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So many words for the broken heart
It is hard to see in a crimson love
So hard to breathe
Walk with me and maybe Backstreet Boys – Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
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The video for this song touches upon a lot of real-life situations with the band. Brian had undergone open heart surgery the previous year for a defect he has had since birth, so he’s shown in the operating room looking in.

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This album is dedicated to denniz pop

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Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely Backstreet Boys – Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
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“Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely” talks about heartbreak and how the narrator deals with being alone. It was nominated for a Grammy in 2001 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

The music video for this track was released on New Year’s Eve in 1999, with the following quote as the opening message:

This video is dedicated to Denniz POP, and to all those who have lost a loved one.

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I Want It That Way Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way
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“I Want It That Way” is about a strained relationship. The lyrical interpretation of this song, however, is notoriously muddled. They don’t necessarily make sense—and this is the subject of much the online discussion about this song. The lyrics were written by Max Martin and Andreas Carlsson, veteran Swedish hitmakers that began their careers at Cheiron Studios, which was largely responsible for the sound of pop in the ’90s. Carlsson talked to HitQuarters about writing this song:

‘I Want It That Way’ was a play with words. When Max came up with the original idea for the song, it already had the line ‘you are my fire, the one desire.’ We tried a million different variations on the second verse, and finally we had to go back to what was sounding so great, ‘you are my fire, the one desire.’ And then we changed it to ‘am I your fire, your one desire,’ which made absolutely no sense in combination with the chorus – but everybody loved it!

The song’s guitar riff was inspired by Metallica. There was an alternate version of the song recorded with more coherent lyrics, but the band preferred the original version of the song. Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson said that Martin’s English language skills were worse then, which is why the song’s lyrics don’t make a ton of sense. He told LA Weekly:

Ultimately the song really doesn’t really make much sense.

The video for this song, which was parodied by Blink-182, won a VMA for “Viewer’s Choice.”

It was nominated for 3 Grammys in 2000: “Song of the Year,” “Record of the Year,” and “Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.”

On August 19, 2011, China’s Ministry of Culture released a list of 100 songs, including this song, that were required to be removed from the Internet as they had been released without being subjected to a mandatory screening process conducted by Ministry officials.

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The song seems to make sense to me.

Wikipedia has this to say: “Many critics over the years have questioned the song’s lyrical meaning, mainly the line, "I want it that way.” Ben Westhoff of LA Weekly dissected the song, writing that its lyrical content “makes zero sense”. For Westhoff, “Mainly, the meaning of ‘that’ is at issue.” While analyzing the lyrics, Westhoff perceived that, “None of the sentiments in the chorus seem to go with any of the other ones. Even worse, no further explanation is given for what ‘that’ is.” The critic assumed that in the song “someone simply doesn’t like it when his lover expresses preferences, never wanting to hear when his girlfriend says she wants things in particular ways”

“That way” seems to me to be referring to that both lovers (at different times) want the other to be their fire and their one desire.
This feeling however is not mutually shared at the same time. Only after there has been heartbreak do the feelings of the other change. At that point however there has already been too much hurt so the partner doesn’t want to hear it anymore. It’s too late.

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I love this song you can’t diss this song like come on it’s the back street boys for crying out loud

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I think this song went to no. 1 in the charts, congrats boys!

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In the first part of the verse, he is trying to convince her, that she is his fire , and that is the way he wants it. However, he can’t reach to her heart, because she says, that he wants them to be two worlds apart, just like they are right now. So “that way” has two different meanings.

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Da Grym Reefer Da Grym Reefer
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Da Grym Reefer officially started his career using the moniker Renaissance featuring on a compilation called “Roastin N Toastin Vol. 1”, released in 2002.
He recorded his first solo song, a song titled “Frigid”. This song opened doors to feature on future releases.
He released “Live From H8erville…(Da Suic-Psycosis E.P.)” in 2005 and released his first full solo effort in 2006 “Volume 0: Phukk U (2 All Who Doubt)”.
The album was quietly released to a lukewarm reception but solidified him a reputation as an enigmatic artist. Da Grym Reefer proved he is a force to be reckoned by the time he released “Da Nickel”.
With a groundbreaking production style and cinematic vision for detail, Da Grym Reefer is one of few artist that could make a hit or deep thought provoking rap ballad and make the video for it as well. Da Grym Reefer’s music took a more conscious approach by the time he released “The Sum of All Fears” late 2011 and swiftly became his most critically acclaimed release to date.

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But then he started asking me about my mother.
Eddard Stark: Your mother?
Gendry: Who she was, what she looked like.
Eddard Stark: What did you tell him?
Gendry: She died when I was little. She had yellow hair. She'd sing to me sometimes.
Eddard Stark: Look at me. Get back to work, lad. If the day ever comes when that boy'd rather wield a sword than forge one, you send him to me.
Jory Cassel: Find anything?
Eddard Stark: King Robert's bastard son. Game of Thrones – Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things
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Gendry is played by Joe Dempsie, who originally auditioned for the part of Jon Snow, but didn’t get the role

Obviously I’ve got ‘bastard’ written all over me
- Joe Dempsie

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Not sure how that’s relevant to the focal point of this section – the fact that Gendry is implied to be one of King Robert’s bastards.

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The Mountain and the Viper Game of Thrones – The Mountain and the Viper
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Starring:

Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister
Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen
Kit Harington as Jon Snow
Aiden Gillen as Petyr Baelish
Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister
Alfie Allen as Theon Greyjoy
John Bradley as Samwell Tarly
Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark
Rose Leslie as Ygritte
Krisofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane
Hannah Murray as Gilly
Iwan Rheon as Ramsay Snow
Conleth Hill as Varys
Rory McCann as Sandor Clegane
Iaian Glen as Ser Jorah Mormont

Casting by:

Nina Gold
Robert Sterne

Costume Designer:

Michele Clapton

Music by:

Ramin Diawadi

Editor:

Tim Porter

Production Designer:

Deborah Riley

Director of Photography:

Anette Haellmigk

Co-Producer:

Bryan Cogman

Producers:

Chris Newman
Greg Spence

Co-Executive Producers:

George R.R. Martin
Guymon Casady
Vince Gerardis

Executive Producers:

Bernadette Caulfield
Frank Doelger
Carolyn Strauss
David Benioff
D.B. Weiss

Created by:

David Benioff
D.B. Weiss

Written for TV by:

David Benioff
D.B. Weiss

Directed by:

Alex Graves

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Peep the video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK4kQ8CFdUk

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• Full scripts Screen Genius – List of Screen Genius Content
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With movie scripts, the pages get too long to annotate and break (this is a bug that’s going to be fixed soon), so official full scripts are broken up into parts so that they can be broken down by you! There’s:

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Is this still true of the pages, that they have to be separated into parts?

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• Verified artists Screen Genius – List of Screen Genius Content
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There are lots of actors that are joining the Screen Genius movement! Some names include:

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