Resonate song review

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What do you think of the song and video for Resonate

The video makes me want to puke, but I like the song
20
63%
Song and video both suck
7
22%
have not heard the song, or seen the video
2
6%
No Steve Perry, No Journey
3
9%
The video adds to the charm of the song
0
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Total votes : 32

Resonate song review

Postby Abitaman » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:29 am

If you want to like Journey‘s new song ‘Resonate,’ don’t watch the music video the band recently released of Neal Schon pawing at girlfriend Michaele Salahi. The borderline soft-porn clip for the song will be hard to purge from your senses. It lingers like the scent of bad milk.

There really isn’t much to criticize other than the intensely personal feel of lyrics that must cause singer Arnel Pineda to want to shower immediately after singing them. It’s like watching strangers grope on the city bus. Sure it’s romantic and cute at first, but after awhile you want to pay for them to get a hotel room.

“When I’m alone / I keep replaying the look of love in your eyes / When I miss home / I swear I die every time we say good bye / Like a gentle wind you cross my mind / I lose myself, I lose all sense of time,” Pineda sings during the first verse. On paper, they’re laying it on a little thick, but throughout the song the band stays true to the music they’ve crafted for decades. It’s a big, powerful rock ballad that Schon slobbers all over with his personal story.

“I feel you presence all around me / On the same frequency / It’s all our love can be / When we resonate / Resonate,” they sing during the chorus. “Even though we’re miles apart / I reach for you and there you are / You bow the strings that move my heart / Resonate / Resonate.”

The majority of the band’s fans may not be as familiar with the details of the Schon/Salahi courtship. That’s a blessing. The rest of us will do our best to get over it and enjoy this pretty rock-solid single from the band’s ‘Eclipse’ album.

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Postby Abitaman » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:32 am

The gave the song 4 out of 5
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Postby steveo777 » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:40 am

I like the song, hate the video.
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Postby Gideon » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:27 am

Pretty much.
I avoid the video, but the song is in my Journey all time top five.
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Postby Rick » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:36 am

Shit. I was singing the wrong lyrics. :lol: :oops: :lol:
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Re: Resonate song review

Postby Navarro » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:54 am

Abitaman wrote:If you want to like Journey‘s new song ‘Resonate,’ don’t watch the music video the band recently released of Neal Schon pawing at girlfriend Michaele Salahi. The borderline soft-porn clip for the song will be hard to purge from your senses. It lingers like the scent of bad milk.

There really isn’t much to criticize other than the intensely personal feel of lyrics that must cause singer Arnel Pineda to want to shower immediately after singing them. It’s like watching strangers grope on the city bus. Sure it’s romantic and cute at first, but after awhile you want to pay for them to get a hotel room.

“When I’m alone / I keep replaying the look of love in your eyes / When I miss home / I swear I die every time we say good bye / Like a gentle wind you cross my mind / I lose myself, I lose all sense of time,” Pineda sings during the first verse. On paper, they’re laying it on a little thick, but throughout the song the band stays true to the music they’ve crafted for decades. It’s a big, powerful rock ballad that Schon slobbers all over with his personal story.

“I feel you presence all around me / On the same frequency / It’s all our love can be / When we resonate / Resonate,” they sing during the chorus. “Even though we’re miles apart / I reach for you and there you are / You bow the strings that move my heart / Resonate / Resonate.”

The majority of the band’s fans may not be as familiar with the details of the Schon/Salahi courtship. That’s a blessing. The rest of us will do our best to get over it and enjoy this pretty rock-solid single from the band’s ‘Eclipse’ album.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/journey- ... ng-review/


Song isn't bad, if fact, pretty damn good. The video is just --wrong!
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Postby Abitaman » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:21 pm

Rick wrote:Shit. I was singing the wrong lyrics. :lol: :oops: :lol:


I thought the same thing..
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Postby Red13JoePa » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:41 pm

Killer, killer song Resonate.

Where's this "ballad" label coming from though? Read it before about some of the songs on Eclipse, maybe Chain Of Love as well. :?
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Postby Gideon » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:33 am

Red13JoePa wrote:Killer, killer song Resonate.

Where's this "ballad" label coming from though? Read it before about some of the songs on Eclipse, maybe Chain Of Love as well. :?


People stopped listening after the minute of piano work, I guess.
I love Jon's work on COL, but it does kinda drag on for a little too long.
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Postby scarab » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:41 am

best song on a very mediocre Eclipse - should have been released 1st instead of the painfully boring CoH

Sep Ways video is a Masterpiece now compared to Resonate video
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Postby Moose » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:05 pm

The song is good; the video is an utter embarrassment…mortifying.
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Postby Lula » Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:11 pm

i cannot see the video or hear the song! grrr :x
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Postby steveo777 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:35 pm

Lula wrote:i cannot see the video or hear the song! grrr :x


1/2 of that is a good thing! ;)

How are you and Wyatt doing Lula? I hope it's getting better for you. We miss Dean so much! :(
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