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The song in the 2023 Google Plants commercial

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There is always a special feeling when a commercial manages to bring back the beauty of 80s music. You immediately sense something different in the air, and people get caught in a particular cloud of surprise. It happened again with the commercial released by Google in the summer of 2023, sharing the new features of their search function: the featured song is a classic hit by the synth-pop band Yazoo; let’s discover the single and the origin of the line “all I needed was the love you gave”.

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You can watch the 2023 Google Plants commercial here on Youtube.

The Yazoo song in the 2023 Google Plants commercial

The song featured in the 2023 Google commercial with the unknown plants is Only You by Yazoo. You can listen to it in full streaming below.

Yazoo - Only You (Official Music Video)
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Yazoo was a British synth-pop band that formed in the early 1980s. The duo consisted of two talented musicians, vocalist Alison Moyet and keyboardist Vince Clarke. They gained popularity for a short period in the early 1980s with songs like Only You, Don’t Go, Situation, and Nobody’s Diary. After that, both artists went on with different projects: Alison Moyet mainly worked as a solo artist, whereas Vince Clarke entered the English band Erasure.

Yazoo is part of the most significant music acts of the 80s, especially in the evolution of pop and electronic music. The early 80s were a unique moment in music history: the pop context started using the electronic discoveries introduced in the previous decade, giving birth to the synth-pop and electro-pop concepts. From there, pop music completely changed its face forever.

The lyrics you hear in the Google Plants commercial are the following:

Sometimes when I think of her name
When it’s only a game
And I need you

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

The song is a poetic description of an ended love relationship. The protagonist thinks back to the emotions of that love, recalling how those feelings were the only thing he needed.

Yazoo’s Only You is a perfect example of how 80s music was able to make us escape into a different world: something that rarely happens nowadays, which is why the song makes the 2023 Google commercial stand out from the other ads.

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Published by Carlo Affatigato

Carlo has been a web content creator for over 10 years. He founded Auralcrave in 2015, envisioning it as a new space capable of offering different perspectives on topics that passionate all of us. With a scientific background, Carlo developed an interest in music, cinema, literature, and art at a young age, transforming it into a complementary dimension to his professional growth. For years, he was a music journalist specializing in electronic and dance music, writing for the most important Italian magazines (both online and print). Movies and TV series have been a true obsession in many phases of his life: during university, it was not uncommon for him to set the alarm in the middle of the night to watch classic films airing on TV. With the advent of the Internet, Carlo became a keen observer of web and social phenomena, addressing light topics such as advertising, trends, fashion, and general themes. He is the main author of Auralcrave and personally manages its social media, editorial line, book publication, resource management, and business expansion. A former engineer, life coach, husband, and father, he believes that every area of knowledge has interesting stories that deserve to be told and is convinced that doing so makes the world a better place.