![]() ![]() “She’s someone who’s very clearly in control of her product and what she does.”Įnya got lumped into the “New Age” genre, which the Grammys canonized in 1987 and which quickly became a pejorative term-gobbling up everyone from Yanni to George Winston and John Tesh. “Speaking frankly here, I do think it’s what happens when you have, in large part, anyone who can be best described as a ‘female auteur,’” says Ned Raggett, a music critic who gave Watermark its glowing review on AllMusic. So why did “Orinoco Flow” become a punch line in the first place? The last laugh, it should be said, belongs to Enya, who is one of the wealthiest musicians in Europe (£104 million)-despite having released only six albums since 1988, never touring, and hardly ever performing live. it’s nearly always called upon for a laugh. From a Season 1 South Park parody (“It’s cheesy, but lame and eerily soothing at the same time!”), to Steve Coogan singing it in a 2002 episode of I’m Alan Partridge, to Shrek Forever After’s cheeky deployment under Rumpelstiltskin’s call for a mob to bring him Shrek, to the scene in David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo where Stellan Skarsgård turns on a reel-to-reel tape of it as he begins to torture a bound, mid-asphyxiation Daniel Craig. īut after the initial wave of unironic popularity, it mostly stuck-at least in pop culture terms-as a punch line. MTV played the music video on rotation, both the single and video were nominated for Grammys, and the song became a bona fide phenomenon. 1 hit in the U.K., and a few months later it charted in the U.S. (It was the lead single off her proper debut album, Watermark, which dropped a few weeks earlier.) The song became a no. His entrance music? Naturally, that ethereal chorus: “Sail away, sail away, sail away!”Įnya sailed into the culture’s consciousness on October 15, 1988, when “Orinoco Flow” first crested British airwaves. when Jake theatrically bursts into court. ![]() Cut to a full courtroom, and the judge impatiently asking where detective Peralta is. Jake (Andy Samberg) and Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) were awaiting the fateful hearing in a trial for a crime they didn’t commit the outlook was grim, and so, sitting in a parked car about to leave for the courthouse, a gloomy Jake makes a special request: “Just put on anything by Enya.” He corrects himself: “No, not anything-‘Orinoco Flow.’ On repeat.” Then, a witness suddenly appears and offers to testify and save the day. There I was, minding my own business, catching up on Season 4 of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. ![]()
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