Blonde Redhead - before, 2023

"one of the most sonically playful tracks on the album. With its stacked vocals by singer and multi-instrumentalist Kazu Makino, “Before” was written with the notion of reincarnation in mind, narrated from the perspective of a kid who seems to know it all"

Amanda Mair - before, 2012

"Amanda Mair is a 22-year-old singer and songwriter from Stockholm, who had her first breakthrough already in her teens in 2011."

Pet Shop Boys - before, 1996

"There's a story of a man who loved too much…" – As noted above, Neil has asserted that these words refer to U.S. former football star and actor O.J. Simpson, who—on account of being on trial for the murder of his wife—was very much in the news at the time the Boys were writing this song. They also echo the tragic hero's own epitaph for himself in Shakepeare's Othello, when he described himself as having "loved not wisely but too well."