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?

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Recently became very fond of...

[condign.livejournal.com]

Leslie Carter's 'Like Wow'. This has to be the perfect pop song, or at least Bubblegum Pop, in that it says nothing interesting with a happy-clappy beat and does so in the standard amount of time. Maybe not the best pop song, or even perfect, but perhaps... the essence of a pop song, what you get when you distill bubblegum pop down to its happy silly sticky essence?

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/shrek/likewow.htm

This, incidentally, was what inspired my recent burst of poetry.