Avicii's Broken Arrows
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Electronic, Techno & Dance
BOOMSHIT — 8 months ago(July 20, 2025 06:21 PM)
I never really listened to him when he was popular so I'm just now hearing this. it's not his best song and has his generic Avicii sound to it but I really enjoyed the hook and the video
Chris Parton of Rolling Stone described Brown's vocals as "crystal-clear" and the song's hook as "a cross between a game-show theme song and something from Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers"
for some reason I am reminded of the nyan cat song when I hear the hook.
and of course the music video tells a relatable story that is both sad and heart warming
The music video starts with the caption: "Inspired by a True Story" and is located in Fairmont, a fictitious location in California in 1967, where a struggling athlete lives alone with his daughter in a trailer. The athlete is chastised by his trainer for not achieving enough on the field. The athlete is shown descending into alcoholism and despair. But the athlete is inspired again by his daughter's zeal and acrobatics to invent a new technique in jumping, leading to a gold medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Although talking about Fosbury, the video displays however a newspaper clipping, attributing it to a fictional American high jump Olympic athlete named Richard Radomsky in the video
nyan cat just in case I'm not the only one
jestergooning
️ — 8 months ago(July 20, 2025 08:59 PM)