Joan Osbourne - One of Us
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Uploaded by divdby0 on May 18, 2007
"One of Us" is a song written by Eric Bazilian (of The Hooters) and originally released by Joan Osborne.
The song deals with various aspects of belief in God by asking questions inviting the listener to consider how they might relate to God, such as "Would you call [God's name] to his face?" or "Would you want to see [God's face] if seeing meant that you would have to believe?" The name of the song comes from the question contained in the refrain, "What if God was one of us?"
Released in March 1995 on the album Relish (produced by Rick Chertoff), it hit the top 40 in November of the same year. With this song, Osborne received one of many Grammy nominations in 1995, including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, but failed to win. One year later Prince covered the song for his 'Emancipation' LP.
Around January 1996, "One of Us" hit the top 10. Finally in March of 1996 "One of Us" climbed to #1 on Rock On The Net's ARC Weekly Top 40 and stayed there for 2 weeks. Its peak chart position on the Billboard Hot 100 was #4.
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"'cept foe the Pope, maybe, in Rome"? God-awful line!
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Today in "The Voice" the contestant Katrina Parker sang this marvelous song and was quite good actually. Hope people return to this magnificent song again and enjoy this exquisitely beautiful song.
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I'm not religious, I just like the song. My RS teacher showed it my class
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I preferred Dr Evil's version
2 weeks ago 2
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she looks a bit like portia de rossi
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if god was one of us, he wouldn't be god.
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I agree with you :)
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I'm atheist but this song rocks!
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@sonja196384 touching story still no proof because if god was real none of that would have happened in the first place. What all powerful being that loved everyone of his creations make him suffer for 2 years for?
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MissMoviefan95 7 months ago 51
I believe in God, but just because you don't, that doesn't make me hate you or even dislike you for that matter. After all, it was what I was told to do, to judge not less ye be judged. I think we could all live by that idea, whatever faith or lack of it you may have. God bless :)
cbcrog 5 months ago 6