"Can You Feel My Heart" is a song by British

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. Written by vocalist

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, guitarist Lee Malia and keyboardist Jordan Fish, it was produced by

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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

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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

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. It was later included as the closing track on the band's first live video album, '' Live at Wembley'', released in 2015, and is also featured on their second, 2016's '' Live at the Royal Albert Hall''. In June 2014, "Can You Feel My Heart" was featured on the soundtrack of the video game ''

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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. Speaking to

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, 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''. Vocalist Oliver Sykes confirmed this in a track-by-track feature with ''

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'', 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". 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". ''

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'' labelled "Can You Feel My Heart" as an

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song. Writing for ''

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'', Mike Hohnen described "Can You Feel My Heart" as a track which combines elements of

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and

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. Further explaining the song, Sykes explained:

Music video

The music video for "Can You Feel My Heart", directed by Richard Sidwell and Alistair Legrand, was filmed in

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and released on 16 August 2013. ''

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'', 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 doctor masks of black Plague".

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's Amy Sciaretto added that the masked people "

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'' ranked it the fifth best Bring Me the Horizon music video. As of November 2022, the music video for "Can You Feel My Heart" has over 140 million views on

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Critical reception

Multiple critics praised "Can You Feel My Heart" as a good illustration of the album, in particular the presence of

elements driven by the addition of keyboardist Jordan Fish to the band. Dean Brown of ''

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'' explained that "Where the swathes of artificial electronica on revious 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"".

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's Mike Diver noted that the track, alongside earlier single "

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", "present new, synthetic textures to the forefront of the BMTH mix". Other reviews published by

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'' identified the ''Sempiternal'' opener as a highlight of the album. ''The Guardian'' writer Dom Lawson was less positive, criticising the song's "

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swagger and overwrought synths". "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, Loudwire ranked it at number six in May 2014, and AXS named it the seventh best in May 2015. ''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". In 2019, ''

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'' ranked the song number eight on their list of the 10 greatest Bring Me the Horizon songs, and in 2022, ''

'' ranked the song number six on their list of the 20 greatest Bring Me the Horizon songs.

Commercial performance

"Can You Feel My Heart" debuted on the

at number 26 on 7 April 2013, following the release of ''Sempiternal''. 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, and spent a total of 12 weeks in the top 40. The song re-entered the chart in January 2021, and climbed back to its peak position on 22 January 2021. In the United States, the single reached number 26 on the ''

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chart and number 39 on the Hot Rock Songs chart.

In popular culture

In early 2021, the song gained popularity on the video sharing platform

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, possibly due to TikTok star Jeris Johnson remixing the song of his own accord and its users using the song for their videos. The song became widely used in various

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following its resurgence in popularity, in particular, memes featuring East-German bodybuilder and model Ernest Khalimov (also known as the "Giga

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") and "ItzMeFraz". As a result, the song was ranked number one on ''Billboards Hard Rock Streaming Songs, becoming the first song released after the year 2000 to achieve the feat. Johnson's remix caught the band's attention, with Sykes commenting "Holy shit we love this Jeris. Check ur inbox. Let's do something". The full song was released on 5 March 2021.

Track listing

Charts

Certifications

References

External links

"Can You Feel My Heart"
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