ordinary pop songs and why they're great.

Thursday, November 20, 2003

 
Am reluctant to add any further negative entries, having dispensed with Baker Street and Chain Reaction earlier. However, given that they've had their due pasting I cannot believe I've overlooked my all time worst most hated song! I was reminded of it tonight as it played, in muzak form, in a curry house. And that loathsome song is...

Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
I dislike everything this song says and stands for. That whole era of entirely unsatisfactory male/female relating. It is just so pathetic to think that any female would be flattered for one second by this song, let alone the poor long suffering cow that it was written for. "Oooh you look just like all the decades of oppression have told you you should, just for me, great. Now we're off to a party and I can rest easy knowing you look like that, then I'll get pissed and .. hey! result! you can double up as my mum (albeit a mum I'd like to fuck if I was sober), and take me home and put me to bed and tell me I'm wonderful" Good old Eric eh? What a little charmer. Gets a new "old lady" in his life and he cranks out a little number for her that reveals every reason why she should call time on the old dinosaur and his ilk.
Says something for the song that it arouses such passionate ire in me!