![]() ![]() You know what I mean?", while Colvin was about to receive her award. Rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard interrupted the Grammy Awards presentation by protesting Puff Daddy beating his group, Wu-Tang Clan, for Best Rap Album that year, saying "Wu-Tang is for the children. Awards Īt the 1998 Grammy Awards, it was named Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Outside North America, the song became a moderate hit, peaking at number 29 in the United Kingdom, number 44 in Australia and number 90 in Germany. "Sunny Came Home" also became a major hit in Canada, reaching number three on the RPM Top Singles chart for two weeks and peaking atop the RPM Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks. ![]() Colvin's record label did not plan to release the track as a retail single until it became an airplay favorite on contemporary hit radio as well as adult contemporary and adult alternative radio stations. "Sunny Came Home" is Colvin's only hit, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart for four weeks. The song was also a critical success, winning both Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year and was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In Canada, the song peaked at number three, while in Iceland, it reached number 20. "Sunny Came Home" was a commercial success, reaching number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 to become Colvin's first entry and first top-10 single on the chart. In the United Kingdom, the song was released on the same formats in May 1998. It is the opening track on her 1996 concept album, A Few Small Repairs, and was released as a CD and cassette single on June 24, 1997. That dude sucks." Sunny Came Home" is a folk-rock song by American musician Shawn Colvin. No one wants to be known as the guy who says music died in 1976. Point is, the moment people cut themselves off is the moment they stop growing. For reference, Zero 7 was the group that gave Sia her start, years before she struck out as a solo artist. Even though you would find their albums in the EDM section at the record store (remember those?) it has more in common with rock fusion, jazz, and funk then anything. And during those early years, most of the people around me hated it. Liked it long before it became mainstream with Deadmau5, Daft Punk, etc. For example, I’ve been obsessed with electronic music for decades. Whether you have a preference for traditional sounds or something new, there’s always something being put out there. There has never been a year where someone hasn’t created something of value. But we are also so creative, expressive, and driven to discover new domains. ![]() We do a lot of really selfish, horrible things. I have a mixed relationship with humanity. ![]() No need to try anything new or different”. Like can you imagine if the impressionist of Europe went “well there best paintings have already been done. Imagine cutting yourself off of all that amazing music. It’s a common trope to say “such and such was when music was REAL”. Or perhaps she really is crazy and guilty of the past crime (whether she is actually consciously aware of it or not) and is now back to take out the town people who got her sent away and locked up. Perhaps it was an arson that killed her family when she was young and now she has come back as an adult to sit in their burnt-out kitchen plotting her revenge. Perhaps they got her institutionalised by pinning a fatal arson on her and now she's returned to ruin/kill them via the same method of arson they had accused her of. Strike a match, light the sky, world is burning down, dry is good wind is better etc.). time for a few small repairs, came home with a mission etc.) by burning them all down, probably in their homes (ie. She is going to fix it all, as in she's going to right the past wrongs done to her (ie. She has their names and will not rise above her bitterness and need for vengeance (ie. Ophelia Maples 1y Ssuna I've always interpreted the song as Sunny came home to her hometown to take revenge on all the people who did her wrong and got her sent away (maybe to an asylum, hence her unsound mental state). ![]()
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