Line #33 Music/SavageGarden


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Savage_Garden_6549.jpg]]
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3	->''I want to stand with you on a mountain\
4	I want to bathe with you in the sea\
5	I want to lay like this forever\
6	Until the sky falls down on me''
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8	Savage Garden (1994 - 2001) were an Australian duo, consisting of Music/DarrenHayes (the brunette) as vocalist and Daniel Jones (the blond) as instrumentalist, whose brand of soft-rock mixed with straightforward pop was a surprise international hit as the 1990s exited the {{Grunge}}[=/=]GangstaRap era and re-embraced bubblegum pop. Though they only released two studio albums (in an era where artists didn't shell out an UpdatedRerelease to tide fans over), they had many successful singles including "I Want You", "To the Moon and Back", "Truly Madly Deeply" and "I Knew I Loved You", and maintain a cult following to this day.
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10	After splitting in 2001, Darren Hayes continued with a solo career to some success.
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12	!!Discography:
13	* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Savage Garden]]'' (1997)
14	* ''Affirmation'' (1999)
15	* ''[[GreatestHitsAlbum Truly Madly Deeply: The Best of Savage Garden]]'' (2005)
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17	!!"Tropely, Madly, Deeply":
18	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The "chicka cherry cola" line in "I Want You".
19	* AmbiguouslyGay: Darren Hayes, before he officially came out around 2005-ish.
20	* {{Anaphora}}: The TitleTrack from ''Affirmation'' is a series of (sometimes controversial) statements preceded by "I believe".
21	* AntiLoveSong: "Gunning Down Romance".
22	* BrokenBird: The girl described in "To The Moon And Back" fits this to a tee.
23	* DomesticAbuse: "Two Beds And A Coffee Machine" is about a woman and her child dealing with the aftermath of domestic abuse.
24	* DivergentCharacterEvolution: The song "She" started as a sparse piano song in 1994 (released years later on The Singles), had new Spanish-influenced music written for its 1995 demo (leaked) and the music of said 1995 demo was reworked for a totally new song "I'll Bet He Was Cool" (a B-side) in 1996. Whilst the 1994 and 1996 recordings stand alone, the 1995 shows their link.
25	* GriefSong: "You Can Still Be Free".
26	* InTheStyleOf: From the first LP, "Violet" in the style of Music/{{INXS}} and "Break Me Shake Me" is in the style of Music/MichaelJackson ([[Music/HistoryPastPresentAndFutureBookI [=HIstory=]]] era).
27	** From "Affirmation", "I Knew I Loved You" is deliberately in the style of a Music/BackstreetBoys ballad - it was initially a jab at the record company's demand for a commercial hit...then ended up stereotyping the band.
28	* IWantSong: "The Animal Song" expresses the singer's desire to live a more natural, stress-free way of life
29	--> 'Cause I want to live like animals
30	--> Careless and free like animals
31	* ListSong: "Affirmation" is a list of things that the lead singer believes in.
32	* LittleBitBeastly: Both male and female versions appear in the "Crash and Burn" video, which include, but not limited to: Fireflies, Ostriches, and Spiders.
33	* LyricalColdOpen: "Promises".
34	* MotorMouth: "I Want You" is a prime example. The few clear lyrics, "Chick-a-cherry cola", are often mistaken for the title.
35	* ShoutOut: Savage Garden was named for a line in Creator/AnneRice's ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'':
36	--> ''The mind of each man is a savage garden.''
37	* {{Overcrank}}: Often used in their videos, especially in "Truly Madly Deeply".
38	* ParentalNeglect: Among the woes of the BrokenBird in "To The Moon And Back" is her parents' absence from her life.
39	--> Momma never loved her much and daddy never keeps in touch
40	* SillyLoveSongs: A ''whole lot'' of them. It was what they were known for in the eyes of the general public, even though they had recorded harder-edged pop-rock songs like "Break Me, Shake Me" or "Memories Are Designed to Fade". To a general audience, they were basically TheNineties' answer to Music/AirSupply. Not too surprising, given they worked with Charles Fisher who produced for that group.
41	** It should be noted, that most of the silly love songs had Ambiguous Genders, which could be applied to just about any kind of relationship, Sans for a few songs, like "I Knew I Loved You".
42	*** The first album really only has Truly Madly Deeply and Santa Monica to fit this description, but ''Affirmation'' has a whole lot more, due to the band aiming for a radio hit. "I Knew I Loved You" was frequently mistaken for the Music/BackstreetBoys or Music/{{NSYNC}} when it came out, such is its overt poppishness.
43	* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Apart from the chorus, the only lyric most people know from "I Want You" is [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal "chicka cherry cola"]].
44	* SpecialGuest: A young Creator/KirstenDunst plays the LoveInterest in the "I Knew I Loved You" video.
45	* StockShoutOuts: The chord progression from "I Want You" has become a staple of ElectronicMusic's romantic side as one of the go-to riffs for upbeat and slightly nostalgic SillyLoveSongs and their trance equivalents.
46	* VideoFullOfFilmClips: The video for "The Animal Song" is intercut with clips from the Creator/JulietteLewis movie ''The Other Sister''.
47	* YouAreNotAlone[=/=]AFriendInNeed: "Crash and Burn".
48	* {{Zeerust}}: The video of "I Want You".

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