Today's time waster

[venta]

A while ago a friend of mine said that he considered The Rubettes' Sugar Baby Love[*] to be the perfect pop song.

I'm not sure what I would suggest...

A perfect pop song would need to be short (a good example of how being too long can spoil a song can be found in Kenickie's Punka - a great song, I think, but would be so much greater if they'd had the sense to stop about half way through).

I think it wants a chorus, almost by definition. And has to be something you can dance about like a twat to, if you're so inclined. Probably something you can recognise within the first bar and a half, across a dancefloor...

Any thoughts ? Defining "pop" is, of course, left as an exercise for the reader.

[*] at least, I think he did. Richard, if you're reading, am I right?

Comments

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

When you've got the one perfect pop song, why mess with the formula? I've bought it several times over...

[triskellian]

Oh, no, I reckon she has three songs, of which one is much, much better than the others, but sadly it's the one she's only released once. One of the others is OK, but the third one, which seems to make up the vast majority of stuff she releases, is utter rubbish <sigh>