Beyond the Hit
Bal1ntOne song. What we remember. What happened after. Stories behind the songs you thought you already knew, and the people who never quite escaped them. Free to read. If you enjoy the stories, you can help keep Beyond the Hit going with a paid subscription.
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Season 2 Finale Recap: More Plot Than Chorus
Season Two is done. Eighteen reminders that the story behind a hit can be stranger than the song itself. Most of what I found I didn’t know when I started digging.
That’s the whole idea of this project. You know the song – or you think you...
Enya: Orinoco Flow (1988)
Nobody was supposed to have a single from this. Enya’s label chairman asked for one as a joke.
THE STORY YOU KNOW
That layered, cascading voice, the “sail away” refrain, a video that looks like a painting come to life. It went...
Centuries Old, Number One
In 1990 a Romanian-Austrian producer called Michael Cretu put a drum machine under a 1976 recording of a Munich choir singing Gregorian chant and called the result Enigma. ‘Sadeness’ went to number one across most of Europe, and made the US...
Titles That Lie
More often than you think.
Led Zeppelin’s ‘Kashmir’ has nothing to do with the region or the fibre cashmere. Robert Plant wrote it during a drive through the Moroccan Sahara. The word just sounded right, distant and mysterious enough for w...
Las Ketchup: Aserejé (2002)
A drunk man butchered the words to his favorite song. The butchered version became bigger hit than the original.
THE STORY YOU KNOW
Three sisters, a nonsense chorus, and a dance that took over every wedding and school disco in...
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