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Hold My Hand • Soundtrack single

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The lyrics:

 

 

Hold my hand, everything will be okay

I heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey

Pull me close, wrap me in your aching arms

I see that you're hurtin', why'd you take so long

 

To tell me you need me? I see that you're bleedin'

You don't need to show me again

But if you decide to, I'll ride in this life with you

I won't let go 'til the end

 

So cry tonight

But don't you let go of my hand

You can cry every last tear

I won't leave 'til I understand

Promise me, just hold my hand

 

Raise your head, look into my wishful eyes

That fear that's inside you will lift, give it time

I can see everything you're blind to now

Your prayers will be answered, let God whisper how

 

To tell me you need me? I see that you're bleedin'

You don't need to show me again

But if you decide to, I'll ride in this life with you

I won't let go 'til the end

 

So cry tonight

But don't you let go of my hand

You can cry every last tear

I won't leave 'til I understand

Promise you'll just hold my hand

 

Hold my hand, hold my—

Hold my hand, my hand

I'll be right here, hold my hand

Hold my hand, hold my—

Hold my hand, my hand

I'll be right here, hold my hand

 

I know you're scared and your pain is imperfect

But don't you give up on yourself

I heard a story, a girl, she once told me

That I would be happy again

 

Hold my hand

I heard from the heavens

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    MOTHER! (Still no idea what the hell Is "a Sports Emmy" but I'll take that)

Though ngl the intro SENT me. I thought I'd clicked on some ma-ma-pa-pa-pa perfect illusion glitch at first :lol:

!!

 

It alarmed me too :rofl:

 

Apparently the radio edit won't have this intro :')

I'm so disappointed. I expected something totally different. The song is not very good, I'm afraid. It is too shouty and dramatic. The lyrics are corny, whereas the melody could be much better. :no:

 

Her ballads from A Star Is Born were perfect. Bring Ally back!

It's definitely epic and it does the job, but my God it really drags on doesn't it?

 

Also that intro is so weird.

I'd say it needs to be an extra chorus long!! I'm happy it's not a under-3 minute Tiktok pandering song and more of an old-school solid ballad!

Gutted to say that I really can’t get into it at all. So disappointed :(
Good move in not releasing the video today, they should release it this Friday to boost the full week.

The reviews are coming in!

 

Lady Gaga's 'Hold My Hand' Is A Triumph Of Bombast

 

Lady Gaga has astonishing breadth.

The star's dazzling 2020 collection 'Chromatica' was a bold dose of future-facing pop music, an exhilarating, rule-breaking experience.

Following this, she shared a re-tool, re-vamped remix selection, before indulging her jazz passion alongside all-time-great Tony Bennett.

 

When not picking up awards for her acting, Lady Gaga has also been involved in another cinematic project: she's sculpted the main theme for Top Gun: Maverick.

The long-awaited follow up to the 80s original, she's teased her involvement online, even sharing a pic of her chatting backstage with Top Gun star Tom Cruise.

 

A song she has seemingly been working on for years, 'Hold My Hand' is a triumph of bombast, a true 80s torch song that matches the heft of Berlin's 'Take My Breath Away'.

At heart it's a soul song, one that finds Lady Gaga cutting loose as a vocalist, while dipping into the stadium-filling spirit of the original film's soundtrack.

 

https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/lady-gag...umph-of-bombast

 

 

 

Will Lady Gaga help Top Gun: Maverick take everyone’s breath away?

 

The soundtrack was essential to the original film’s popularity, and the singer’s powerful new ballad, Hold My Hand, could ensure that the long-awaited sequel flies high too

 

op Gun: Maverick has been beset by so many delays that, by this point, any fool can anticipate the whole movie beat for beat. There’ll be tons and tons of cutting edge aerial photography, complete with shots of actors getting their faces squished into mush by G-force. There’ll be plenty of knowingly nostalgic nods to the original, too, with old characters making long overdue returns. But now for something few saw coming: the film will also include a Lady Gaga power ballad.

 

Lady Gaga just shared a new song called Hold My Hand. It is definitely from Top Gun: Maverick because, in the official video, not only are the words “Lady Gaga” written in the official Top Gun font, but there’s also a black and white photograph of Gaga being brought to the point of orgasm by the flank of an aeroplane.

 

The song itself is pretty good. It’s bombastic and emotional, and includes everything you could possibly want from a Lady Gaga power ballad, in that it sounds like Lady Gaga is shouting it at someone who just toppled over the railings of a cruise ship. “When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t even realise the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in,” Gaga wrote on Twitter. Which is fine. But what we don’t know about Hold My Hand is how it will feature in the movie. And, without exaggeration, this could be integral to the movie’s success.

 

The easy thing to do would be to just chuck it on at the end. So Tom Cruise completes his mission, salutes his superiors who now look upon him with newfound gratitude, pauses by a fighter jet to stroke it as one would a horse, clambers in, takes off and, as the jet speeds off to destinations unknown, the credits roll and Hold My Hand comes on.

 

However, this would be a profoundly un-Top Gunny thing to do. Because although Top Gun became a phenomenon in 1986 for a variety of reasons – including Tom Cruise’s innate star power and all the zippy shots of fighter jets in action – the main reason was its soundtrack.

 

The Top Gun soundtrack, at the time, was perfect. It was a flawless mix of overdriven 1980s pop, composed and performed by figures who would come to embody the decade as a whole, and nostalgic oldies for anyone who might find all the synthy vamping a bit too much. So you have Kenny Loggins performing Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock’s Danger Zone. You have Berlin belting out Take My Breath Away. You have Harold Faltermeyer’s deathless Top Gun Anthem. But you also have (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay and You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’. The soundtrack was such a sensation that it went nine times platinum in the US alone and Take My Breath Away won an Oscar.

 

Key to this was the way that each song was baked into crucial scenes. The entire cast sang You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ at Kelly McGillis. Take My Breath Away is the sex scene. Then there’s Playing with the Boys, which effectively gets its own instantly iconic music video spliced inside the film. It is impossible to separate Top Gun from its soundtrack.

 

It seems unlikely that the same will be said for the sequel. Trailers for Top Gun: Maverick have so far been soundtracked by Top Gun Anthem, and apparently Danger Zone will also make an appearance. Other than that, it seems as if there will be a straight score composed by Faltermeyer and Hans Zimmer. It’s bound to be good and evocative and everything, but unless a huge amount of current bangers have been hiding in plain sight, it won’t be the same.

 

That is unless Lady Gaga’s song is used to the best of its ability. If it is woven into the fabric of the film itself, ideally in a scene where Tom Cruise is begging a young recruit to hold his hand to save him from mortal danger, then all might just be saved.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/0...ck-hold-my-hand

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