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“When You Love” by Sinéad O’Connor: Simple, Forgotten, Yet Poignant
Finding beauty in the unexpected, the Rugrats in Paris edition
When I began a publication devoted to music, I’ll admit there were about a thousand songs I pictured myself covering before beginning to explore the soundtrack to Rugrats in Paris: The Movie. Between The Beatles, Lupe Fiasco, Coltrane, Green Day, Patrick Watson, Pink Floyd, Tame Impala, The Talking Heads, Bill Withers, Sidney Bechet, and all of the hundreds of artists I discovered in my life, it was difficult to pick where exactly my first few bases would be.
But then, music moves you at unexpected times and in surprising places. So in a way, it feels apt that among the first few songs I explore should be one I’ve randomly disinterred in my dig through the annals of 2000s Nickelodeon. (This was, of course, for scholarly reasons.)
So perhaps more important than starting this dive into the world of music-related writing in an obvious place… is starting it in a decidedly weird one.
In reexploring what makes Rugrats so unique, I found myself touched by the powerful simplicity of the song that plays over the speakers at a mother son dance in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie…
