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Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed [Official Video] Hotney 7 Streams • 3 years ago

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Directed by Mia Barnes
Produced by Roisín Audrey Moloney
Executive Producer Nathan Scherrer
Production Company Freenjoy

Commissioned by Dan Curwin
Record Label Atlantic Records
Styling & Grooming Liberty Shaw
Styling Hillary Owen

Service Company LS Productions
Service line producer Ellen De Faux
Service line producer Marii Stoltsen

Cinematography Natasha Braier
Production Design Sarah Asmail
1st AD Rawdon De Fresnes
Camera Operator Ossie Mclean
Gaffer Peter Taylor
Key Grip Davey Logan
Edited by Chiao Chen
Sound Design Christian Stropko
VFX by Mathematic
Colourist Dante Pasquinelli
Colour studio Ethos

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Lyrics:

I know it’s a bad idea
But how can I help myself
Been inside for most this year
And I thought a few drinks they might help

It’s been a while my dear
Dealing with the cards life dealt
I’m still holding back these tears
While my friends are somewhere else

I pictured this year a little bit different when it hit February
I step in the bar, it hit me so hard
Oh how can it be this heavy?
Every song reminds me you’re gone
And I feel the lump form in my throat
‘Coz I’m here alone

Just dancing with my eyes closed
‘Coz everywhere I look I still see you
Time is moving so slow
And I don’t know what else that I can do
So I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed
So I’ll keep dancing with my

Delusion is here again
And I think you’ll come home soon
A word brings me right back in
Then it’s only me that’s in this room
I guess I could just pretend
The colours are more than blue
But I lost more than my friend
I can’t help but missing you

I pictured this month a little bit different no one is ever ready
And when it unfolds you get in a hole
Oh how can it be this heavy?
Everything changes, nothing’s the same
Except the truth is now you’re gone
And life just goes on

So I’m dancing with my eyes closed
‘Coz everywhere I look I still see you
Time is moving so slow
And I don’t know what else that I can do
So I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed
So I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed
Oh I’ll keep dancing with my

They’re shutting the bar
They’re cleaning the floor
And everyone is already home
But I’m on my own

Still dancing with my eyes closed
‘Coz everywhere I look I still see you
Time is moving so slow
And I don’t know what else that I can do
So I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed
Oh I’ll keep dancing with my eyes closed
Oh I’ll keep dancing with my

She Made Her Label $170M, All She Got Was $1900…. Hotney 17 Streams • 5 months ago

The story of Alannah Myles, best known for the song Black Velvet

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Title: The Tragic Story of The One-Hit Wonder Who Wasn't

Some songs are like time machines. In 1990, one of them was “Black Velvet,” a smoky, blues‑rock track that turned Canadian singer Alannah Myles into a global star. The song hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, won a Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and helped her debut album sell millions worldwide. By all accounts, she should have been set for life.

Instead, the industry that finally embraced her nearly destroyed her. Behind the scenes, Myles had signed a brutal contract loaded with “recoupable” expenses for recording, videos, touring, and marketing — debts she had to pay back before seeing real royalties. She later estimated the label earned well over a hundred million dollars from her records, while she struggled to pay rent and took side jobs just to get by. She has said she didn’t receive a meaningful royalty check for “Black Velvet” until 2008, almost two decades after the song topped the charts.

Her path to that hit had been long and stubbornly independent. Born Alannah Byles in Toronto, she grew up comfortable but determined to make it on her own. She wrote songs as a teenager, played grimy Southern Ontario clubs, and rebranded herself as Alannah Myles while doing modeling, makeup work, and small acting roles to fund her music. Partnering with songwriter Christopher Ward and producer David Tyson, she chased a blues‑rock identity that Canadian labels repeatedly rejected. A three‑song demo to Atlantic in New York finally landed her a six‑album deal in 1987.

Her 1989 debut album was huge at home, producing multiple Top 40 hits and becoming the best‑selling debut album in Canadian history. “Black Velvet” – written by Ward and Tyson as an Elvis Presley tribute after Ward rode a fan bus to Memphis – was the track that broke her internationally. Released in the U.S. after “Love Is,” it climbed slowly before exploding to number one and going top ten in over a dozen countries. At the same time, her label angered her by commissioning a competing country version by Robin Lee, which muddied her ownership of the song in the public eye.

The pressure for a repeat was immediate. Her 1992 follow‑up, Rockinghorse, underperformed in the U.S. but went multi‑platinum in Canada, giving her another number‑one single and a second Grammy nomination. Still, label politics, media stories painting her as “difficult,” and the strain of constant touring took a toll. She cancelled tours for health reasons, cycled through managers, and watched as her momentum faded internationally.

Myles eventually left Atlantic in the late ’90s and signed with Miles Copeland’s Ark 21, gaining more creative control but far less commercial visibility. For years she survived through smaller‑scale releases, overseas deals, television work, and live shows, even as “Black Velvet” kept spinning on radio without truly enriching her. A libel suit against a major Canadian newspaper over claims of cocaine addiction was settled in 2001, reportedly with a substantial payout — ironically one of the biggest financial wins of her career.

When her contract finally allowed it, she re‑recorded “Black Velvet” for her independent album Black Velvet and later retooled it again on 85 bpm, finally owning versions of the song that paid her directly. Chronic health problems, including serious spinal damage and autoimmune issues, have since limited her ability to tour, but she continues to write and record on her own terms.

Calling Alannah Myles a “one‑hit wonder” misses the point. She had multiple Canadian hits, a second Grammy‑nominated album, and a career that’s lasted decades. “Black Velvet” was a phenomenon so huge it obscured the rest of her work — and a song that nearly ruined her even as it made her immortal. In 2021, it was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, cementing its place in rock history and her legacy as far more than a trivia‑question one‑off.

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