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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Sugar Baby Love

[(Anonymous)]

I am indeed reading, and I did indeed cite that as the perfect pop song. I tried to chose just one track to give that accolade to after someone else suggested a Britney track. Though of course it's a very wide field.

And yes, I too have difficulty defining the term!

-- Richard (briefly coming out of lurk mode)