“Mad About You” by Hooverphonic

"Mad About You" led the charge for The Magnificent Tree, the third studio album from Belgium's Hooverphonic, in 2000, and it became the band's biggest hit around the world. Alex Callier wrote every word and note, produced it with Roland Herrington and mixed it himself, with Mark Ryan assisting, and the track comes dressed in sweeping strings: trip hop cut on the grand scale, with enough dramatic orchestral swell to pass for a Bond theme.

It's a song about forbidden love, and the video leans into that too. Callier later told MNM where it came from: Cathy Dennis, whom he first ran into at a 1998 songwriting camp, where the two squabbled over a fishy-tasting wine, and a wild drive through London with her that sometimes strayed into the wrong lane. Both episodes found their way into the lyrics.

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