“Yeah, I Like You” by Goo Goo Dolls
“Yeah, I Like You” is the lead-off single for a 2022 Goo Goo Dolls album titled “Chaos in Bloom”. Concurrently, the artists that make up this act are slowly but surely nearing senior citizenship, as in being tenured musicians. And beyond that, based on their own words, “Chaos in Bloom” is a a pretty-deep outing.
So when you combine those two realities what we get is a song like “Yeah, I Like You”, which relies significantly on sophisticated metaphors, some of which are likely to fly over listeners’ head.
But fret not, because the actual sentiment upon which this song is based is a standard one. And that would be the vocalist being smitten or ‘liking’ the addressee, all other factors be damned.
So all of the aforenoted fanciness revolves around what is being implied throughout, that the singer recognizes this lady as being less-than-ideal, arguably toxic even, from a romantic perspective. But more importantly as far as he’s concerned, being with her mitigates his loneliness and “paranoia”.
In the bridge, he chalks up such a disposition, i.e. said mitigation trumping all other concerns in his mind, to a common trait amongst us human beings, i.e. people possessing a ‘whorish’ nature which causes us to be in a constant state of want.
And yes, that is a pretty-bold statement to find in a song about falling in love with the wrong person. But as stated earlier, this isn’t your run-of-the-mill toxic-romance piece in presentation. But conclusively, what’s being put forth is still readily discernible, that the singer would rather strike up a meaningful relationship with this questionable woman than to be without her.
Release of “Yeah, I Like You”
On 1 July 2022, Goo Goo Dolls announced the impending birth of their 13th studio album which goes by the title “Chaos in Bloom”.
It was on that same date they also released the lead single from the project, “Yeah, I Like You”.
Credits
John Rzeznik wrote this alongside Gregg Wattenberg. Both of them co-produced it with Chris Szczech and Brad Fernquist.
To note, Goo Goo Dolls has officially been a two-man act since 2013, with Rzeznik holding down the brand in conjunction with fellow co-founder Robby Takac.
