Don't we all? I guess so, we all want to be adored. Well, some 30 years ago The Stone Roses released their debut album and one of its hit singles was "I Wanna
Be Adored", to me one of the earliest moments of Brit Pop movement that took over the 1990's with themselves being a great part of it along with Oasis, The Verve,
Radiohead, Blur and many others. Minor exaggeration of mine but I see it that way, it sounds exactly like the movement would become but fresh, early developments, baby steps. The music video here consists of band performing the song behind dark plains and mountains, slow motion movements and the lead
singer lip-synching the song with the microphone way below his mouth - yet it's an iconic image. Lyrics are quite reduced and repetitive but the instruments make it more special.
I wasn't much fan of the group but through the years I started to enjoy them a lot, and this clip exactly, all mysterious and slightly sinister - the song
begins in such a dark mode - hooked me up from the beginning and that became my favorite song of theirs (along with "She Bangs the Drums", also from the same album).
The video's athmosphere, the visuals, the location and its simplicity conquered me and I never forgot about it. As for the song, it feels like an hymn of a generation
that were crossing a decade from another and they wanted some change - enough with alienation, enough with pain and desperation, we want the blessings and joy life can
bring us - we need to feel accepted, or in the highest form of praises and to quote a poet "To indeed be a god!" because only gods can be adored. So why can't we? Just
my analysis that goes in contrast with the environment presented where The Stone Roses perform in this beautiful yet haunting place where one can interpret as being
a heaven or some form of hell - either way, they want to be adored and without selling their souls. It's magical/spiritual stuff that you have to see it and feel it
to form a whole image. That's the one I've got, and you're free to form yours. Great stuff. 9/10
