Don’t you just love a good heroin song? Me too! In fact, original artists The La’s released “There She Goes” as their single four times. FOUR TIMES! Wow, talk about love.
There’s nothing much to the track, really, but it’s still really catchy and a great listen. The song starts out with a guitar melody that introduces jingle bells and a soft drum beat. Though it sounds soft, the beat is uptempo, therefore livening it up a bit. Lead Singer Lee Mavers comes in with the instantly recognizable, half falsetto “There she blows/There she blows again/Pulsing through my veins/And I just can’t contain/This feeling that remains.”
The sound is mostly the same throughout until the bridge where it slows down for a line or two, but it picks up where it left off and pretty much stays the same. Not much of a formula to this track but still a pretty good one as the acoustic guitar and lightly distorted melody dance around. It sort of gives you the feeling you’re in some sort of fairy-pixie land.
I wasn’t into music back when the La’s were around, but the version of this song I do remember is the one performed by Sixpence None the Richer. Their version of “There She Goes” is what I think of when I hear about this song; even just the phrase. This Texan band (I thought they were British until now) released their version of this song a year after they were catapulted into the spotlight with their massive hit “Kiss Me.”
In the American “There She Goes,” the guitars are a little more layered as the acoustic plays chord progressions instead of plucking the melody on individual strings. The electric guitars echo in with the melody but it’s more of a mash of guitars as opposed to individual melodies. I don’t say that in a bad way. It actually enhances that pixie vibe because of everything going on. Lead Singer Leigh Bingham Nash doesn’t do anything special to differentiate herself from Mavers, so the vocals sound pretty much the same.
I honestly don’t see too much of a difference in these two songs other than the fact that Sixpence’s sounds a little more layered and more produced, but the latter could be because of time and improvements in technology. Neither of these versions suck, they’re just not that different from each other. As for me, I have to go with Sixpence’s version because that’s the one I remember singing along to.