![]() ![]() ![]() Among mid-to-late ’90s hits (a big period for death on the Hot 100), “See” is much closer to Elton John’s “ Candle in the Wind 1997”-Diana, Princess of Wales, remains the ultimate celebrity angel-or the aforementioned 1998 smash “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, the quintessential mourn-you-till-I-join-you pop song. “See You Again” is about death in the abstract, and specifically, it’s about the death of a celebrity. “Crossroads” and “Missing” were both unabashedly corny and pop-friendly, but at their core they were about hip-hop’s backstory-its culture, its beefs, its self-destructive impulses. for a genre-movie actor), the current hit is also much less hip-hop-centric than its predecessors. What they all have in common is a sweet, almost churchy approach to melody: the Bone Thugs rhyming in “Crossroads” about how they “pray, every day, every day” widow Faith Evans singing mournfully on “Missing,” with a gospel ache, for her former husband the hymn-like piano lines that anchor “See.” But besides the fact that Paul Walker, as a song honoree, makes a strange analog to Eazy-E or Biggie (I’m having a hard time picturing anyone pouring out a 40-oz. ![]() It’s tempting to connect “See You Again” to these dead-homies chestnuts.
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