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Jan. 15th, 2003 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaA 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?
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?
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Date: 2003-01-15 08:55 am (UTC)Duh, sorry, Basket Case by Green Day. It's not called Paranoid at all.