Can You Feel My Heart

"Can You Feel My Heart" is a song by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon. Written by vocalist Oliver Sykes, guitarist Lee Malia and keyboardist Jordan Fish, it was produced by Terry Date and featured on the band's 2013 fourth studio album Sempiternal. The song was also released as the fourth and final single from the album on 8 October 2013, reaching number five on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart.

"Can You Feel My Heart"
Single by Bring Me the Horizon
from the album Sempiternal
Released8 October 2013 (2013-10-08)
Length3:47
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Terry Date
Bring Me the Horizon singles chronology
"Go to Hell, for Heaven's Sake"
(2013)		 "Can You Feel My Heart"
(2013)		 "Drown"
(2014)
Music video
"Can You Feel My Heart" on YouTube

Composition and lyrics

"Can You Feel My Heart" was one of the first Bring Me the Horizon songs written with keyboardist Jordan Fish, prior to his official addition to the band in 2013.[1] Speaking to Sugarscape.com, bassist Matt Kean recalled that "When we were writing this song it was the first time we kinda realised that Jordan ... was having a big impact on the writing", suggesting that it influenced the band's change in direction on the rest of Sempiternal.[1] Vocalist Oliver Sykes confirmed this in a track-by-track feature with Metal Hammer, proclaiming that "This was the turning point; it was the first one that Jordan really got his teeth into, and obviously you can hear that because it’s very heavy on the electronica".[2] The song's lyrics were written by Sykes, who has explained that it is "all about admittance, admitting you have a problem, and admitting something's wrong".[3] Writing for Music Feeds, Mike Hohnen described "Can You Feel My Heart" as a track which combines elements of electronic and hard rock.[4]

Promotion and release

The song was released in October 2013 as the fourth and final single from Sempiternal, backed with remixes of the song by Enter Shikari (under their "Shikari Sound System" alias) and electronic producer Jakwob.[5][6] It was later included as the closing track on the band's first live video album, Live at Wembley, released in 2015,[7] and is also featured on their second, 2016's Live at the Royal Albert Hall.[8] In June 2014, "Can You Feel My Heart" was featured on the soundtrack of the video game EA Sports UFC.[9]

Music video

The music video for "Can You Feel My Heart", directed by Richard Sidwell and Alistair Legrand,[10] was filmed in Los Angeles, California and released on 16 August 2013.[11] The Guardian, who premiered the video, described it as "suitably ostentatious" for the song, outlining that it "follows a distressed looking man who is chased by evil beings wearing plague doctor masks".[11] Noisecreep's Amy Sciaretto added that the masked people "[stalk] and then [perform] an exploratory procedure on an unsuspecting young gentleman who bleeds thick, black blood", extracting something from his stomach.[12] In a feature published in April 2015, Kerrang! ranked it the fifth best Bring Me the Horizon music video.[13]

Critical reception

Multiple critics praised "Can You Feel My Heart" as a good illustration of the album, in particular the presence of electronic elements driven by the addition of keyboardist Jordan Fish to the band. Dean Brown of PopMatters explained that "Where the swathes of artificial electronica on [previous album] There Is a Hell... sounded disengaged from the music, Jordan Fish's contributions here are seamlessly incorporated and audible from the bright beginnings of opener "Can You Feel My Heart"".[14] BBC Music's Mike Diver noted that the track, alongside earlier single "Sleepwalking", "present[s] new, synthetic textures to the forefront of the BMTH mix".[15] Other reviews published by AllMusic, Alternative Press and Exclaim! identified the Sempiternal opener as a highlight of the album.[16][17][18] The Guardian writer Dom Lawson was less positive, criticising the song's "dubstep swagger and overwrought synths".[19]

"Can You Feel My Heart" has also been included in several commentators' lists of the best Bring Me the Horizon songs – Alternative Press included it at number two on their list in May 2015,[20] Loudwire ranked it at number six in May 2014,[21] and AXS named it the seventh best in May 2015.[22] Metal Hammer writer Luke Morton ranked it the fifth best song by the band, highlighting it as "the point the metal game changed" due to its use of electronics, which he claimed was "the finest use of electronics ever in a BMTH song".[23]

Commercial performance

"Can You Feel My Heart" debuted on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart at number 26 on 7 April 2013, following the release of Sempiternal.[24] It later reached its peak position in the top five of the chart on 20 October, after it was released as the album's fourth and final single,[25] and spent a total of 12 weeks in the top 40.[26] In the United States, the single reached number 26 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and number 39 on the Hot Rock Songs chart.[27][28]

Track listing
Digital download
No.TitleLength
1."Can You Feel My Heart"3:48
2."Can You Feel My Heart" (Shikari Sound System remix)4:24
3."Can You Feel My Heart" (Jakwob remix)4:33
Total length:12:45
7" picture disc
No.TitleLength
1."Can You Feel My Heart"3:49
2."Can You Feel My Heart" (Shikari Sound System remix)4:26
Total length:8:15

Charts and certifications
Chart (2015) Peak
position
UK Rock & Metal Singles (OCC)[25] 5
US Hot Rock Songs (Billboard)[28] 39
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[27] 26


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[29] Silver 200,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

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References
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  4. Hohnen, Mike (20 August 2013). "Bring Me The Horizon Release Music Video For New Single 'Can You Feel My Heart'". Music Feeds. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
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  21. C., Sarai (29 May 2014). "10 Best Bring Me the Horizon Songs". Loudwire. Townsquare Media. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  22. Harris, Rey (3 May 2015). "Bring Me The Horizon's 10 best songs". AXS. Anschutz Entertainment Group. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  23. Morton, Luke (8 July 2016). "The Top 10 best Bring Me The Horizon songs". Metal Hammer. TeamRock. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  24. "07 April 2013 - 13 April 2013". Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 Archive. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  25. "20 October 2013 - 26 October 2013". Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 Archive. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  26. "29 December 2013 - 04 January 2014". Official Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 Archive. Official Charts Company. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  27. "Mainstream Rock Songs: Bring Me the Horizon - Chart History". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  28. "Hot Rock Songs: Bring Me the Horizon - Chart History". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  29. "British single certifications – Bring Me the Horizon – Can You Feel My Heart". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 5 June 2020. Select singles in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Can You Feel My Heart in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
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