Goo Goo Dolls: Black Balloon

I have had the song “Black Balloon” by the Goo Goo Dolls stuck in my head for days now. And I have absolutely no earthly idea why.

I knew of the band, and recognize a lot of their songs. But it’s not like I ever really listened to them outside of catching their music on the radio. Back when I used to listen to radio stations in the car.

Their music makes me circle around… 2000? Around the time that I moved from Columbus, OH to Chicago and started commuting out to the suburbs for work. There’s a pocket of pop/alternative music that filled a year or two there, mostly listened to while I was in a car heading out to Barrington.

And for some reason that I really can’t explain, this song has lodged itself in my brain. To where I’m looping it in the background. There are moments in the morning when I wake up, and the lyrics are going through my head even before I’m fully dressed and awake. It’s weird.

In a way, this is a bit of nostalgia I guess? But it feels so tangential. It’s like having an affinity for the commercials that used to play between old Saturday morning cartoons. Not the cartoons, the commercials. Weird, right?

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