't/isn't/ain't about politics, so I will stop there.

Your turn.

Real Love
The Doobie Brothers
“Real Love” is the lead single from the Doobie’s ninth studio album One Step Closer. It is their fourth (of five) US top 10 hits, hitting #5 in the fall of 1980. It also did well in Canada and Australia.

Produced by

Ted Templeman
Release Date

September 17, 1980
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Darling, I know I'm just
Another head on your pillow
If only just tonight, girl
Let me hear you lie just a little

Tell me I'm the only man
That you ever really loved
Honey, take me back
Deep in my memory
A time when it was all
Very right, so very nice
(So very nice) so very nice

Here, darling, stands
Another bandit wanting you
In and out your life
They come and they go, baby

Your days and nights
Like a wheel that turns
Grindin' downg a secret part of you
Deep inside your heart
That nobody knows

When you say comfort me
To anyone who approaches
Chalking up the hurt
We live and you learn
Well, we've both lived
Long enough to know
That we'd trade it all right now
For just one minute
Of real love, darling

Real love, hey baby (real love)
I need to believe in (real love)
Real love, baby (real love)
Real love, darling (real love)

When you say comfort me
To anyone who approaches
Chalking up the hurt
You live and we learn

Well, we've both lived
Long enough to know
That we'd trade it all right now
For just one minute
Of real love, darling

Real love, real love
Real love, real love
(Real love) whoa oh (real love)
I need to believe in (real love)
Real love, darling (real love)
Just one minute of (real love)
Real love, baby (real love)
Just one minute of (real love)