Talk:How to Save a Life

Meaning
I heard on the radio it was about the lead singer's brother; anyone else hear this and have a source for that, or was the DJ making things up? Kuronue 13:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The DJ was probably referring to "Over My Head (Cable Car)", which is about Isaac Slade's brother. Teemu08 17:31, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, he must have had it mixed up, since he said it during the opening phrases of "How to save a life" that "this song is about the lead singer's brother". Ah well. I still <3 the song. Kuronue 00:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC)



The PS3 Song
There's a parody of this song on Youtube (as well as in other sites) titled "How to Kill a Brand" which pretty much bashes the PS3 console after it's launch. Does this deserve to be mentioned in the article? Vic729 13:30, October 23rd, 2007 (UTC)

Removing unsupported interpretations
Removing unsupported interpretations is absurd as this is a song that is left completely open. Interpretations are true as long as someone believes them 71.202.240.68 (talk) 00:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * If we listed every single peron's individual interpretation of this song, and others, the article would become enormous in length and would not be nice to read. Your interpretations are no more important than those of others and so they don't deserve to be there when other people's aren't. All that is irrelevant though, as what you have written has no source and is original research and no-one is going to let that stay in the article. asyndeton   talk  01:37, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:HTSAL Music Video.jpg
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Requested move 18 October 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. The consensus is that the song is the primary topic. A strong case has been made that it meets the usage criterion and no comments about the long-term significance criterion have been made, possibly because all topics of this title appear to fall under the dreaded "pop culture". Unreal7, as the proposer of this move it will be appreciated if you go through the incoming links to this article to fix any that need updating. Jenks24 (talk) 10:08, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

– Given the far greater chart success and sales figures of the song in comparison to the album (the album didn't even make the top 10 in their own country), I think this is a case similar to "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and "Blurred Lines", whereby the song is more prominent and should be the primary topic. Unreal7 (talk) 22:28, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * How to Save a Life (song) → How to Save a Life
 * How to Save a Life → How to Save a Life (album)
 * Oppose removal of (song), support addition of (album) clearly no primary topic as RM indicates: expand baseline as dab page including How to Save a Life (Grey's Anatomy), How to Save a Life (Sara Zarr novel), How to Save a Life HanVoice video, List of covers of Time magazine (2000s) etc. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:10, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Not trying to be rude here, but, judging from what I've seen both now and in previous move requests, some of your opposition reasons are a farce. Unreal7 (talk) 16:08, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. The song is the primary topic by any reasonable standard.  Calidum   13:01, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. The song is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. It received 23,596 views in the last 90 days, compared to 11,171 for the album, despite the latter being at the base name. Presumably a good number of people looking for the song came to the album on accident, meaning a change is needed to get readers where they want to go.--Cúchullain t/ c 17:18, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think In ictu oculi's reasons are farcical. It is a popular, catchy phrase to use as a title.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 04:48, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
 * But that has nothing to do with the primary topic, which is this. Unreal7 (talk) 08:24, 26 October 2015 (UTC)


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Addition to In Popular Culture
Greetings. I came across a Vine in which this song was featured. I added a short section about it. If you wish to change the citation, or remove the section entirely, feel free to. Intelleblue (talk) 01:41, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

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