about "A Thousand Miles", Vanessa Carlton said: "This song is about a crush I had on a Juilliard student. I would never talk to this person. I was very shy. like there is no way in god’s creation that this would ever happen. And so the idea that like, you have a better chance of falling up than ever having a relationship with this person. I can’t say that person’s name because they’re like a famous actor, and I don’t want to say it"
when asked what kind of bird she'd be, Nelly Furtado said "I have pigeons that keep leaving eggs in my planters. We’re on our fourth set of baby pigeons now. Maybe I was a pigeon in a past life or maybe a finch or condor or even a pterodactyl – they’re big and strong and getting places"
Pov: It's 2002 and Draco Malfoy is all in his feelings, unironically sing-sobbing the lyrics of 'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton because it reminds him of his nemesis/hero/obsession/crush.
Darlin’ / Vanessa Carlton, VICE / Gleipnir - Walton Ford / Bite The Hand - boygenius / Pia Mia / Wieslaw Walkuski / Katharine Isabelle / visualamor on ig / Damn Dog - Manic Street Preachers / The Pope’s Exorcist / unknown / unknown / Marc Burckhardt / The Hand That Feeds - The Crane Wives / x
[Image description: a collage of photos of the 10 musicians and musical groups featured in this poll. In order from left to right, top to bottom: Nickelback, Ashanti, Nelly, Nelly and Kelly Rowland, The Calling, Vanessa Carlton, Linkin Park, Fat Joe, Usher, Puddle of Mudd. End description]
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We're starting to see post-grunge start to take the place of alternative rock in the pop charts, with the rising popularity of Nickelback, The Calling, Puddle of Mudd, Creed, 3 Doors Down, and other similar acts. Despite the immense popularity (or perhaps because of it), post-grunge continues to be a controversial label among rock listeners for the genre's tendency to favor pop-friendly melodies and "simpler" subject matters.
Speaking of controversial rock subgenres, this year also contains a single from one of the best-selling debut records at the time (going 12 times Platinum), Linkin Park's In the End off the album Hybrid Theory. And with that (or parallel to that) came the rise of nu metal and rap metal in the mainstream. It's notable because, at least not since glam metal in the 80's, there hadn't been a subgenre of metal that really blew up with mainstream non-metal audiences to the point where it came to define that moment in time for many. (I know Metallica was able to spread past the confines of genre listeners, but that didn't really lead to a thrash or heavy metal craze among people who wouldn't have already been predispositioned to listen to it).
Nu metal is also incredibly fascinating to me personally because it really shows how "genre" can differ whether you're approaching it from a music-listening perspective or a marketing one. If I had to boil "nu metal" down to a simple set of characteristics, it would be "a subgenre of metal that favors shorter runtimes, takes heavy influences from hip-hop sound and culture, and is often associated with the early 2000s". But if you asked marketing teams at the time, "nu metal" would probably be defined as, "the popular rock music we can't market to the alternative rock crowd". That could be why, to this day, you often see bands like Linkin Park, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Staind, System of a Down, and even Evanescence lumped together under the descriptor, even though I think they don't all have much in common other than the time period, song length, and popularity. If you're marketing on the radio, it makes more sense to squish them together instead of trying to split hairs over subgenres. Only a few (and by "few" I mean "one") of these artists I've listed will be featured in future polls, but I wanted to ramble about this anyway.
Anyway, despite the immense amount of money brought in by albums like Hybrid Theory, the record industry was still scrambling to find ways to get people to pay for music again. In 2002, Nokia released the first polyphonic ringtone, which allowed the phone to play several notes at once. With cellphones growing in popularity, this may be the solution the record industry was looking for.
Don't ask me how I found out, but the song "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton fits the 'Interview with the Vampire' trailer 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙏𝙊 𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝘿 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝘿.
The British Navy has used "Oops!... I Did it Again" to scare off Somali pirates
about "A Thousand Miles", Vanessa Carlton said: "This song is about a crush I had on a Juilliard student. I would never talk to this person. I was very shy. like there is no way in god’s creation that this would ever happen. And so the idea that like, you have a better chance of falling up than ever having a relationship with this person. I can’t say that person’s name because they’re like a famous actor, and I don’t want to say it"
The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien / "If You Go, I'll Follow You", Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton / "Wherever You Will Go", The Calling / "A Thousand Miles", Vanessa Carlton / "I Will Follow You Into The Dark", Death Cab for Cutie / The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller / Captain America: The First Avenger dir. Joe Johnston / "I Don't Wanna Break", Christina Perri / "Sea of Lovers", Christina Perri / Prince's Gambit, C.S. Pacat / "Cold Water", Major Lazer, Justin Bieber & MØ / "Lucky Strike", Troye Sivan / "Lover", Taylor Swift / Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia / "Catch Fire", The Veronicas
posted this on twitter when i realized it last night but i figure there’s an audience for it here too—
above is my evidence proving that there is a genuine, actual, realistic and non-zero chance that vanessa carlton wrote her iconic banger “a thousand miles” about glenn “i went to juilliard to play a deranged sociopath for laughs with my whole chest” howerton