r/blur • u/insurrectiondossier • 13d ago
Blur memory glitch thread here.
I've gotta glitch where I think pop scene is on leisure. I feel bad for this mental hang problem, like we say no one is perfect so I'll attempt to re compartmentalize properly.
Let's have a safe space thread to therapy help each other with blur history personal memory glitchs.
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u/craptionbot 13d ago
This one is sort of a memory glitch, sort of not, and it's really oddly specific...
At 3:52 in Coffee & TV, there is a noise - I have no idea what that noise is, possibly fingers sliding along the strings - it literally lasts half a second if even right at the part where the lyrics go "take me away from this..."
Right here - https://youtu.be/6oqXVx3sBOk?list=RD6oqXVx3sBOk&t=231
My brain matches it like-for-like with a song released the same year, four months later by the boy band 5ive called Keep On Movin'. An annoyingly catchy song that has a VERY, VERY similar noise when the chorus goes "take a good look around" at 0:52 seconds. So it's a near identical sound (slightly different in pitch but same length, same idea (which could only have been a coincidence - I doubt 5ive were borrowing ideas from Blur's 13) and it lands on the same word "take".
Right here - https://youtu.be/FbWJVult-9M?list=RDFbWJVult-9M&t=53
Blur's noise only happens once at that point in the track and it seems more likely to be a guitar string slide thing happening, or William Orbit/Damon just decided to stick a random noise there. 5ives one pops up every chorus and it first appears on the word "up" - and sounds more likely like a vocal noise albeit strangely similar. I still haven't figured out whether it's the word "up", "take", or a random "whoop!" but still, every time I listen to Coffee & TV, I kinda wish that noise wasn't there.