Here's Maren's story of how she fell in love with the Goos;
the first time I heard of the Goos was during the movie "City Of Angels". When I came home that night, I turned on the tv and I saw the "Iris" video. I couldn't remember songtitle or group, I was just too tired. I just kept in mind, it was from that movie. At that time I had "discovered" my fav radio station AFN, a relic of World War 2... This is the only radio station here in Germany where the GOOs get a high playtime. Now I got the title of the song - "Iris". But I couldn't keep the name of the group... it was too weird. A few days later I went again to see that movie... And as soon as I heard the first notes of "Iris", a smile crossed my face - I kinda fell in love with that voice and the song... On my b-day, I got the soundtrack. The first thing I did, was searching for "Iris"... Everyone said, "That's a cool song. Who is it by?" Except for me, no one else had ever heard before of the GOOs... I really liked "Iris", but as soon as "Slide" started to get some playtime on AFN, I was totally mad for this group... I didn't know ANYTHING about them, but I knew, I loved them... I was totally happy to get finally their cd "Dizzy Up The Girl", I played it over and over again. During the whole last year, my love for the GOOs grew - until late September, for which reasons ever my craziness wasn't that huge anymore... But then, one month later, something happened to me. Someone I used to be GOOd friends with hurted me deeply. He betrayed all the trust I had given to him, abused my friendship, kicked my ass - without having a real reason. All I felt was emptiness, pain and chill. I was totally broken and didn't want to go on. I have been suicidal for a couple of years now, but I never had the feeling of killing myself that strong before... I was the unwanted one. While I was searching for the song they should play at my funeral, I had two GOO songs on my list - "Iris" and "Black Balloon". Suddenly I grabbed their cds - I had only three of them at that time - and listened to them over and over. Especially "Hold Me Up" because I could really need somethign or someone to hold me up... To end this story - the GOOs have been my lifesaver. They helped me to get over the darkest and depressed episode of my life. And that is why I will love them till eternity. Without them, I doubt I would be here.
Thank you so much Maren!
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