ordinary pop songs and why they're great.

Monday, April 07, 2003

 
So what should the next one be? It's got to be a song that I've found a reason to like. No. It's going to be "Don't Let Go" by En Vogue because the reason eludes me. I suspect that other ears hear a completely different song. A run of the mill bit of r'n'b girly tedium perhaps? But it isn't! It's really sort of over there and "other". It has no form, starts as if from nowhere, like it could be the middle or end just as well as the beginning. And then it's in these little sections that don't relate to each other. But that's precisely why it's good. Ah and it has the most wonderful line about - "If I could wear your clothes, I'd pretend I was you, And lose contro-ol". That's infatuation writ large if ever I saw it!