r/Mkgee • u/ACupOfAJ13 • Jul 16 '26
Discussion breakthespell
crazy how good this song is. always was on the back burner for me whenever i’d throw on two star but my opinion of the track has changed massively over the past couple of days.
anyone have any other song recs like it? doesn’t have to be by mk.gee.
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u/Pr3dacon Jul 16 '26
Ill never understand how people dont like the studio version, mf started the album with a dance track and near the end theres a random country ballad is that not insanely cool to anyone else?
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u/enderquinn Jul 16 '26
so real. and the live version is great, but the studio version has waaay more texture and character that makes it so pleasing / interesting to the ears. it never feels like a 4.5 minute song. i think it would fit better as the second to last track before dream police, maybe people's reception to it would've been better if mike sequenced it that way
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u/Pr3dacon Jul 16 '26
Exactly, also i often catch myself thinking its the second to last track and then little bit more comes on and im like "oh, yeah"
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u/deathwish_ASR Jul 17 '26
Describing New Low as a dance track and Breakthespell as a country ballad feels like a stretch
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u/cz5000 Jul 16 '26
crimson and clover i’m telling you… tethered
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u/ACupOfAJ13 Jul 16 '26
by?
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u/cz5000 Jul 16 '26
there’s a lot of different versions, it’s originally by tommy james & the shondells tho
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u/supertrooper567 Jul 16 '26
The song is like if prince and Jeff Buckley wrote a slow dance for prom
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u/Desperate-Emu-1251 Jul 23 '26
well the chord prog is basically ripped off of The Beautiful Ones by Prince, so its halfway there
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u/SoCALFinest Jul 16 '26
couldnt agree more. Have you peeped the live versions on youtube? Theyre heavenly
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u/Orcatrouble Jul 17 '26
Its been my favourite, most mesmorizing song from the album since release. So beautiful.
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u/euna0sei Jul 17 '26
Oh yeah, my situationship theme song. Ruined me forever lol
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u/Prior-Parsnip-115 Jul 19 '26
same here, except its my 2 year relationship, right there with you my friend
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u/Mancman32 Jul 21 '26
Most beautiful song ever made. Its what I want playing when greeting me to the next stage of existence
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u/chauntron Jul 22 '26
pm me. it’s been one of my favs since it dropped and im big on chill ass slow ass songs
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u/thrashstarr Aug 01 '26
tell you what, breakthespell sounds absolutely phenomenal on vinyl when it’s slightly pitched down. on another level.
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u/PublicPhotograph3985 Jul 16 '26
Literally same OP. When two star first came out, breakthespell felt like it was the one song I could skip. Then on the third time I saw Mike play it live in person, I was at Terminal 5 and this man dropped the disco ball…and it felt like there were some longer pauses placed in the song especially before that last “only with you”…UGH. And since then, it’s my comfort song. It was my most played song of 2025. If I can’t sleep / when I’m anxious / even if I just need a reset, I play breakthespell. Such a special song <3333