Ada fenomena menarik di daftar trending 20 YouTube Indonesia, pekan ini. Salah satu hit lawas Katy Perry, “The One That Got Away” menduduki peringkat kedua. Lagu yang ditulis Katy Perry bareng Dr. Luke dan Max Martin ini membayangi “SaWaDiKa” dari Lisa Blackpink, yang bertakhta di puncak trending. Walhasil, lirik lagu “The One That Got Away” kembali dicari.
“The One That Got Away” dirilis Capitol Records sebagai single pamungkas dari album Teenage Dream yang fenomenal. Album ketiga Katy Perry ini menempatkan lima lagu di puncak Billboard Hot 100. Dalam sejarah musik dunia, hanya ada dua album yang berhasil mengutus lima lagunya untuk merajai Billboard Hot 100.
Pertama, Bad milik Michael Jackson yang menyapa pencinta musik pada 1987. Kedua, Teenage Dream, yang dilepas Katy Perry pada Agustus 2010. Lima hit dari album Teenage Dream yang memuncaki Billboard Hot 100 yakni “California Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.,” dan “Last Friday Night (TGIF).”
Katy Perry merilis “The One That Got Away” sebagai single pada September 2011. Perfomanya di Billboard Hot 100 tak bisa dibilang buruk. Tembang ini membuka tiga besar Billboard Hot 100 dan menjadi yang paling langgeng di hati para penggemar.
Salah satu rahasia sukses “The One That Got Away” adalah lirik yang mudah terhubung ke hati banyak orang. Lagu ini mengisahkan orang yang baru menyadari betapa dalam cintanya saat perpisahan tiba. Penyesalan dan kehilangan tergambar jelas dalam lirik.
Tekstur Musik Lebih Kaya
Melansir dari berbagai sumber, “The One That Got Away” panen pujian dari kritikus musik. Kerri Mason dari Billboard menggambarkan lagu yang aslinya berjudul “In Another Life” ini dengan kata: memikat.
Lebih lanjut, Kerri Mason menilai “The One That Got Away” memiliki tekstur musikalitas lebih kaya jika dibandingkan dengan materi mana pun dalam album Katy Perry sebelumnya, One of the Boys (2008).
Penjiwaan Terdalam
Di sisi lain, majalah Spin menilai Katy Perry dalam Teenage Dream bagai cewek lepas kendali sekaligus berani dalam banyak tembang. Namun, penjiwaan terdalam Katy Perry ada di lagu “Not Like the Movies” dan “The One That Got Away.”
Teenage Dream menjadi album tersukses Katy Perry. Selain kinclong dari aspek komersial, album ini mengantar Katy Perry meraih tujuh nominasi Grammy Award. Berikut lirik lagu “The One That Got Away.”
Summer after high school, when we first met
We’d make out in your Mustang to Radiohead
And on my eighteenth birthday, we got matching tattoos
Used to steal your parents’ liquor and climb to the roof
Talked about our future like we had a clue
Never planned that one day I’d be losing you
In another life, I would be your girl
We’d keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
I was June, and you were my Johnny Cash
Never one without the other, we made a pact
Sometimes when I miss you, I put those records on, whoa
Someone said you had your tattoo removed
Saw you downtown, singing the blues
It’s time to face the music, I’m no longer your muse
But in another life, I would be your girl
We’d keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
The one
The one
The one
The one that got away
All this money can’t buy me a time machine, no
Can’t replace you with a million rings, no
I should’ve told you what you meant to me, whoa
‘Cause now I pay the price
In another life, I would be your girl
We’d keep all our promises, be us against the world
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
The one (The one)
The one (The one)
The one (The one)
In another life, I would make you stay
So I don’t have to say you were the one that got away
The one that got away
