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Music Notes #1096852 added September 7, 2025 at 8:03am
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Wake Me Up, by Simply Three
My final Barrel of Monkeys track is the Simply Three string cover of the famous Avicii song, Wake Me Up. I threw this in for variety, after checking and seeing that it has well over 25 million streams. It's possibly Simply Three's most well-known single.
What it Sounds Like
Simply Three use a cello, a bass, and a violin to weave an entrancing web of wordless music, tracing the path of the original EDM track while making their version truly unique. It soars at the bridge, captures the infectious hook, blends the chorus in, and draws one along on a breathtaking journey, similar to the imagery in the music video.
Personal Significance
This is the cover that introduced me to Simply Three. I remember scrolling through YouTube one evening on a scratchy WiFi signal while traveling the backwoods of Tennessee in 2018. I noticed the official music video with the thumbnail of three guys holding a cello, a giant cello and a violin on the edge of a mountain, and since I knew and liked the song I thought it would be interesting.
Boy, was it ever. It opened a whole new world of music up to me. I had never thought of myself as someone who liked classical music or violins, but show me string covers and I was enamored. I devoured S3’s covers of Counting Stars and Believer - naturally - and explored all manner of other covers of whatever pop songs I was familiar with. It taught me to look beyond the words of a song and consider the workability of the lyrical melody. Sometimes even songs I despise make great cello covers.
Wake Me Up is a song I love, of course, and it's a delight to have this version on my playlist. Which reminds me, Simply Three used to offer it as a free download on their website, I think if you signed up for their emails, so it was one of the first tracks I actually “owned” and could play offline. I've used it over the years as a bellwether for judging the capabilities of different sets of earbuds, because it features a prominent bass. I remember the first pair of Bluetooth earbuds I ever had was one I picked up off the ground in Tennessee. When I connected them for the first time, the first song I had access to was S3'S Wake Me Up. I almost fell over in amazement at how different the opening notes sounded with a proper bass. What an experience.
I hope you've enjoyed my leap into a "Invalid Item"  this month. Kudos to Jeff is Gru in #2343485  for hosting this each year. It's always fun for me to write about music.
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